I’m so excited!

I just joined a sew-along! How cool is that? I found Melissa’s blog recently (don’t ask me how, i have lost track) and she is having a lovely lazy days skirt sew-along. I am too excited! I already started cutting fabric for the first skirt… the first 5 of this gorgeous yummy too beautiful fabric… too me a long time to get up the courage to cut into it. It’s so great to just look at…. but that’s what fabric is for, right? to make something… what better thing than a pretty skirt….

My kids have been on vacation from school all week because it is Sukkot. We have been having a lot of fun together. Here are a few pics of our sukkah. I built it myself… ok, the pergola was there (my hubby built that),,,

our sukka

we also went up North and put our feet into the Jordan river.

ZIv

and…

Yagel

and next to us was a Druze family. The men came to fish and the women sat with their feet in the water…

fishing

and

...

and let’s not forget the cows we saw at one of the Kibbutzim in the area…

moo...

I am really excited to get my first site order! Hooray to DZ in Boston who ordered a personalized blanket!!!! So exciting! I also have another order for a boy’s hanging pockets thingy and I am working on tons of stock so that soon I will be able to sell at a craft fair…

I am tired just wrighting all that…

Have a great weekend, see you at the sew-along!

MWAH!

yummy give-away!

Lila tueller is having a give-away on her blog! CHeck it out! Isn’t it gorgoeus fabric? I would so love to win this…..

how yummny is that?

hop on over and enter too… don’t forget to tell me if you win!!! MAybe you’ll share?????

I am so loving this weather…

and my camera, and my friends… and family…

We spent Rosh Hashanah driving between friends and family, which was really great! The kids had a great time playing with friends and cousins. And I took a ton of pictures…

the sky from the car...

it felt so big…

Yagel and the olive tree

<3

sky light

fall colours

Ziv the gardner

and I love love love this pic….

orders waiting to go out...

have a great day!

MWAH!

Blessed is the One who Causes Miracles

Do you remember, ages ago (or at least that’s what it feels like) that I posted about Daniel, who was fighting cancer, and then unfortunately passed away? Well, his mother just gave birth to a healthy baby boy today! What a wonderful way to start the new year! Mazal Tov Hila! and daddy, Itai and big brother Aviad!!!!! Wishing all the best in the coming year and for many years to come!!!

Shana Tova U’Metukah!

No, I haven’t disappeared. The earth DID NOT swallow me up… just been dealing with a sick computer, which needs desperately to get to the computer doctor, but I don’t have the strength to take it (I’m sick too, lousy cold…)…

Wanted to share a whole bunch of stuff. First, my Ziv’s first project from daycare. She is in a lovely family daycare with a lovely woman called Nina. I love her! She is so calm and great with the kids, and except for the initial tears, Ziv is happy to be there…

shana tova!

The next thing I’ve got to show ya is the gift I made for my MIL’s 60th birthday… She has 6 grandchildren, aged 16.5 – 18 months.

thats my step-daughter, "holding" the banner

It’s a wall hanging. Next time, I’ll make it vertical instead of horizontal, cuz it takes up a ton of space…

I also made Ziv a bag for Daycare, which I so love…

the bag

the tutorial is from a Japanese magazine, translated into Hebrew by Ofra.

I also made a tiered skirt, based on this tutorial. It was soooo easy! You should try it!

twirly skirt

I can’t think of anything else right now…

Just to wish everyone a healthy and happy new year, filled with only good things and nachat from your loved ones….

MWAH!

i had to share…

I promise to post when the kids are back at school, or used to day care… but check them out.

brother and sister

we were at PArk Utopia today. So beautiful….

off to bed…

MWAH!

i’m pretty proud of me…

i’m not bad at csewing from a tutorial. What i sew comes out not bad at all (if I say so myself)… but I’ve never sewn from a pattern from a pattern book, where the instructions are minimal…

I have been eyeing the shorts in the Ottobre SUmmer 08 catalog for a while now. I even chose the fabric in my head… Moda’s MOMO Wonderland… and finally, I got down to business…

the front...

and…. the best part….

the back!!!!

if you dont look too closely.. its better…. lol…. i’m pretty chuffed with myself…. love the colours, the way they work together… yay!!!! yay me!!!! if I can, I will get the house model to put them on and I’ll take her pic….

Off to sew something… MWAH!!!

 

editted to add more pics…

the back

and

the model...

one more…

posing for the picture....

ok… THIS is the last one….

she posed for this.....

when the cat works, the mouse plays…

I made a cute hair clip for Ziv today. She sat on the floor colouring on a paper (or so I thought). I found the clip tutorial on the Angry Chicken blog. LOVE LOVE LOVE that girl!!!!

cheeky monkey....

yummy child…

love love love....

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

I was totally inspired by this post… and I knew that Yagel would LOVE LOVE LOVE these letters… so I set off, in between orders and stock making, to make him a set…

abc...

he LOVES them! now i want to make lower case letters so that he can learn those… think I’ll do them matching….

I have got to get back to my TODO list… AAAAAAAAAAAAH

Have a great day! MWAH!

while you were sleeping…

there’s nothing like a nap. and a long nap, even better.

Ziv napped for over 2 hours today. enough time to whip up a dress…

the naptime dress

and up close

<3

did you see the pintucks? i am so impressed with myself…. yay me!!!

:-)

after i took the pictures i added a lace trim to the bottom… even cuter now!

thats all for now! have a wonderful weekend! MWAH!