- Crafts: Crochet, Crochet Decor And Home, Crochet Flowers, Crochet With Commercial T-Shirt Yarn, Holiday: Tu B'Shevat Crafts, Recycled Yarn Crafts, Wedding Decorations
Crocheted T-Shirt Yarn Flowers In Any Size
Need a bunch of sweet crocheted flowers that will make a statement and won’t take a year to crochet? Try crocheting these simple one-round flowers using commercial t-shirt yarn (or super chunky regular yarn) and you’ll have a whole tree full of blossoms to celebrate the arrival of Spring, a wedding or engagement, or in our case, first a 3 years old birthday party this week, followed by the Jewish New Year for the trees, Tu B’Shevat, coming in a few weeks. Tu B’Shevat is generally the time when the first fruit tree, the almond tree, blooms, so crafts with pink blooms is perfect, and these crocheted flowers, now hanging…
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Paper Silhouette Installation At The National Portrait Gallery
This past summer on our museum extravaganza in Washington DC, we had the pleasure of visiting The Portrait Gallery, which yes, is portrait after portrait after portrait, but the museum occupies an adjacent attached building to the Smithsonian Museum Of American Art, so one can stay on the same floor and view exhibits from both museums, very interesting! I really enjoyed seeing the portraits of the Presidents of the USA, the new portraits of MIchelle and Barak, and a really interesting numbered series of portraits of Native Americans, just to name a few. And there happened to be a really great exhibit about silhouettes, (which were stylish before the camera…
- Adventures With Children, Israel, Israel: Nahariya, Israel: Nature, Israel: Northern, Israel: The Mediterranean Sea
Rain Clouds Over The Mediterranean In Northern Israel
My two teenage sons, 15 and 13 are attending a sleep-away Yeshiva about an hour’s drive from home, and we miss them dearly! They do come home every-other shabbat, and we try to visit now and then on weeks when they won’t be coming home. This week my 15 year old really sounded like he needed us to visit, which is rare, so I re-organized my schedule in order to visit them this afternoon. I was somewhat worried about driving in stormy weather, as visibility around our mountaintop city can be very low during rain, but fortunately there was a respite from all the wet weather we’ve been having, and…
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Acrylic Floral Painting With Pastels
Yes, it is true, a bit less crafting going on around CJM headquarters lately (though still more than anyone else I know) because I have been fighting a little war with acrylic paint and a paintbrush….and let me tell you, it is not so simple to try and realize those dreams of painting real paintings, you know the kind you’d want to hang proudly on your walls, or even sell! Apparently one has to paint 500 paintings to start mastering the paint, so I am working on paper to make it less precious, less expensive, more space friendly and hopefully quicker! My brother told me “real artists don’t worry about these…
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Hanukkah Candle Drip Art With The Leftovers!
After eight joyful nights of Hanukkah, shining light into the very darkest corners, you might just have some leftover candles? (We light our main Chanukah menorah using olive oil, but use candles for some smaller chanukiahs.) Don’t toss them, spend a few moments of pressure-free creativity, and create something with the drips. This of course is only with adult supervision, or for teens, and maybe even Mom or Dad could use a little creative time after a hectic week-plus of celebrations? (Don’t worry about me, I know how to take that time when possible, you should see my kitchen table right about now……) So instead of trying to save those…
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Monet’s Water Lilies At The National Gallery, Washington DC
I have enjoyed Monet’s Water Lilies at MOMA in NYC countless times, a HUGE tryptich, if memory serves me that occupies an entire wall, and most of a room. There is a bench allowing one to sit and enjoy. Lest I digress, I love the French Impressionist Monet, and appreciate his art even more now that I am on a little painting journey myself. This time around at the National Gallery in Washington DC I has the pleasure of seeing another of Monet’s Water Lilies paintings, this one much smaller and less abstract, and all in all just beautiful. Come, lets take a moment for a little art break, shall…
