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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday! An International Blog Party!
Dear Readers, Craft Schooling Sunday is finally international, actually and really! It's so exciting to have crafters from around the world convene on my little blog, and I hope we'll continue to span the globe, inspiring one another and learning a bit about life elsewhere. A bit of blog armchair traveling if you will! Last…
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Kid’s Crafts For Pesach: Make Some Fimo Critters From The Ten Plagues!
Aren't these critters just the cutest? My 7 1/2 year old daughter made these as a part of our Ten Plagues Seder kit! I'm actually planning to make 10 little packages from clear plastic that will contain each of the plagues. During the reading of the Hagaddah we'll pass the little packages around the table…
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Gorgeous Sunprints (Cyanotypes): So Simple & So Much Fun!
This week I promised you a series of projects celebrating leaves for Spring, so I'm really happy to share with you these projects involving nature printing using cyanotype paper. Sun printing is a great craft activity to do with kids in the Spring, and big folks can use this technique as well to create gorgeous…
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Welcome to Craft Schooling Sunday & Wishing You A Joyful Purim!
This week has been very busy with all the preparations for Purim, so time has just flown by! If you are reading this on Sunday, you can be sure that I am not on the computer, I am celebrating Purim and trying to be the hostess with the mostess to at least 40 sit-down guests,…
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Stock Up On Some Freezer Paper!
My brother and family just visited from the United States and look what they brought me! All summer I was tempted by all the freezer-paper stenciling tutorials on the internet, and couldn't try it myself! (There may be a similar product here in Israel, but since I had nothing to go by I couldn't look…
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Party Mix Recipes
Caramel Popcorn and Nuts Ingredients: 16 cups popped corn (about 3/4 cup popcorn)* 1 1/2 cups pecans 1 1/2 cups walnuts 1 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup butter or parve margarine (1 stick) 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Directions: Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place popped corn,…
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A New Job For Me + Great deals On Amy Butler & More!
Dear Readers, I love this blog, and it's a labor of the heart, but it's time to start making some income from it if possible! I would never think of trying to sell garbage, or entice you into buying something you definitely don't need, so with that in mind I've decided to become a saleswoman…
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Hamantaschen: The Traditional Purim Treat That’s Also A Parable!
For those of you unfamiliar with this traditional Jewish cookie, well let me tell you, it has a serious history!Haman was one of the evil persecuters of the Jews, whose actions are described in the Book of Esther. Taschen means pocket in Yiddish. So what do these have to do with Purim? Well the whole…
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Welcome To Craft Schooling Sunday!
Hi everyone! So glad you stopped by for my second Craft Schooling Sunday blog party! In the future I will hopefully sit back on this day and let you all do the teaching, sharing your amazing ideas from around the world. Today I'm still trying to figure out how to post a button for you…
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A Delicious Green Salad For Tu B’Shevat (Or Any Time!)
My friends over at koshereye.com just sent over this recipe that they wanted me to share with my readers. It sounds so delicious and unlike anything I'd actually post from my own kitchen, that I just couldn't resist! Ingredients: Salad: Combination of lettuces such as Butter, Bibb, Romaine ½ cup raw shelled pumpkin seeds 1…
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A Simple Project With Spices For Tu B’Shevat!
Did you ever stop to think where spices come from? Many actually come from trees, so crafting with them is certainly appropriate (and great smelling) for The New Year of The Trees! Cinnamon is the bark of a tree, star anise (shown above) is a seed pod from a tree which grows in Southeast Asia,…