Holiday: Sefirat HaOmer
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DIY Watercolor Art Journal For Counting The Omer
Sharing this with you from last year, and whoops, should have shared it with you a good week plus ago, but there is still time to jump on the “counting the Omer with art” train, so do it! I’m sharing this a bit on the late side to actually be inspired this year, that is…
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Paper Towel Tube Logs Craft
Pulled this one out of the archives because it is a keeper, and phew I actually saved a bunch of paper towel tubes during Passover. I have a bunch of little cuties coming for the Shabbos leading into L’Ag B’Omer, so I will be making some of these possibly without the colored ends to fit…
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DIY Loose-Leaf Watercolor Art Journal With Lettering, For Counting The Omer
I’m sharing this a bit on the late side to actually be inspired this year, that is to use my idea and make a loose-leaf watercolor counting the Omer art journal, but you could certainly make the journal anytime and save it for next year, or use it as a gift or for some other…
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One Stroke Watercolor Flower Petals and Leaves
Watercolor is a wonderful medium to explore as it requires minimal materials, can be done with little set up and the results can be quite beautiful. One can use large puddles of color and big brushes, or go for something more delicate……you can layer colors or create blotchy backgrounds in one go. There really are…
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Watercolor Art For Loose-Bound Art Journal Pages
Hello watercolors! It has been quite a while since I’ve touched any paint, so I decided to wade back in with baby steps by starting with watercolors, (mostly those in a tube) and then using those watercolors to make a new loose leaf art journal which I’ll be using to count the Omer, the 49…
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Watercolor Floral And Botanical Cut-Outs For Art Journals
This year as I count the 7 week Omer period, on the Jewish calendar, I’ve decided to work on two things as I create a brand new art journal dedicated to this important period of time. Can you guess what they are? Well one, yes of course is watercolor botanicals meaning leaves and florals, and…
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DIY Snake Fold Journal For Counting The Omer!
I’m re-posting this from last year because it really is a great one, and now that Passover is over it is time to get serious about counting the Omer with art! Okay, yikes, I thought I spotted this journal as I was cleaning for Passover, but now it is not where I thought I saw…
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Key Shaped Schlissel Challah From Twelve Rolls!
I’m so happy to share with you that I have completed my key shaped challah baking (an ashkenazic Jewish custom called in yiddish schlissel challah) a full day ahead of time which means there is time to share it with you! Of course that is only because I’m in Israel and Thursday, today, was Isru…
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DIY Counting The Omer Art Journal
With all the preparations for Passover, it is generally quite difficult to think about counting the Omer art projects ahead of time, but this year I actually succeeded in making a DIY art journal for daily creating according to the Omer, ahead of time! I’ll admit, it was really quite a fluke, and happened 3…
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DIY Snake Fold Art Journal From One Sheet Of Paper!
With all the preparations for Passover, it is generally quite difficult to think about counting the Omer art projects ahead of time, but this year I actually succeeded in making a DIY art journal for daily creating according to the Omer! I’ll admit, it was really quite a fluke, and happened 2 weeks ago, when…
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Simple Count The Omer Watercolor Calendar
With Passover coming up in three weeks, and the wave of super hectic preparations quickly approaching, now is a great time to get the family busy with simple and great looking Count The Omer watercolor calenders! I am reposting this from many years ago, when I did it with my kids as an art activity,…
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Counting The Omer Art Journal
I am reposting this from last year, as truly now is a great time to start thinking about a counting the Omer Art Journal! Namely set yourself up ahead of time, so that once Passover is over, you can dive in, make up for the first week (I don’t create art during the Passover holiday)…