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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, now located in a brand new home with WordPress, and wow, it feels like I’ve been living in a dark blog tunnel and didn’t even know it! This new world is full of all kinds of perks, not mention a search bar that actually works, and a navigation bar that…
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Purple Statice Blooms On The Coast In Pacifica, CA
Stunning clusters of purple statice bloom on the coast in Pacifica, California in August and the sight is truly something worth sharing with you! Most of us only know statice as a flower often added to bouquets, so seeing it growing is quite interesting. I actually spotted wild statice (also called sea lavender) growing in…
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Amazing Agave Century Plant Blooms With A 3 Story Stalk
Yes, it is true, the amazing Agave century plant blooms with a 3 story stalk, that is 9 meters tall, so and very eye catching. I couldn’t help but notice this agave Americana blooming in Pacifica, California, and it is too stunning not to share with you! As you may know, I am a gardening…
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Deliver Love With This Adorable First Birthday Ornament
Deliver love with this adorable first birthday ornament! Sometimes the cutest add-on to your first birthday decorations might be something on the subtle side, but so very sweet that is stands on its own! This toy helicopter birthday ornament was hung from my dining room chandelier, a spot usually filled with lots of decorations, and…
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Adorable 1st Birthday Cardboard Balloons Photo Backdrop!
Adorable first birthday cardboard balloons backdrop is a keeper, I still have this up even a month later! A first birthday is exciting indeed, and creating a DIY cardboard balloon backdrop is well worth the small effort, as believe me it looks great in the photos and is just downright cute! While we celebrated this…
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Wow Them With The Perfect First Birthday Smash Cake
Wow them with the perfect first birthday smash cake! During the holiday of Succot we celebrated the first birthday of a precious little one, and while I didn’t do anything even remotely resembling a smash cake for my one year olds, a grandson is of course a whole new game, and I was able to…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday
Welcome BACK to Craft Schooling Sunday! Sorry if you’ve dropped by and did not find this party over the past month, it has been a huge task moving this blog to a new platform in the middle of the Jewish holiday season, but now at long last it looks like things are up and running,…
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Stunning Sunsets Over The Ocean In Pacifica, CA
The sun is setting on the holiday of Succot, and right now as I type this we are celebrating Hoshanna Raba, the last day of the Jewish holiday of Succot, and a very very meaningful and prayer filled day. Many stay up all night, others, like the men in my family rise at around 2:30…
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Pink Mallow Blooms At The Beach In Pacifica, California
I love stalk flowers and especially the light pink mallow that blooms as a native in Israel, amidst dry golden weeds such that the pink blooms are especially stunning. On our recent trip to Pacifica, California I was especially surprised to see mallow ( actually part of a large family called Malvaceae) growing at the…
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Fun Shrinky Dink Gift Tag For Rosh HaShana
Looking for a cute last minute Rosh HaShana craft to keep the kids busy with great results, and not a lot of clean up? This is it friends, shrinky dink gift tags…… so much fun to make and a great way to delve into a creative project that can be finished in one sitting and…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! After many weeks of technical struggles, my blog is finally sitting comfortably in its new home on the web, and so I can actually invite you to this linky party once again, a very very big phew! We are currently enjoying our succah, until Tuesday…
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Rosh HaShana Cross Stitch Pattern
Rosh HaShana, The Jewish New Year is coming up on Monday night, so now is the time for small projects to honor the holiday or even to gift to friends and loved ones. This tiny Shanah Tovah cross stitch canvas is just the thing, and even if you don’t have the standard cross stitch items…
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Apples & Bees & Blossoms Cross Stitch Pattern
Every year, and for every Jewish holiday I do try to make something new, whether lately with my boy’s crafting club, or not, and this Rosh HaShana the new decorations to honor the holiday are all about, very surprisingly to me, cross stitch! I started doing some cross stitch while on vacation this summer, and…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday, thanks for joining me here! Sorry to those who dropped by last week, or rather tried to drop by only to find no blog, YIKES, the Typepad platform which hosts this blog crashed, and for a good 5 days, leaving me very worried about my content. The platform is going…
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A Visit To Sharp Park Beach In Pacifica, CA On A Foggy Summer Day
On our third visit to Pacifica, CA this August, the weather was indeed foggy much of the time, but knowing that to be the case we enjoyed it just the same! Take a look at my sunny photos of Sharp Park Beach or my post about Esplanade Beach, Pacifica to enjoy the stunning coast without…
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Pink Verbena Meets Dracaena In A Summer Planter
Summer planters filled with flowers, especially in places where there is a cold winter, are just so very very lovely! So proud of my plant loving brother (it is in the genes, apparently) for assembling this lovely example of “thriller, filler and spiller” using draecena for the thriller, impatiens for the filler and pink verbena…
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Apples In A Row Cross Stitch Pattern
Classic cross stitch embroidery is simple and satisfying (and addicting!) and a wonderful way to fill a canvas as you don’t have to fill in the entire thing by any means, like needlepoint. I’ll admit with the exception of one sampler that I made once upon a time, I was never a fan of cross…
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Simple Embroidery Floss Cards Are A Must!
Apparently embroidery is trending and I’m picking up on that somehow, as after many many years I suddenly had this urge to embroider! I gathered together the supplies to take along on our trip to the USA, and actually made a few things, with many more items created upon our return. And truly it is…
