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Gemma Sarracenia
@tippitiwichet.bsky.social
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Foraging and gardening more to increase self-reliance and protest food costs. Committing art. Keep your nutrition up, have more strength to resist!

She/they cishet. Find my articles, art, stories and more: https://tippitiwichet.wordpress.com/my-goodies/
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A long day of deep cleaning and art found me wanting soup at midnight, and I had a turnip to use and some homemade bone broth (the gelatin). Harvested leaves from daikon radish, carrot and broccoli, deadnettle. Seasoned with mustard seed, fresh pepper. Needs seaweed.

#gardening #foraging #food
Soup in a bowl, below a jiggly lump of gelatinous bone broth, on a table next to more bone broth in a tupperware container. I put several scoops in it.
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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I have this sketch from the inktober2025 prompt for starfish that I never got around to 'cause gardening and renovating the trailer, and I am delighted that I have the perfect palmstone to fidget with as I sketch, a sand dollar fossil.
The palmstone on the work in progress.
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#sunflower #bloomscrolling #photography
Sunflower against an overcast sky, with a break in the clouds illuminating it from behind.
December 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Okay I figured it out for the tree. The American persimmon is named Misty Day because of her nutritive healing properties and if you don't understand the pop culture reference, I don't know what to say but I am so sad for your streaming stuff and I get it, I got the broke too. So, now I have to name
A fully articulated Halloween skeleton in black plastic with bronze antiquing that I got for half off, so what, call him Steve?
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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My thanksgiving display has been vastly improved by my new skeletal buddy from the Halloween clearance display.
A black with gold antiquing skeleton next to a few mutant hybrid squash looking pumpkin things next to a plastic cauldron a quite round pink marshmallow looking unicorn bat sits in, next to Bob the skull and my art model wearing a carnival mask.
November 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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So my neighbors let me gank their pile of branches, used it to hold some raked leaves in place to help improve the soil conditions for spring (there's some kitchen scraps in there too) and had an idea for vine supports for the spring. In the meantime, my new row of decorative trees needs lights.
A chain link fence with raked leaves held in place under branches along the lower part, with branches placed along it to resemble saplings. Same, from the other side.
November 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Read. Share. Despair at the American Health care system. If you live in one of those other free countries where you get that shit, rejoice.

#Maga #AreWeGreatAgainYet #Murica #USA #ILiveInAShitHoleOfRegressivePolicies
Screenshot of a Mastodon post from @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party saying she's going to bed for an early day of work tomorrow, she needs tips for how to handle nurses in public health who are saying Covid is like the flu and we should all get used to it. She's so fucking exhausted from having to deal with unmasked people in health care and damn fucking right she is. She's frustrated. She feels unsafe in her work environment, daily. BECAUSE SHE IS. So then there's a bit where I reply on the end saying this needs to be said louder. So, you should share.
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Cool, found one of my favorite passages in a book. It was an audio book, I had to pause and write it down as I sat at a bus stop in my early 30s.
"Something as natural as walking consists of repeatedly setting the body off kilter. Each time we shift our weight from one foot to the other we lose our balance for a fraction of a second. We learn to walk by learning to displace ourselves without falling, and recovering our balance almost simultaneously." - Ghost Radio by Leopold Gout.
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Decided to throw up a few more gothy type artsy pics that I've been hoarding for no reason. All cc 4.0
Pig heart on a black plate with a knife, fork, glass of wine, rose with scattered petals, happy little tea light, bunch of fairy lights. Baby doll tangled in fairy lights floating in a black void (on my bathrobe). A red, red rose, dewy with its tear drops because you were so mean to it.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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My poor roomies are having to listen to my serenade as my headphones are on, but I'm convinced channeling 70s rock into my art is beneficial at the moment.
Celtic knotwork that is emerging into flames.
October 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Let this serve as an early warning. November 1st, the day of the pooka is approaching. He's been protecting you from livestock thieves all year, so he'll expect you to leave a portion of your harvest to him as his due. Otherwise, he'll trash your farm.

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A sketch in progress of a creature with rabbit ears, goat horns, a goat's beard, and a face that could be a hare or feline, with pupils shaped like a goat.
October 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Once upon a time teenage me drooled over glass corn in a science magazine. Someone was growing it, but it wouldn't be available commercially for a few years. I put it on my wishlist for when I eventually did the grow food thing. I'm now pushing 50 and finally did the thing.
#gardening
A multicolored ear of corn with white, orange, yellow, and pink to pomegranate tones on the kernels.
October 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Jealous of my neighbor's new roomate.
A skeleton that lights up dressed up in pink pajamas that say "Drink up, witches!" and has a bunch of Halloween stuff printed on the pants.
October 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Hmm. I think froggie has an eye issue. Other pics show no bulge in that eye, though it looks like something is glimmering. Well, good he has shelter then. Also explains why he was so chill with me sitting close on that side. He positions himself so he can't see me.
Grey frog with one eye possibly damaged and healed over.
October 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Found a pair of cardinals when looking in empty lots for landscaping stones the other day, they were nailed to a tree, forgotten when someone moved out. They look so cheery next to the sunflowers :). Can't wait to make the found object gargoyle to go under them.

#bloomscrolling #sunflowers
Two metal cardinals painted red perch on twigs tied to a chain link fence, behind a spray of sunflowers.
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Starting to insulate my container #garden with packed in mulch that absorbs spilled water, will break down over time and I'll keep adding to it, until I have a hill of compost I can plant herbs in. I'm also adding little habitats, and someone moved in!

#gardening #frog #treeFrog #nature #wildLife
A window box container full of wild violets, a cucamelon vine, mulch, and a tree frog surrounded by other pots and mulch. To the upper right of the window box is a clay pot I filled with leaves and a bit of curved bark that makes a cave for him to hide in, and covered with leaves. He's a chill guy who has hung around in this area I putter in frequently for over a day, and let me move the pot in while he sat there. Gray treefrog (Dryophytes versicolor), colored a light muddy tan, mottled with darker grey. When I found him yesterday, I watered him and offered him a bit of bark to hide in, and sat nearby sketching. So, today he didn't seem as nervous when I got close to move in a potential hiding spot and took some better pics (yesterday's were blurry). Same guy from the side, showing a hint of his gold eye. He let me get within a few inches for this one, and only stirred a little. He seems to understand modeling is payment for a damp, safe little habitat where he will be pampered by some weirdo in black. The container garden on this side, showing a couple of rubbermaid bins and pots with a garden gnome and a bunch of stones. One of the containers has hopniss, tomatoes, garlic, and spring onions. The other has 5 smaller containers with roses, cuttings from this summer who won't be transplanted until spring. I am filling their container with mulch, and will be draping plastic over the area. The rocks hold back the growing pile of mulch, and will help retain heat from the sun in the winter. Moss gardens soak up the moisture at the edges of the mulch hill I'm building, and I have a growing cave of sticks that will provide shelter near both cool moss and dirt, or stones that have warmed in the sun.
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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"New", my ass. I don't have to click the link to know dragons have been breeding deep in those caves, and the occasional very tiny runts have been hybridizing with lizards for millennia.
Screenshot of an article that says dragon like creatures have been seen mating at a cave in Thailand and that they are a new species.
October 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Hung out with an old friend last night, from moonrise to the wee hours of near dawn. Harvest supermoon.

#witchSky #moon #spookySeason #halloween #nature
A full moon behind a passing cloud bank, nebulous and glowing white to a dusky orange.
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Got a little vampiric buddy flying down a murky tunnel to combine two prompts.
#inktober2025 #murky #pierce #art #bat #spookySeason #halloween #humanMadeArt
Pencil sketch of a bat, digitally altered to be white lines over black with hints of blue on the bat. The tunnel is shaded with white.
October 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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As long as I'm digging in my spooky gifs, here's a self portrait.
October 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Here's another spooky season gif, without the fun gory dining suggestions.
#art #photography #spookySeason
October 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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TLDR: Here's how to cook heart.
As the family’s resident weirdo, I was the only one delighted at the thought of cooking organ meat for my dogs, and sampling it. There are still certain organs that the humans in my family aren’t anxious to try, but as soon as the scent of beef heart rose in the air, it was like a magnet drawing curious tasters who came back for seconds and thirds. You have a choice of one of two ways to cook it. The civilized method would be to slice the heart into even strips, and saute them as such. For those who love chaos and darkness, I suggest throwing the whole thing on a cast iron skillet, sear it, and then lower the heat to prevent too much char. The center will take a while to heat up, and it will bleed, bleed, bleed. Sip some red wine out of something with a skull on it, and hum your favorite horror movie theme. Turn frequently to prevent burning. It can be sliced into strips or chunks to serve. The result will be something that will delight those who love a range of textures and flavor on their meat.
October 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Made this gif when I got a pig heart for some dog food, and couldn't resist making some spooky Valentine's day pics, and a post talking about cooking to share with pets, or perhaps you want to serve your lover some blackened heart this spooky season.

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October 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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I did an #inktober2025 for #crown. Then I played with it.

#halloween #spookySeason #art
Ink and pencil sketch of a skull in a simple crown floating over a graveyard. Same, but now it's orange and purple lines over a black background, with purple smudges.
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Helloooow, here is a sunflower for you.

#sunflowers #bloomscrolling
Macro of a cheery bright sunflower against an overcast sky.
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM