May 2011

  • Recycled Styrofoam Tray Craft With Paper Mache

    Yes, you can make a gorgeous, artful and even useful tray from a recycled styrofoam meat/fish/food tray. I have a little secret to share with you all, and that is that with just a few crafty moves on your part, you canmake a stunning tray worthy of holding your fine jewelry, among other things. And how is that exactly,…

  • DIY Baby Blocks — Fun For Any Age

    DIY baby blocks aren't just for babies, especially when they're covered with interesting illustrations or even messages that you can easily apply with decoupage. I made these DIY baby blocks with recycled scrap-pile wood pieces and covered them with a few layers of paper mache before adding the paper napkin images using decoupage. Truthfully, these crafty baby…

  • Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!

      Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Great to have you back again this week, and hope you'll be as inspired as I am by all the amazing projects that the crafters out there are dreaming up! For starters, I just love this colorful necklace from minieco made from slices of colored pencils, and look at…

  • Slice of Life – Berkeley In Bloom, Gorgeous Flowering Shrubs

    As you may have figured out by now, I have actually been away from my home in Israel for the past few weeks visiting with my mother in California and now with family in New York. I feel so very fortunate to have made the visit this year in the Spring, as the show of flowering shrubs and plants everywhere…

  • Vacation Crafts- Nature Crafts With Rosebuds

    Here's another super simple vacation or any time craft, courtesy of my eight year old daughter! I'll have to admit, I was eyeing the plate of rose petals that my mother had put aside to add to her "organic" recycling bin, as they were just so lovely. And sure enough, when I got up the…

  • Recycled Paper Bag Flowers

    Believe me, there is something really interesting and beautiful about recycled paper bag flowers. Flowers made from recycled lunch bags and recycled grocery bags (like the large flower above) are wonderful, and it's especially nice to combine a few different types of recycled paper bags that may be slightly different shades of brown. And with the Jewish holiday of…

  • Vacation Crafts: Paper Lunch Bag Bird’s Nests

    Lunch bag bird's nests with modeling clay eggs are really fantastic and a great project to do on the road, since there's minimal mess and the supplies are certainly simple. I was so inspired by this original idea by Camilla over at family chic that I sat down with my kids just as soon as I spied some…

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  • Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!

    Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, and another inspiring get together! As always, it's so great to see so many new contributors from around the world, and this week I was especially happy to "see" a new face from Grenada! And I almost forgot to mention that today is the Jewish holiday of L'Ag B'Omer, so…

  • Baking Challah With Children

    Baking challah with kids is a great activity to do together in the kitchen, and a wonderful way to help them develop a love for this timeless Jewish tradition. When I bake their favorite challah recipe, there's always plenty of dough to let the kids have fun shaping little loaves which they'll proudly eat at our Shabbat table Friday…

  • Vacation Crafts- Rubber Band Balls

    Rubber band balls are great vacation crafts since they're not messy, require very few supplies and could even be made in the car! Plus rubber band balls double as a science experiment of sorts, and could be a fun gift to leave behind if you're visiting friends or family. I would love a bowl of…