This is an old design that I used for Purim cards one year and also decorated wooden and metal boxes with. This has a Canadian influence, or rather Inuit design influence. I find it cheerful and simple. For those celebrating today or tomorrow Purim Sameach!
This week in our chug we made masks. We decided to use foam for that and really they decided what they wanted to do, I just gave some suggestions. My glasses were used as a pattern for the eyes and nose and shapes were pretty much determined by the girls. I can only show you one of the masks made, because I took pictures of the girls in the masks. I thought it would be ok at the time, but I don’t feel comfortable posting those pictures as they aren’t unknown enough.
Some other mask ideas that we could have done or you could do
Adar means Purim and Purim means megilla, seuda, and mishloach manot. Mishloach Manot, of course, require containers to hold them in and that’s what this post is about. The hand made sort of course. Continue reading »
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Chodesh Tov and happy new year. Before you wonder what thats about, yesterday as I was walking with my daughter and husband a large group of people of Chinese descent walked by with Israeli flags waving. They were saying “Shalom! Happy New Year!” and handed out red envelopes with dollars inside for Chinese New Year. They were apparently an evangelical Christian group from around the world, which is certainly not unusual, but I never thought I would get a Chinese new year greeting in Israel. Toronto, most definitely, Jerusalem, not so much.
It has been crazy busy- I’m revamping a website, creating identity material for a realtor, working on some small projects (for a synagogue and others) as well as the usual things that go on. On the bencher front we have gotten our first orders for use in Chicago and Montreal and my chug (class) has been growing lately. I have alot of projects to post but I haven’t had time to post them. I also want to post some Purim related posts and will try to get to that this week.
In the meantime here is a project made by a chug participant- a siddur (prayer book) cover using felt and buttons.
In honor of Parshat Yitro here is a tutorial of how to make a great Mitzvah baby book with photos of the different pages. I did not make it- it was made by one of the girls in my class. She wanted to make something for her new nephew and we came up with this idea. We looked at lots of different childrens books. She wanted to do something for now rather than when he was older. I suggested black on white since its easier for younger children to see, and I had been saving the plastics from wipes packages to use as the crinkle inside the baby book. Continue reading »
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