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I pressed my hand against the rotting piece of tree that jutted straight up from the roots to the top of the Yoni opening.  It was damp and spongy.  It felt wrong to me.  Like a door blocking what wanted to be an opening.

I pushed on the soft wood and it gave under my flattened hand like a loose tooth.  With the slightest more pressure, it broke off under my palm.   I pulled it out of the tree, cleaning up the other loose pieces of rotting wood too.

Whensteppedped back and looked at what I had done, I knew I wanted to climp into the new space I  made.

I don’t usually mess with nature in this way.  I will prop of a small fallen tree after a windstorm, but I tend not to interfere with the natural process of the woods working her magic.

So I don’t know what it was that compelled me to dislodge this door, but once it was gone, the Yoni was too welcoming to resist.   I wanted to rest my head in the rounded opening of the tree.  The part that reminded my of the clitoris in my drawings of the Flying Vulva.

I’ve sat inside trees before.

There are a few in the woods where I walk that are big enough for me to fit into.  I like to pretend I am the tree.  To try to “see” what it sees and “feel” what it feels.

Last week I took a selfportrait under the arch of a Yoni tree, too small for me to fit into.  That’s what gave me the idea for another self portrait.

So I found a small rotting stump a few feet away and carved out a groove to set my iphone in.  Then I set the ten second timer and climbed inside the tree.  I did this again and again, hoping one of the photos would capture what I was feeling.

I wanted to be an orgainc part of the tree.

Jon posted the photo on his blog yesterday.  It was his “getting” it that helped me see that it worked just in the way I wanted it to.

Yoni Trees, with their vulva-like openings, reflect the enduring feminine power of our mother earth.

These Yoni Trees Potholders were inspired by my walk in the woods last week, and I made them different this time.  I stitched each one on a vintage linen, and cut out the opening in the tree to reveal the pink or red fabric beneath the linen.

I like the idea of putting Yoni Trees out into the world.  So with each Yoni Tree Potholder, I’m giving away one of my Yoni Tree Pins.

My Yoni Tree Potholders are for sale in my Etsy Shop.  They are $25 each + $5 shipping for one or more. You can see and buy them here. 

There is a tree in the woods where I walk that looks like a woman in a bussel skrit.  Her trunk is so heavy, rounded and thick as it goes into the earth.  She is a grounded tree.  And whenever I pass her I always stop and say hello.  Sometimes with a gentle touch, and other times by leaning against her.

I was thinking of her and the apple tree in our yard, outside my studio window,  when I made this Yoni Tree for a potholder.

I stitched a few Yoni Trees today.  I’ll make them into potholders next week and sell them in my Etsy Shop.

I stitched these and two more Yoni Trees on these linen napkins.  I was inspired by the small Yoni flower that someone hand-stitched on the napkins before me.

I have a few new pieces for sale in my Etsy Shop. One of them is my Yoni Tree button based on my Yoni Tree fabric painting.  It’s 1 3/4″x 2 3/4″ and is $3 including shipping.  Or if you buy one of my Yoni Tree Posters, I’ll send a button along with it for free.

Yoni is the Sanskrit work for vulva, vagina or womb.

You’ll  begin to see just how many of  these divine trees there are, once you become aware of them.    I just saw another Yoni tree on my walk in the woods yesterday.  The thing is, she’s right on the path I always walk, yet I never really noticed her before.  I guess I was ready to see her.

I sold my Yoni Tree potholders pretty quickly, now I’m thinking of making another inspired by her.

You can see buy my Yoni Tree buttons and posters here. 

I was looking through my stash of linens for some to make a couple of Flying Vulva Potholders and found a few of these linens with the green circle and blue decorations.  I used one of them for a Flying Vulva Potholder, but when I looked at the second empty circle, I saw a tree.

So on the two linens I had left, I stitched Yoni Trees.  I haven’t done any free motion drawing in a while and it felt good to be doing it again.

Just yesterday I got my Yoni Tree buttons (made from my Yoni Tree fabric painting) in the mail and I thought it would be nice to include one button with each potholder.  The buttons are about 1″ wide by 2″ tall.  I’ll probably sell them in my Etsy Shop, but I’ll wait till tomorrow when I can get a better picture in the daylight.

The problem with selling the buttons separately is that the shipping is usually more expensive than the button itself.  I’d have to figure out a way to mail them less expensively.   But I do like giving them away when it makes sense.

I still have to make these Yoni Trees into potholders.  But when I do I’ll sell them in my Etsy Shop, each with their own Yoni Tree Button.

Yoni is the sanskrit word for vulva, womb, vagina, the sacred place where life comes from.

I was delighted at how well my Yoni Tree fabric painting reproduced on the poster I made of it.  You can see the texture and depth of the doilie tree and the details of the goddess symbols I drew on the the old quilt background.  Even the leaf coins pop.  And the Yoni herself seems a rich and deep part of the tree.

My Yoni Tree Poster is now for sale in my Etsy Shop.  It’s 11×17″ and is $20 including shipping.  You can buy it here. 

I had a few requests from people to make my Yoni Tree fabric painting into a poster.

So yesterday asked artist and graphic designer,  Sara Kelly to help me with the dimensions and to figure out if I needed a border.  She sent me back this pdf and it seems it’s just the right size, as it is, for a 11×17″ poster.

So I put an order in for 30 posters with A&M Printers (our local printing company) and when I get them back I’ll be selling them in my Etsy Shop.  Unless prices have gone up they’ll be $20 including shipping, just like my Show Your Soul and I Am Enough Posters.

You can see and read more about my Yoni Tree fabric painting here.