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Moroccan Yellow Chicken: Simple and Delicious
Who wants to spend hours in the kitchen when there are so many other ways to spend your precious time? Well, this may not go over well but I'll admit, I DO! The many hours in the kitchen on Thursday and Friday preparing food for Shabbos is my way of honoring Shabbos, and our guests…
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Creating With Beans: Bean Mosaics!
Here’s a great craft idea for the whole family using supplies you most likely have on hand — beans! Popcorn, split peas and anything else like hard grains or seeds also come in handy to create works of art with a variety of color and texture. All you need is a surface for your design,…
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Baker’s Clay: Keeping Little Hands Busy
The best way to keep your cool on a hot summer afternoon is to make sure those little hands are busy doing something productive! It isn't always the easiest thing to come up with a new and interesting project, so once in awhile when you feel like you just want to escape, pulling some ready-made…
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Remembering Fimo!
Remember Fimo? If you have girls who love detail oriented and colorful tiny works of art, so a few blocks of Fimo and possibly an instructional book could really get them excited, and keep them busy for a good chunk of summer vacation time! There are endless possibilities, and my almost 7 year old daughter…
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Try Your Luck With Lucky Bamboo!
I'm not sure what is going on in the rest of the world, but in Israel lucky bamboo seems to be taking over the country! I even saw it for sale at the dollar store! That being said, one of the luckiest things about this plant is that unless you are downright cruel and deprive…
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In My Container Garden
I am very happy to say that I have many many interests and could never imagine not knowing what to do with some free time if I ever had any. That said, one of my true loves that I highly recommend to everyone is container gardening, or real gardening if you are lucky enough to…
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Festive Table Decorations For Your Next Party
Honoring your guests with a festive, joyful table (with minimal expense) is really quite simple if you have some confidence and a little bit of know-how, which I'll be more than happy to share with you. And the added effort is really worth it when you see the smiles on everyone's faces……. For starters you'll…
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Pickled Turnips
Ever since coming to Israel and becoming aquainted with the middle-eastern practice of home pickling all kinds of vegetables in large glass jars, I have wanted to do it myself. I dream of having jars and jars of vegetables all lined up neatly on shelves…… Not because I want to eat them really, but I…
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Contact Me
I would love to hear from you, whether with questions, comments or requests for ideas! Please write to me at: studio8@netvision.net.il Looking forward to connecting with you.
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Design Services
I am a very experienced and professional graphic designer with many years of experience in both the commercial and non-profit world. I will be posting examples of my work here shortly, but if you are in need of a graphic designer for a special project, like the style of this blog, and just can’t wait,…
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Sometimes It’s The Small Things That Count
On our recent trip to Jerusalem we went into a Judaica store to buy a tehillim for my 7 year old daughter.She is just starting to read tehillim and I wanted to buy her something of her very own to honor this wonderful milestone. Of course anyone with small children can imagine what insued deep…
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creative jewish mom club
Join the creative jewish mom club and become a member of a worldwide community of inspiring moms. Best of all there are no dues, no cakes to bake, no meetings to attend, no cookies to sell! As of this moment I really don’t know what the creative jewish mom club will do exactly,I honestly thought…
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More On Turning Four
In a previous post I revealed a photo of the teddy bear cake I somehow created by the skin of my teeth,but I have yet to show you a few details from the birthday party we had at home. The actual celebration was on Shabbos, so I don't have too many images on film, but…
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A Long Awaited Visit to the Kotel
We moved to Northern Israel from Jerusalem about 2 1/2 years ago, and the 3 youngest in our family had not seen the kotel since then, and certainly had no memories of this Holy place. Our neighbors were making a wedding for their oldest son in Jerusalem, something we couldn't miss, so we used this…
