- Crafts: Apples, Crafts: Fall, Crafts: Recycling, Gift Wrapping, Holiday: Rosh HaShana/New Years, Holiday: Succah Decor
Plastic Bottle Apples To Make For Rosh HaShana Gift Giving And Succah Decorating!
Plastic bottle apples, namely apples made from recycled plastic bottles are something I’ve been making for quite a few years. They make great little gift boxes or treat boxes, are quite simple to whip up, and everyone loves them. Not to mention that you help create awareness of recycling and minimizing waste, and, this project is at its best when no spray paint (big yuk, bad for health and environment!) is used, rather the bottle is filled with something red. While an apple is generally thought of as a symbol for Rosh HaShana, many have the custom of hanging apples in the succah, as it is a fall harvest fruit,…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! We have been experiencing an extreme heat wave, with temps expected to be as high as 107 F, which is not at all a regular occurence for us here in Northern Israel on our coolish mountaintop location. Very grateful for air conditioning right about now, as I get ready for Shabbat ( I usually write this on Friday afternoon) with the challah baking now back in my court as my teen daughter has flown the coop for school and arrived home on the bus sometime around 4 am, sooooooo, challah it will be. I am about to look…
- Crafts: Art Journal, Crafts: Drawing, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Sketchbook, Crafts: Watercolors
Sketch Flowers Over The Abstract Watercolor Landscape To Improve It!
In the last 5 or so months as I’ve upped my sketchbook game considerably, I’ve also been slowly mastering the art of fixing mistakes, as pages in a sketchbook should depict a journey, but in my case not the stumbles, I prefer to forget about those! So, while my other fixes have been via paper collage or acrylic paint, fixing a watercolor landscape that isn’t pleasing is actually a fun creative endeavor, as once you realize that the not so great watercolor sketch becomes a background for something else, ahhhh, the fun can begin. On a whim I decided to sketch a few large flowers not in proportion to the…
- Crafts: Art Journal, Crafts: Painting, Crafts: Painting and Drawing, Crafts: Sketchbook, Crafts: Watercolors
Abstract Watercolor Landscape Sketches With Pen
Last week I shared with you some very simple abstract watercolor sketches, check it out here, which are really lovely, and now I’m want to show you what to do when those sketches are not so successful! It is true you could just leave them alone, or paint over them entirely, but first, try defining some of the spaces with pen or colored pencil. I used a black waterproof pen and and white gel pen, but do experiment, as that is what a sketchbook is all about. After all my fears of messing up in my sketchbook, this week I entered a mind space where at long last I feel…
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Take A Walk In An Olive Grove In Northen Israel!
We are in the middle of an extreme heat wave which means it is even too hot at 6pm for my usual walk which takes me through a lovely old olive grove, so I thought I’d share with you some photos I took a few weeks ago on one of those end of the day walks! Come along, it will be lovely! Olive trees are native to the Mediterranean region (as well as parts of Africa and Asia) and both olive oil and olives play a great role in the Mediterranean diet. Not to mention that olive oil was the oil lit in the menorah in the Beit HaMikdash, and…
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Red Canna In Bloom
If you get excited when something blooms in your container garden, as we do, then make sure to always have plants in your life, as they bring you joy! The plant nursery is always like a “candy store” for me, and sometimes there are plants that I just can’t resist. Of course if I happen to be with my husband on any trip to the nursery I have to keep things under control, but I have a girl’s only trip planned with a friend within the next few weeks, and I may just have to treat myself a bit……and I’d say it is certainly better than buying shoes or an…
