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Gorgeous DIY Fabric Flower Table Decor For Every Occasion!
These elegant and artful stacked organza fabric flowers, (made by melting polyester organza or chiffon fabric circles with a flame), and which I posted about with a tutorial here, will make your table look just amazing! I had originally planned to use them as napkin rings, but after I found this coordinating wired floral ribbon…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! We are in the middle of celebrating Passover, so I'm just stopping by for a minute to share with you the wonderfully colorful features from last week, and to wish all of you who are celebrating Passover a wonderful 7th (and 8th) day, in which we celebrate the splitting of…
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A Return Visit To Bat Yaar—A Dude Ranch Of Sorts In Northern Israel
Oh how I love Bat Yaar, a kid friendly spot between Tsfat and Amuka, with some nice outdoor activities for the kids, and an absolutely breath taking view of the Hula Valley, and the Jordan mountain range beyond. Yes, that would be the actual country of Jordon, not your next door neighbor's child! I know…
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A Reader-Roundup Of CJM Inspired Projects!
One of the rewarding parts of running this blog is connecting with readers, and especially those who have been inspired by some of my projects to make their own versions! So while I'm celebrating Passover with my family, I thought I'd share with you some projects that readers have sent in or linked to on…
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Slice Of Life: Passover, The Chocolate Spread Holiday!
It's now Passover, and we've just finished celebrating the first day of our beloved 7 day (8 days outside of Israel) holiday. Though we eat matzo to remind us of our liberation from slavery in Egypt, we also happen to love it! The hand-made round matzos that we generally eat, arrive in very large boxes,…
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Slice Of Life: Getting Ready For Passover!
We're almost there! Tonight begins the week long holiday of Passover, and we've been working very hard preparing for this special time on the Jewish calender. The silver has been polished, (and in particular our large goblet for Eliyahu), nuts have been cracked (in our case using a hammer covered in a plastic bag!), three…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome back to another wonderful crafty get together. The projects last week were just so amazing I just had to exceed my self imposed limit for the features! I'm sure you won't mind a bit, and that you'll enjoy them all as much as I did. Thanks so much to all of you who took…
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Make Plastic Crafting Elements From Recycled Ice Cream Container Tops!
Recycled ice cream container top crafting? Why yes, and I'm just stopping by for a moment to share a little recycled crafting insight I thought of as I was about to reluctantly toss a pile of stray plastic container tops. I had them in my hand and I said to my daughter, "Wouldn't these be…
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Passover Kid’s Craft: Decorate Pillowcases For The Seder!
A super simple and fun Passover crafts for the kids: seder pillowcases! With all the fancy art supplies out there, it's really important I do believe to also incorporate some not so perfect looking crafts into the family repertoire, and to praise them. This year my three little ones will have their own custom pillow…
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Passover Kid’s Craft: A Dancing Wine Goblet Paper Chain!
A simple and cute Passover craft to decorate your home—a dancing wine goblet paper chain! You do the cutting and let the little ones do the decorating with markers or even glue and collage materials. I love the results however I must tell you that given the light-weight paper I used and the pattern I…
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Decoupage With Fruit Labels!
Yes indeed, if you save those little stickers you often find on fruit, you can use them as fun decoupage elements! These wooden boxes got a little face lift courtesy of the necessity to clean for Passover and thus remove all those little stickers from the back of one of our cabinet doors. And so…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday! Passover is just one week away, and I’m in the thick of cleaning and preparing, so honestly it’s nice to have a little crafty distraction and dream about all the things I’d love to be making right about now instead of scrubbing my house from top to bottom (well, not…
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Slice Of Life: A Fruit Label Collection From The Heart…….
As a child we used to collect the little stickers that one finds on many kinds of fruit and save them on the back of one of the kitchen cabinet doors. I do believe the point of this was to appreciate where things come from, as well as being a geography lesson of sorts.…
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Passover Kid’s Craft: The Ten Plagues Placards: Part Two!
This Passover craft for kids is just too cute and really quite simple—and after the seder kids can use them as props for playacting the story of the Jew people's trials and tribulations as slaves in Egypt. Of course they'd actually make a really cute centerpiece for a table as well, placed in large vase…
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Ten Plagues Passover Craft: Fun Placards For The Seder!
Here's a fun ten plagues Passover craft that you can make now and use at the Passover seder to create a little bit of excitement and keep the kids involved. Either you can make them as a surprise, or better yet, get the kids involved in the crafting, and they'll be even more excited. I've…
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A No-Sew Felt Afikomen Bag That’s Really An Envelope!
Here's a great passover craft to do with the kids! Add some fun to your Passover table this year with this no-sew felt afikomen bag, that's really an envelope! And this project is really simple enough that slightly older kids could do much of it themselves, while younger ones can help plan the design. I…
