Category Archives: crafts

pretty

This is the piece of artwork I was working on the week before last, a little piece of illuminated poetry. I had the most glorious time with it; waking up in the morning and bouncing out of bed going “ooh!” with anticipation, working long, long days at it because it was so delicious I didn’t […]

doodles

You know when you have a nice soft pencil and a nice fat sketchpad and your fingers just sort of run away with you? Like that.

La vie soferet

The soferet is taking a couple of days to make an enormous batch of Tefillin Barbies, with some American Girl size tefillin thrown in, just in case anyone’s interested. They’ll be on sale shortly at the soferet’s Etsy store, should you be interested. Not just yet though, I still have to go buy ribbon for […]

Reclining on couches

The first cup of wine is drunk whilst reclining This, they tell you, is because formal meals during the classical rabbinic period were conducted in the format of the classical world. Diners reclined on couches to take the Meal of Freedom, in the manner of the aristocracy of the time. Nowadays we sit up to […]

The Edible Omer Counter returns. Updated for 2010!

Back by popular demand, the Edible Omer Counter. Notable for being the only omer counter that gives you motivation to see the Omer right the way through, this one’s got chocolate. You will need: kosher-for-Pesach choccies, tissue paper, yarn, scissors, pen.* Cut squares of tissue paper. I used purple over white here (these pictures are […]

Soferet at play

Why, what would you do if you found a mangled laptop in the garbage room?