Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Making my own seed tapes!

Yoonok’s Achieving Perfect Meditation: Making my own seed tapes!


All of my happy gardening activities bring me inspiration and motivation.

This is because my main focus of gardening is to plant the seeds of Love and Peace and Healing.



I think Winter is the best season to achieve Perfect Meditation.

Winter is the time of spiritual Growth and of going deeper and deeper to hear inner voice!

Winter = inner spiritual practice!

Too cold to be outside!

This is the time to prepare our hope and our dreams while we cannot stay outside too long.

Winter is a time when we must re-evaluate what we did and what we are going to do next. We all know that Spring is around the corner!



Preparation with full of hope and dream is the main key here.



This is what I do for Achieving Perfect Meditation while making my own seed tape!



You will need:

• Seeds and your Hope & Mindfulness

• Yoga mat (or plastic table cloth)

• toilet paper

• ruler and scissors and a small paint brush

• for glue: 1 tsp all-purpose flour and 1 1/2 tsp water in a small cup (I prefer a little tiny cute cup)



This is the steps I use…but you can modify.

1. I folded toilet tissue in half and cut it up into strips about 24 inches long and 1 inch wide.

2. I laid each strip on Yoga mat. Take deep breath in~~~~~out!

3. Use ruler, I put a small dot of glue (made of flour and water) every 1 & 2 inch. I dip the paintbrush once into glue and move to dip one seed of your choice and put on the strips. (Check your seed packet to see the spacing requirement because each seeds has different preference.)

4. I left the strips on Yoga mat until the glue is completely dry.

5. When the seed tape is dry, I folded it over and store them in zipper bag.

6. When Spring comes, I will just lay my seed tapes and add soil with love and peace and healing!



One package of seed takes about one hour. This is Yoonok’s Achieving Perfect Meditation!



Making my own seeds tapes gives me a certain sense of calm. This gives me focus and serenity and brings me inspiration and motivation each time in my life.

Using own seeds tapes to plant flowers and vegetables makes sowing seeds so much easy.

Making my own seeds tapes provide me so many benefits and I would like to share with you all. So that you can make your own seeds tapes for you to decide what kinds of flowers and vegetables you want to grow.



I used seed from carrots and beets at the time of taking these pictures, but you can use almost anything if seeds are too tiny to handle.
Let's plant the seeds of Love and Respect!


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Time to root Sweet Potato Slips

Time to root Sweet Potato Slips if you are a Sweet Potato lover!


The first photo is the one I just started for Sweet Potato Slips!

The remaining photo are from last year!



We need to root Sweet Potato Slips (a sprout that is grown from a sweet potato) in a glass of water. This is so easy and simple.



1. Pick a cup or jar (or containers) of your choice

2. Go to organic grocery and find one sweet potato that will fit in your cup (Yoonok's tip--do not buy Regular sweet potato due to the high possibility of treatment).

3. Put a sweet potato tuber into water, pointy end down.

4. Place the jar (or containers) near a window or any other warm area with plenty of sun.

5. Soon you will see little slips growing from the eyes of the tuber. This is an amazing process. This is life! I guarantee you will enjoy! I so love watching little sprouts coming! To me, this is a magic!

6. Have happy sweet potato babysitting and change water once a while (once a week will be good) with the 2/3 above the water.

7. Happy waiting about 6-8 weeks.

8. Sweet Potato Slips will be ready to plant!

Once, I get enough Sweet Potato Slips, I will go over how to root Slips in order to plant in your garden!

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Rice Cake Soup for Happy New Year!

In Korean tradition, we eat rice cake soup on New Year’s day!


Rice Cake Soup is called Ddeuk-Gouk (떡국). So, this is the traditional meal!



In my childhood house, we took the shoes off before entering the house, which means it was sitting-based cultures. Each room and living room should be clean in order to walk around without shoes.



On New Year’s Day, we ate rice cake soup together and after the meal, our elders were sitting at the heated floor. We as children were told to stand up and asked to perform bowing down to the ground toward our elders. In my case, I had to perform bowing down to the ground toward my grandma and my parents.



We said, “새해 복 많이 받으세요(Saehae Bock Mani Ba Deu Eei Yo!), meaning wishing YOU good blessing (fortune) in the new year.


In return, our elders gave us steamed chestnut and dried dates as snack (hmmm...those were my favorite) and usually some cold cash-money. This cold cash-money was meant to use later, and we were asked to save them. I was told to do the same bowing to my extended family and elder neighbors…and our teachers.


So, it was my day….more bowing down the more snacks and money I got…hohoho. I was very busy bowing down on New Year’s day!

Between friends, we bow each other to have blessing exchange, which was the exprssion of respect …in this case, we need to be careful not to bump our head each other.

Today, I do bowing down to the ground toward YOU with my respect.

Thank you!


I made Brown Rice Cake Soup.

Enjoy this Virtual Brown Rice Cake Soup!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Let's use beautiful words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Let's use beautiful words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥


We have many good words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

We have many beautiful words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

We have many pretty words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

We have many gorgeous words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥



Let's use beautiful words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Let's use pretty words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Let's use gorgeous words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Let's use LOVE words!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

"re-be" •●♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ♥●•٠·

Be the Flower!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥


RE-Examine what YOU have done!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

RE-Evaluate what WE have done!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

RE-Analyze what our ancestors have done!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

RE-Check what our past has done!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

...RE-Think what our history has done!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥



Be the Change!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Be the Nature!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥

Be the NO MORE WARS!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Be the NO MORE Weapon companes!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Be the Worldwide peace!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥

Be the Flower!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Awareness is needed!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Awareness is needed!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥


Change is required!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Over Crippled World, Complaining World, and Crying World!

Be the OUT of the Box!!!!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Come out from 'In-The-Box' thinking!!!!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

...

Majority of us remain one of the following:



Ignorance-- have never gotten hold of accurate information or have a lack of information or lack of knowledge. Ignorance or apathy is one of the biggest problems in the world today. Rather than opening your mind…. chose to be the door Blindness.



Indifference—may not be the biggest problem, but it affects much more than we might think. Sometimes, we become indifferent to the needs of others…. We become indifferent to the history… Have you been feeling a little complacent lately? Have you been feeling like nothing you do is going to make a difference? Rather than choosing to have many friends and few things, we chose to have few friends and many things. We are placed in abundance of possession. Rather than much love…. chose being greedy.



Intolerance is the biggest problem in the world today over different beliefs and ideologies. Intolerant people know the other side of stories, but reject to go further. So accuracy of information is intentionally ignored. Rather than opening the door…. chose shutting the door.

I live by three S’s.

Everyday, I live by three S’s.


Live Real Slow…!!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Live Real Simple…!!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥

Live Real Smile…!!!!!♥♥☆.`❥•♪♫ ♥♥