Brompton Borders, London

Brompton Borders cultural program studies the pioneering horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll and her work influenced by the arts and craft movement. Throughout Brompton are secret gardens in odd places hoping to reflect upon the healing powers of living things as well as the importance of your thought a garden inflicts on you as opposed to its content. What a lovely exhibit!




all images and information available at bromptondesigndistrict.com

Tim Walker @ the Design Museum, London

always and forever he sparks my soul

Live Blood Analysis

Last night the boy and I attended a live blood analysis lecture in an artist's studio on Sunset & Cahuenga. Just before I had cooked up some brown jasmine rice with zucchini, brussels sprouts, yellow bell pepper, rosemary, raisins, and pine nuts. On the way there I drank my freshly brewed fresh ginger tea with a bit of honey and milk.
Mid-lecture I stopped drinking my tea. And post lecture I threw it out. And now I have a headache and a furrowed brow.

I don't really know how to begin to explain the what I witnessed last night, which itself was only a 2 hour beginning to a prehistoric process of understanding.

Essentially, we learned the effects that mental, nutritional, and environmental stresses take on our blood. And coming from the standpoint of our blood:human being soil:farmer we learned how to compare healthy individual blood cells: their shape, their movement, their transparency to unhealthy ones. It is AMAZING! Hormonal imbalances, yeast, premature aging, digestion, liver function etc all change the way a blood cell looks. And when you learn how to detect which is which (which is not hard to do...some form crystals, some roll on top of each other, some stretch to ovals, some grow spikes...it is OBVIOUS characteristic deformations) you can then see the potential/current diseases.

From there, after assessing the "terrain" of your blood, the idea is to adjust your nutrition and emotional stresses and make it as pure as possible, allowing for a stress free and there for sick free and energized lifestyle. This then relates to the whole theory of catering to homeostasis ph level of 7.365. Choosing a more alkaline diet creates healthier blood cells and muscular white cells.

I highly recommend further research if you are interested. There are ph food charts available on the Internet. I've only had green tea today(as opposed to my 4 cups of black)...without milk and honey. I don't know how much I'll be able to withstand, but being aware, and making an informed choice is usually the better policy...so why not learn a little more! Some charts even contain the food's ph levels. Lemons are +9.9 so pucker up and squeeze them over everything instead of salt!

xxxxx

STYLE: Kimberly Ovitz

I am super in love with the Kimberly Ovitz recipe. Thought I should post it since I cant stop thinking about the pants and boots. Genius thing about it is that it ain't too hard to pull off!

Up Up and Away....

I have been consistently switching back and forth between doing a lot of something or doing a lot of nothing since the holidays. Both of which equated to more behind the scenes work than usual.

I am knotting dream catchers and sewing medicine bags and studying crystal therapy and re-learning computer programming and calculating taxes and calculating prices for product and stitching cotton clouds and designing business cards and setting up photoshoots and hiking and grilling and loving and listing lb priorities and reading Tom Robbins and most importantly...thanking Laura Jane for my final logo design!!!

Though I am not yet announcing it's launch, the site is 90% complete and as part of my New Year's Resolution I am going to smile and love and appreciate the work/love that I and others have put into it (usually I tend to only appreciate the others).

Below is the final home page with logo :) HIP HIP HOORAY for WWW.LOVE-BRIANA.COM!!



love, briana