Blog Party: Craft Schooling Sunday

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! With Passover cleaning well under way given that there are just two more weeks until we need to be 100% ready, things are at the point of looking worse rather than better, which is par for the course when basically using the Passover prep as…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday and wishing you a very very joyful Purim! The holiday starts Saturday night (except in Jerusalem, where it starts Sunday night) and runs through Sunday night. I am busy prepping for the holiday, which is a huge day long party in our neighborhood, which includes gifts of food to neighbors…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for dropping by! With the very festive and crafty holiday of Purim in just one week, I must get to work on my holiday gifts for friends and neighbors, yikes! The holiday starts on Saturday night after shabbat, and the gifts, called mishloach manot (literally a sent meal) must…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Spring has sprung with wild flowers that I must get out to photograph, and lovely cool days are just the best! The very festive holiday of Purim is coming up in exactly two weeks, so time to get started with the gifts for…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! Spring has arrived here in Northern Israel, which is wonderful after a very very wet winter. While honestly the situation is very tense, not to mention very worrisome, I am grateful that I did not choose a home near the border of Lebanon, where roughly…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! We have been having huge downpours of rain, which I always love and are helping to seriously fill our Lake Tiberius (the Kinneret) to levels not seen in years, which is a good thing, as it is major source of drinking water for…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! Wishing everyone a Chodesh Tov, a good new Jewish month of Adar, which is a month filled with happiness and good things. And this year, because it is leap year, and on the Jewish lunar calendar we need to add a whole extra month to…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for stopping by! Pouring rain here in Northern Israel means lots of time indoors and maybe more time for some serious crafting? A neighbor's daughter just got engaged and funny enough asked me to crochet her a teddy bear, yikes! (Of course there is a story behind the request,…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for stopping by! Winter weather has arrived to Northern Israel with lots of rain as well, which means that the almond trees are waiting just a bit longer for their winter bloom, which marks the beginning of the cycle for all fruit trees in Israel. This year…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! This week we will be celebrating the wonderful Jewish holiday of Tu B'Shevat, which celebrates fruit bearing trees, and is often referred to as "the new year of the trees." On the holiday we enjoy a huge variety of fruits and nuts and…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! With Chanukah coming up on Thursday night I am officially very busy with the crafting, but fortunately had a bit of a head start with the crafts I posted last week, so just a few more finishing touches and the decor will be ready, then…

Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks so much for joining me here! Phew, after 6 months of wedding planning and then the pre-wedding festivities, wedding festivies and week of sheva brachot meals hosted by friends and family after the wedding, we are now moving on to the next phase of our young couple's life, which…