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Choose your path:
- Choosing a Kitchen Goddess
- List of Possible Kitchen Goddesses
- Creating a Kitchen Goddess
- The Kitchen Goddess Manifesto
Creating a Kitchen Goddess
Now that you have chosen one or more goddesses for your kitchen, how would you like to represent them? You can certainly purchase a statue of you favourite goddess and www.sacredsource.com is a good place to look. You might wish to sculpt you own out of paper mache, clay, sculpey, or fimo. Or you could make her out of bread or salt dough. Salt dough is often molded into braids and decorative objects. Here’s a recipe for salt dough:
Salt Dough:
Mix 2 cups flour, 1 cup salt, and ½ cup water together. Knead the mixture with your hands, gradually adding extra water until the dough is smooth but firm. Knead the dough on a board for 10 minutes then let it rest for 20 minutes before shaping it.
The baked dough has a warm golden hue which is attractive left undecorated. To tint the dough a single colour, add food colouring to the water before you make the dough, or knead it in once the dough is made. Create a marbled effect by twisting together two sausages of differently coloured dough and kneading them lightly.
The dough can be shaped around a mold, using any oven-proof dish, or rolled flat and then cut with a cookie cutter or around a paper template. Patterns can be impressed into the dough, and small objects, such as coins or plastic gems, can even be embedded and left during baking, as long as you are sure they are oven-proof.
Models should be baked slowly in an oven set at a low temperature (250º F) and are ready when they are completely hard all over. Alternatively, they can be left to air-dry but this will take several days. Fix any broken pieces with glue.
Once cooled, paint can be applied: watercolours can be painted directly on, but acrylic paints should be painted over an undercoat. Several coats of varnish should be applied to all pieces, painted or not, for protection from dust and damp. Acrylic varnish will dry quickly; polyurethane varnish takes longer and gives unpainted pieces a yellow glow.
In addition to goddesses, salt dough can make magnets, offering bowls, wall plaques…pretty much anything you’d like to try. Goddesses could also be made by assembling them out of nature materials (twigs, grain, moss, nuts). You could also make a corn dolly. You could make a picture out of different-coloured seeds, nuts, or pasta as well. Pictures of goddesses work well if you have limited counter space. A tarot card works nicely, a photograph, a colour photocopy from a book or even a greeting card. You could try your hand at making a collage or drawing.
You can also represent your goddess symbolically. Hestia, of course, is the goddess of the hearth, and you can use a sweet-smelling candle to represent her flame. A little loaf of bread or some stalks of wheat might represent Demeter, goddess of grain. A pretty calendar would please Anna Perenna, whose sacred wheel brings the planting and harvesting seasons each year. Use the calendar each day to record one special food you enjoyed and are particularly grateful for. And don’t forget a few coins for Lakshmi, goddess of plenty.
Above all, take time to get to know and bond with your chosen kitchen goddess. Have fun!
Source: Shayleah Greenwitch
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