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Alice and Vicky are ready + A new doll in the house

2011-09-16T01:35:00.000-07:00

Vicky is now a new girl.

she got customized by my friend natigil76 on flicker- and i am amazed!!!

i still dont have her here. shes at ilil's house after beeing photographed by her.

these pictures were taken by ilil ziv- amazing!!!!

My dear Alice finaly came back home. Here she's just walking in after a long trip. Alice has 3 new beauty marks+ custom painted eye chips+ new aye chips which i bought from ebay

what a perfect perfect doll she is!!!!!

her sleepy eye's... :-)

And this is the new family member! This girl belongs to my doughter and her name is Nadia :-)

HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY ALEX!!!!

Alexs 2 dolls up to today :-)

The only new things happening right now are:

2011-08-30T04:15:00.000-07:00

First of all, on september first its Alex's 8th birtday! She asked for another doll {good girl!}
And she wants all her dolls to have only black or dark brown hair! {again-good girl has a good taste!} :-D
So we bought this beauty "Laounging Lovely" and now we are waiting for her to arrive! can't wait!

I got these handmade cuteness in the mail a few days ago from my friend Moran. Now I need to sew her 2 surprise skirts! yey!

First picture is a sweet handmade bear hat i got from a private swap with my friend Victoria.
Bottom picture is of some stuff i bought from ebay and received recently in the mail

Since I bought Alice all ready customized, I wanted to "give" her something that will be from me, her new mommy. So I'v sent her to our frind natigil76 on flickr which is a custom artist genius. She and ilil actualy made Alice so pretty and perfect the first time. So since shes so perfect there's not much to do except she add a few beauty marks {or personality marks as she calls them :-)} and a new pair of custom handmade eye chips as seen in picture. And another bright yellow eye chips pair which I bought.
So this picture was taken by her place, Alice is enjoying her time at the spa
and shes still there... becues.... :-)

New beautiful eye chip's!

Becues Vicky is there as well! Getting full customization!

A picture I got today while working on her! WOW!! I cant wait to see her in person! But I need to wait becues I orderd a new Licca body to put insted of her original body. So I had it sent to her address so I guess I'll just wait untill her new body will arrive- hopefully soon!!!!

YEY!!!

I think that this is one of the things that make me love blythe: that there is always something new happening. A new doll, a custom work going on, a new swap, new friends, changes... you name it! Its a very much "alive" collection

Thats one of the reasons why I love it so much!

Sewing for Blythe

2011-08-29T03:13:00.001-07:00

Collecting blythe for me is a great opportunity to sew!

First thing was renewing this cute basket so I can use it for my only doll+clothes I had back then, which was Vicky.
The christmas fabric is the BEFORE
and the vintage fabric is the AFTER
Up until this basket I havent sewd any thing for over a year. I was pretty rusty :-)

Then came these skirts I had in mind of making. I still make them for sales, swaps, trades and so..

I made this for a swap, which up until this day I got nothing inreturn+ she kind of disappeard... Im pretty pissed about it now when I look at this picture :-/

The swap theme was: SPRING

Made this for another swap which was very successful! My swap partner is now a friend on flickr- she's very sweet!

The swap theme was: SUMMER

I made the rainbow dress for a challenge on flickr. The theme was: RAINBOW

and I made the B&W dress just for the funny picture :-)

More clothes and dresses Iv made

Dress made for a private swap with a driend in israel

One of my skirts and I'v fixed this overall by making is shorter

More skirts but the picture if funny so i had to add it :-)

Dress made for chocolate which is realy my doughters doll, but shes like mine lol

And Im still sewing, still swapping, more pictures will be taken soon

I cant wait for the kids to go back to school! I cant wait to realy sew! pillows,quilts, real size clothes and so..

And then came beautiful Alice!

2011-08-28T10:22:00.000-07:00

After getting Chole I wanted another one :-)
One morning I got a phone call from a friend telling me that she wants to sale this customized beauty call'd Alice and she wanted to let me know becues she rememberd that i liked her
Yes, that was true, i did love the way she looks. I remember seeing her in photos when she was a regular mango doll, I remember the pictures that came out after she got costumized by a costum artist. When I saw what she turned in to I always said that she is the most beautifull red head {or orange} that I'v ever seen! + she was all ready! costumized+ new body :-)

Here are a few pictures taken by her former mommy: Ilil Ziv

picture by: ilil ziv

A bag of good's given to me by ilil for purchasing Alice {which was my pleasure ofcource:-) }

Alice here with me, a little sad for leaving ilil. But I promised her that ill take good care of her :-)

As I said, I planed on taking good care of her so this is a dress+hat i got especially for her

isnt she perfect???

And now shes not here

Alice and Vicky are at the "spa"

getting costumized and will return soon

:-)

I WON- BIG TIME!!!!

2011-08-27T05:29:00.000-07:00

So Alex and Raz were getting each a new doll from the box! I was already paying PCM-Dawn off in payments so it didnt count :-)
I needed a new doll for my self!
One night I saw on ebay a very starnge thing! I saw this little beauty standing on 99c and less then 24 hours before the sale ends.. In the morning I saw that she was still standing on just 99c! So i waited and waited all day in front of the computer! it was such a tough day! At the end I won her for just $64!!! Now this doll is usally $220! So this was totaly a miracle and i won big time!+she is so sweet, i love her and her name is Chole :-)

Look at all the goodies they sent me in the package with her - straight from Japan!

Come play with us :-)

Chole with all her stock clothes and she has quite alot!

You are so beautiful!

chocolate and venilla

2011-08-27T04:07:00.000-07:00

It all started before summer vecation.
My husbends doughter, Raz, fell inlove with my Vicky and wanted a doll for her self :-)
Her mother decided to buy her one for the comming summer vecation and gave me the money to order one for cheap.
Buying chocolate and vanilla together is the cheapest way to go :-)
Any way our doughter Alex wanted one as well {and what ever is her's is mine!} :-D
They arrieved before PCM.. and here they are:

Come out! :-0

Sisters :-)

All together for the day before vanilla goes to her new house with Raz

By the way, chocolates neme is Chocolate

and vanillas name is Lili

Chocolate with a dress and crown made by me. The dress was made for a rainbow challenge on flickr

:-)

And then I fell in love...

2011-07-16T08:32:00.000-07:00

Looking around the web, getting to know the dolls out there..
I came a cross this beauty! Blythe PRECIOUS CANDY'S MUSHROOM or PCM
I totaly fell inlove with her, i know she wasnt such a popular doll, but to me she was a total favorite!
Her price is about 2 times highr then vicky's so i started serching for a used one and on paymants
Did i find one? :-)

Yes! I did! I came across this beauty from the UK looking for a new home LOVE

After 2 monthes she was payed off and this is her when i just got her {last week}
Her new name given by me is: DAWN

She has all kinds of used marks but i think she looks great in avery picture! plus she is going to get costumized by a costume artist soon!

PRETTY!!

This is why I love her! She is so cool!

Here she is with a dress I bought for her

My new hobby: BLYTHE

2011-07-15T00:23:00.000-07:00

Last january i bought my first blythe doll
i'v seen them around for the past few years but never thought about them, until one day it "hit" me out of no where! i NEEDED one for my self! :-)

So i serched on ebay and decides to buy "blythe very vicky" doll
For some strange reason ibought her becues i thought that she looks similar to me so i felt a tipe of "bonding" with her :-)

I calld her VICKY
{yes i know how "original" that i} LOL

VICKY'S FIRST DAY HOME

SAD.... A 28 YEAR OLD, MOTHER OF 3, STANDS INFRONT OF THE MIRROR WITH A DOLL, THINKING THEY LOOK ALIKE.... LOL

VICKY AND ME :-)

FIRST DAY OUT FOR SOME PHOTO SHOOTING +

ALL THINGS I HAD AT THAT TIME FOR HER

SAME DAY..

A PICTURE I TOOK FOR A BLYTHE ISRAELI CHALLENGE. THE THEME WAS: SPRING

{ON HEATHER ROSS OOP GORGEOUS FABRIC!}

CUTE NEW DRESS FROM A TRADE I MADE ON THE "BK"

{BLYTHE KINGDOM FORUM}

BY THIS TIME I STARTED SEWING FOR HER.

FOR ME BLYTHE AND SEWING ARE CONNECTED IN ONE GREAT HOBBY :-)

A NOTHE PIC FOR A CHALLENGE HERE IN ISRAEL. THEME: ALL FROM SAME COLOR

SKIRT MADE BY ME

DRESS MADE BY ME, DEVELOPED FROM SIMPLICITY'S PATTERNS FOR BLYTHE- HARD WORK I MUST SAY!

DRESS MADE BY ME

SKIRT MADE BY ME, SENT OUT FOR A SWAP

There is so much more to show and tell

i have more dolls and i'll post about all sewings been made around them

but i must admit- the house is calling for some sewing

and i'll start taking care of that to :-)

thanks!

Let's start with my new business

2011-07-13T15:15:00.001-07:00

Good Sewing & Crafts is the name of my business here in israel {in english ofcourse :-) }

ofcourse a fabric addict like me just couldnt do better then opening a online fabric shop of imported fabrics and sewing realated goods for israeli customers.

I love this business, its alot of fun! I am happy that i get to see and touch so many diffarent fabrics and beautiful patterns

I am building it slowly, step by step.

for reference, this is my online shop www.good-sewing.com

what do you think? all comments are welcome!

any way, now that i told you all what my new business is about :-)

{its very late} i'll come back tomorrow and write all the rest :-)

I think its time to blog again :-)

2011-07-13T15:05:00.000-07:00

God! I havent blogd for ages! I just didnt feel like bloging any more...
But now... I think I do!
So many has happend in the past year: moving to many times, opening a business in israel, starting a new hoby, the daily family life and now summer vecation for the kids!

But, I guess, this is the place to "spill" it all out :-)
My blog, My friends

Thanks!
Carmel :-)

I miss you- blog. and i miss all my blog friends

2010-10-02T04:01:00.000-07:00

I realy miss all of you.
I have no contact any more with any one. alot is going on buy even though i have a problem with keeping up with all of you who i follow as well and with all other blogs i follow- my problem is that i am following to many blogs all ready and my google reader is packed with unread posts. i unsubscribed from many blogs all ready so i can still read the ones that i realy like and there are still to many blogs in there! so i am totaly disconected from blogiversary out of israel..

becides that i'll tell you whats new over here- we havent moved yet. we will move in the middle of next week- cant wait!
i have opend a blog-store and have start to sale fabric here in israel- i hope to succeed and grow in time
also it was orens and my anniversary a few days ago but we havent done any thing speciel. i hope we will after we move.

and also- i miss you all and if any of you have a solution on how to get controll on the wild google reader again- i would be happy to hear about it

take care everyone!!!

Pictures of Tom by Alex

so long....

2010-09-10T11:05:00.000-07:00

since i last blogged...
finaly summer vecation is over and on september 1 Alex started first gread and she is doing great! and also it was her 7th birthday! i have no pictures to share, i started fogeting my camara latly...
Eli hasent started day care yet becues we are finaly going to move to a new place! yey!! after living half year in a kibbutz, sleeping in the same room with the kids we finaly found something that can work for us. so in a nother week or two we will make the big move
when we move ill share some info and pictures about that new place.

so, sorry for not blogging, i am hoping that soon i will have more time to blog and even sew!!!

Happy first birthday my sweet little TOM

2010-08-10T05:37:00.000-07:00

My third child.
So sweet!
So kind and good
Pure...
And shy

I love this baby!!! I love all of my 3 kids but today its Tom's first birthday and I wish him a happy healthy easy and beautiful life! I hope I will be able to give you all of that
We love you TOM!

My wish list from etsy!

2010-08-10T04:11:00.000-07:00

PinkNelie http://www.etsy.com/shop/PinkNelie
Is a dream japanese patern book shop- I want everything from there! but these are 4 books that i wish i had:

CUTE PETITE NEEDLE FELTING GOODS Japanese Craft Book -http://www.etsy.com/listing/53330790/cute-petite-needle-felting-goods

NEEDLE FELT WOOL CUTE MASCOTS n66 Japanese Craft Book - http://www.etsy.com/listing/50018995/needle-felt-wool-cute-mascots-n66

SUMMER DRESSES n2556 Japanese Sewing Book- http://www.etsy.com/listing/48701648/summer-dresses-n2556-japanese-sewing

OVERLOCK SEWING MACHINE BABY CLOTHES Japanese Craft Book- http://www.etsy.com/listing/49992601/overlock-sewing-machine-baby-clothes

And I love japanese fabric! And I love The Fat connection shop!

like this sweet fabric: Happy Chihuahua, Blue - Kawaii Japanese fabric(0.5yard)-
http://www.etsy.com/listing/22854240/happy-chihuahua-blue-kawaii-japanese

If you have A wish list from etsy, post about it on your blog and link back to craft gossip to: http://craftgossip.com/blog/giveaway-win-your-etsy-wishlist/2010/08/08/

AND YOU MIGHT WIN YOUR DREAM LIST!

Some more blessings

2010-08-03T14:10:00.001-07:00

I have so many new followers! yey! so I'll explain about this stitch along again

The talented gifted Amy from inspire co blog http://inspireco.blogspot.com/ started another stitch along. The first one I misst but I'v seen many beautiful pictures of it around blog land. So this time I joined in time. The stitch along is calld "counting my blessings" and she even started a new blog for it: http://countedblessingsproject.blogspot.com/

Immediately I thought that this is not quite for me. Im not in such a good time right now with my life, alot going around us and not everything is good... Plus we are talking about 100 blessings!!! Its hard to find that much blessings! So becues its hard I thought that I'll give it a try... plus it would look nice on the wall when its done.. ;-)

Up until now I havent done much, Every time I would concentrate on something that I am blesset for but its taking for ever!!

So now I found a new sistem to conquer this project. I sat and thought about all the things that can come up in my mind that I like and love and for that Im blessed of. I drew all of them and that made me free to just stitch and injoy!

So this is the drawing part- And by the way, I realy didnt find 100 things.. so there will be alot of blank blocks which is fine with me..

The sun, that shines and gives us wormth and day

Green my favorite color

For having a roof above our heads

This is god to me- Infinity, Endless. I dont feel that Im part of any religion. I was born jewish but I dont feel jewish. I simply feel humen. And for me god is everything. Its nature and the nature of all things. Since there is infinity - that is god to me. So this is just a simble for that

Music!

For my voice- I can sing! I even went to singing lessons for 6 years but Im to shy to performe

For fabric - of course... :-)

We are 3: first I was born. then my sister and them my brother. I love them very much. And we all love the color green by the way so this block is green

More fabric...

That I can doubt. If I wont doubt and ask, how will I know the truth about things?

That I can think!

For design- which I love the subject

For dreams....

For inspiratin that is every where

For winter and rain. I dont like to swet! I miss the winter

For simplicity which some times I find, some times I have...

More things we did

2010-08-03T13:32:00.000-07:00

Actually we havent done much...
But one night the kids were up until late so I took them to my sisters work. She works in a dining room in a plastic factory in the kibbutz. This is how A plastic factory looks like:

My sister at work

And the dining room... for the kids its a "good" opportunity to eat snacks and junk... unfortunately I always use that opportunity as well... and eat junk!

After that Eli had the flu. Then I got it and then Oren, my husbend so we didnt do any thing until last saturday we went to the stable in the kibbutz.

Tom was scared of the horses

Alex, she LOVES animals!!

The Dimond: Tom

Eli with a horn on his head

And at the end we were all derty from drawing with some coal we found

And the winner is......

2010-08-01T02:40:00.000-07:00

Nomber 89 is JINGEL!!!!!

Of http://justjingle.blogspot.com/

I'll be contacting you right away

CONGRATS!!!

And now- I wanted to thank all of you for your great comments! its so nice to recieve such nice comments from nice people. While reading I wanted to answer each one of you but I just dont have that time right now with the kids around me every second. But thank you all very much!

And since I now have over 100 followers, that means that I will have another giveaway in the close future

100th post and giveaway!!!

2010-07-25T21:36:00.000-07:00

Giveaway closed

Finaly!!! I was so waiting for this moment! I got these fabrics from a local shop here in Israel, for one of you.
Its 6 FQ, total of 1.5 yards! yey! I hope you like them as much as I do. I thought it might be nice to giveaway some "unknown designer fabric" away

You have 3 ways to enter:

1- leave a comment- any thing nice is nice
2-follow me
3-blog about it

I'll leave this giveaway open for a week from now- GOOD LUCK!!!

More fun! And lots of pictures!!

2010-07-25T09:01:00.001-07:00

As I said, we are going to the zoo! So we went and it was alot of fun!!!!
Here are some of many pictures we {my sister and I took}.
So before going in the actual zoo, there is a "drive through" animal- safari thing

WE LOVED IT!

Beautiful! ha?

The kids in the back..

And this is in side the zoo

Just beautiful!!!

Eli and I got the chance to ride on a camel! Eli was so sweet, and I was scared!

Its so amazing to see these beautiful animals but at the same time its shoking to see how little space they have to live in. Its terrable! These are animals that need to be able to run around, hunt- live! And they live in jail for our intertanment.... Its a crime that we ignore in order to "go out" and experiance good things with the kids. And the easy thing is to put it on the side, its hard to deal with such thoughts... I thought to my self, while I was haveing so much fun over their, that I dont want to go their again.... I dont want to take part with that. But I know my self.. I'll do the easy thing for one day, some day... and put those thoughts on the side and go again, for our intertanment.... Its sad.... very sad....

On that same sad thought, their were a few nasty nasty young guy's that were driving like crazy around in one of those golf cars for rent that they have over at the zoo. Drinking beer acting like pigs- or actualy worst then pigs- just nasty! and when we arrieved to this beautiful animal we saw a bottle of beer floating next to him, see?

And more beer..... And then I ask- who sre the animals here?

OK, but we did have some more fun...

My sister and the kids

Eli... so cute!

A unbalivable face! A very sad face.

What is that? He looks like a donky with some zebra stipes. And he was the only one from his kind. he was hanging out with those white gazell's

Kings and queens:

THE END

Next day we had Eli's pre school end of the year party. It was very nice and it was sad to say goodbuy- they are so amazing over their!

Saturday we went for a walk in the forest- I love the forest!

My love..

And thats it for now...

Now what about a giveaway?????

What have I been up to...

2010-07-20T05:02:00.000-07:00

Its summer and I have 3 kids, so there is no crafty moments in this post or at all in my life for the last monthe.

Before the end of Alex's pre school I took her out alon, with out Eli to do what ever she want's
She chose to go buy a playmobile toy, then to mecdonalds, then to the mall to eat some ice cream then to another shopping center where I broke down again and bought her a science experement kit, and 2 science books... what can i do? its educational!!!

So Alex was defenatly a typical girl, intrested in food and shopping... I wunder how she became that way.. :-)

O, and ofcorse where ever I go Tom goes with me

Alex's preschool end of the year party- soon she will start first grade! yey!!! big girl!

This is my day with Eli. We went to the museum of science. He has a Egiption costum on his head, by the way....
So I took alot of pictures so I made these colages to make it easyer to shere. Here he is next to a real army air plain

And then we went in the museum and started with this fun room for little kids with all kinds of educational interactive toys

This is for us, girls- the history of printing. I couldnt realy stand there and read about it cues I had Eli running around but some fast pictures of it

Eli looking at the insides of a working car

This room is amazing for us mommy's- its all vintage toys- amazing!

And these are things that were found some how and belongd to Elan Ramon from the Columbia space shuttle. Remember what happend? Ya, its very sad...

My name on the door. I sais "between carmel and the sea"

A cool camra... Thats fat me....

Summer vecation... the kids are now home all day long, so here they are out side playing with mud

And this was yesterday! My sister and I took the kids to this crazy fun play thing for a few hours where we all had alot of fun and after that we went to an erab resturant- it was alot of fun!

Every thing was alot of fun!!

And its not over! tomorrow we are going to the zoo and day after that is Eli's end of the year day care party.. and we still want to go to the museum of science again...

By the way this is my 98th post- soon giveaway! I cant wait!

My brother is a champion!

2010-07-20T04:50:00.000-07:00

This is my brother Ronen. He is 16 years old and he is a champion!

This was his last race, he is now nomber 4 in Israel in his age range!!!

And other times, smaller races that he won first place, seconed place, third place- always winning!

Isnt he cute?

Perfection

2010-07-20T04:37:00.000-07:00

Someone here is going to have his first birthday next monthe.... :-)

Where am I from?

2010-06-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

A little story: My dad is from the states and when he was around 20+ he came to Israel and met my mom. They moved to the states where I was born. When I was 4 my sister was born

When I was 6 we moved to Israel. I had to learn a new language meet new family, new people.

When i was 9, my dad moved back to the states, my perents got devorced

While growing up I always missed the states! I missed it so much that I never stoped talking about it and wishing with all my heart to go back there

Only once, as a 11 year old girl I flew there to visit my dad

But finaly when I was 18 I got my big chance and I moved to the stats- to my dad who then lived in vegas- a dream come true!

And believe me- I loved it! I felt so free! that no one knows me, no one looks at me. I can be my self, I can do what ever I want. If I work I'll get payed fairly. I can studdy for free- what more can I ask for?

But after 9/11 many casino dealers in vegas were layed of work, including my dad. People were just scared to fly to the stats so there wasnt inough buisness for all those vegas hotels...

later on he lost his house, car, girlfriend... so when I was 20 I moved back to Israel {pregnent by the way :-)} and I started here in Israel as a single mom until I met my husbend today

And since then, I'm here in israel {7 years have passt}

I miss the states with all my heart! Every day I wish that some day we will all move there! I even calld my kids in names that you can pronounce them in Hebrew and in English as well. See? Im getting them ready for the big move since day one in their lifes.

So what can I say? I wish, I hope that one day we will move there. That my husbend will want to and that we will find the way to do so

And world peace to!

Blessings of love and happiness

2010-06-18T11:34:00.000-07:00

Love- that we all have one another
I have my husbend and my kids and they are everything for me. We are everything for each other.
I am lucky to have all of them in my life. I cant emagine my self with out them

Even though this is not a easy time in our life-Happiness is always something we eger for
I am thankfull for seeing my kids happy, laughing
and Happy for what we have!

Oooops.... I did it again....

2010-06-18T05:04:00.000-07:00

Again..... I know.... I promist my husbemd that I wont buy any more for a few monthes...
Starting now...

But this was a rare moment! The fat quarter shop had a up to 40% sale on all lecien fabrics!
So.... YOU KNOW.... I had no choice at all!

Look at those small sweet prints..
I love them all.....

By the way, it turns out that i have been blogging over a year. M y blogiversary was on may 15th. but i didnt know at the time..

So this is my 93 post- which means that I will have a fabric giveaway on my blog at my 100th post

So sooooonnnn....

I am sick... fabricholic sick...

2010-06-10T11:25:00.001-07:00

I just want more and more!

And the terrible thing is that there are shops that know how to use sickness like mine and they tempt me with all kinds of great sales....

I cant wait to sew again!!

By the way- some of you have asked me why cant I sew: The reason is that 3 monthes ago we discoverd a swallow-hole {but not a natural one} under our rented house. It was cuesd by a sewage pipe that broke many years ago under that house and the water created a cave of water.

Any way my husbend fell with the floor and out side, total of 2 times falling. Thats how we discoverd it. So we moved that day sos to a kibbutz my mom lives in. and we are steying in a temporary apartment.

Any way, we are hoping to find a house for rent in the close future. Then I can set my sewing room back up in action! Can't wait!

A blessing for health

2010-06-10T10:43:00.000-07:00

We are all healthy and I am thankfull for it!

And I feel that I need to explain my self about the last 3 posts.

I wasn't sure if i should bring such a subject to my blog. But with every thing going on latly...

and me living here- I had to use this blog to show the truth

unfortunately most of the world doesnt know what's realy going on here and israel is blamed every time it reacts to terrorisem.

Terrorists and terrorists supporters are succeeding to manipulate the media and who ever belives that media

They hide behing humaneterion masks, all for one reason: to attack Israel. And as you all know Israel is under constent threat for years all through history

I think that all of the hate and blaming israel is a resoult of not knowing enough about whats happening here

All hate is a direct cues of egnorincy- in any subject

And I think that its importent to studdy the subject before beliving the media

Thats why I brought the 2 first movies that are showing true things and true knowlege based on true experiance

The third movie explains the flutila event in a humaristic way- which is funny to wach

so thats it...

free gaza from hamas-the truth about hamas

2010-06-10T01:37:00.000-07:00

I am useing my blog for a moment fot things that are not related to sewing and my family.

As you all know I am from Israel and I am sorry to say but the world doesnt REALY know whats going on here.

These are a few videos that show the truth

Goldstone Gaza Report: Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Ses...

2010-06-10T01:24:00.000-07:00

Flotilla Choir presents: We Con the World

2010-06-10T01:21:00.000-07:00

Second entry

2010-06-05T13:22:00.000-07:00

A skirt I made for Alex in the past

I miss sewing!!!!!!

Entring a nother contest

2010-06-05T13:16:00.000-07:00

Pillows I made out of love for every single material used here:

I just love them

By the way to enter this contest go to:

http://melissaslilaclane.blogspot.com/2010/05/trimmed-with-love-contest_31.html

My new fabric..

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Just arrieved from the FQ shop
I am so inlove! I cant wait to sew again! this is real torture!!!

Check this out

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Barb of bejeweled quilts is having a giveaway of a "accuquilt go" {or is it go accuquilt??...} hhmmm...
Any way i want it {ofcorse..} so I am blogging about it to let all of you know. And if you happend to enter the giveaway please mention that you saw it in my blog... {thanks!!}

So join in the fun! http://bejeweledquilts.blogspot.com/2010/05/accuquilt-go-giveaway-time-is-nowthe.html

Whats new?

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I finished these fruits. Now I am waiting to find the time and quilt them with white fabric, as a wall hang for my future kitchen

I changed the colors for my "counting my blessings" project

And this is a little something I won on rice babies blog: http://ricebabies-ca.blogspot.com/

beautiful blog beautiful creations!

And by the way I didnt win any thing on the sew mama sew giveaway, if any one wonderd- which is totaly fine.

And look what I found next to a garbage in the kibbutz: {not the dog, this dog is a friend of my daughter. she plays with her all day, they even talk :-) }

These beautiful chairs! What sould i do with them? pain them? or cross stitch something?

Eli got his first hair cut by me! {not that I know how to cut hair}

So sweet, now he looks like a big boy! And you can see my mom in the back

Thats me and Eli.

I cant wait to loos all this weight, I look like I'm 6 monthes pregnent for god's sake

That smile... = $1,000,000

Pictures

2010-05-31T02:16:00.000-07:00

This was another holiday vacation day. My 3 kids were home with me, and made a big mess in such a short time. So at 11:30am I started washing the dishes and all kids were watching TV {a moment of silence}. After 10 minuts I look't at them and i saw a miracle!

Eli and Tom fell a sleep! I had to take a picture! I was so happy!!!

Baby Tom- So fat So sweet!

Saturday at the pool in the kibbutz.

I love going to the pool. I even swam 30 laps 3 times last week!

I wish I had the time to do it every day....

Flowers in our temporery garden

Blessings nombers 2 3 4 5

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Oren Alex Eli Tom

They are my life!

First blessing

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First blessing is that I actualy finshed making 100 blocks! It took me a whole week!
If you want to join in, this is the place: http://countedblessingsproject.blogspot.com/

What's new- part 2

2010-05-12T10:54:00.000-07:00

I think i might have been a little more active in this past few weeks. I finaly understud that i am not going to sew with a sewing machine in the close future... I may once or twice but thats a problem to do since its stored with all my fabric... until we move to a new home.

Any way, i found this 12 step program.
I look at it as a tipe of "rehab" for sewests that fell of track, like me! So if you want to join and you might feel the same, this is a good way to start again! http://chickpeastudio.typepad.com/chickpea_sewing_studio/2010/05/sew-twelve.html

This i did not creat, i bought these fabrics cues thats a very important thing to do no matter what!

Now, if i cant sew I rather stick to what is possible at the moment and do it alot! {hopefully..}

Needle stitching and Needle felting are 2 things i love and can carry in boxes around the house...

So thats what i am doing for now.

Finally i finished this! Since 2009!! Ages ago!

And i have this sweet vitage ondori cross stitch book. And ofcorse i would want to make every thing in this book. so now its a good time to dig in

I am making the 3 fruts

2 are ready, one to go!

I also joind a stitch along group that the theme is 100 blessings in our lives.

Its calld: "counting my blessings".

To read more about it go here http://countedblessingsproject.blogspot.com/

The woman behind this stitch along is Amy from http://inspireco.blogspot.com/

This is a must must must visit blog! super talented!!!

This is the my fabric and thred that i chose for this project

And i also joind the ugly quilt contest- very funny thing!

I am not going to win, even though my quilt is the ugliest. But it was mainly fun and funny!

Thats it for now. Its 10:30pm the kids are finaly a sleep and now its time for me to stitch some more

Good night

What's new- part 1

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These are some great giveaways that I, yes I...

have won in this past half year! yey!!

I recieved this in the mail last friday- i love this tipe of mail, ofcorse...

Its from Melissa of http://melissaslilaclane.blogspot.com/ She has a great blog, go check it out!

And this is from my new blog friend Cyndi of http://bluebirdswing.blogspot.com/

One of the nices people i'v met through bloging! She is a genius when it comes to sewing a bag, highly recomended blog, MUST check her out!

The fabric was a "extra"- suprize that she sent me.... unbalivable!

This arrieved about 2 monthes ago from Amber of http://alittlebitbiased.blogspot.com/

She has a beautiful blog! and she is a amazing quilter! i wish i was!!!

And this is from the sewing dork

She has great tutorials and a exalent blog: http://sewingdork.blogspot.com/

Thats it!

I cant say no to a giveaway, right? Giveaways are great i hope to do another one my self, soon...

There was a fair

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In the kibbutz

Here's Eli

And Alex

It was hard to take pictures when they were driving

That is me...

And here they went for a ride on a horse carriage

So sweet!

Love this picture

Tom...

So sweet...

On the way back i took some pictures of every thing arround, while walking so some are out of focus

The museum

Oren was blind for a few steps... ;-)

In this kibbutz there is a river that crosses the whole kibbutz with water from the mounten

And we celebrated again

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This time in Eli's day care. Friday, a week ago

THIS QUILTE IS REALY UGLY!

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Yes! i made this ugly ugly ugly thing! i cant even call it any thing since its soooo ugly!
What was i thinking????? why did i use satin and quilting fabric together? i think that my mind was shot back then.
its just a uglty nasty thing... well, at least a few years have past and i know better.... :D

This is my part of the most ugly quilt contest at piece N quilt

please go here, and vote for me :-D :
http://piecenquilt.blogspot.com/2010/05/announcing-ugly-quilt-contest.html

Do you EQ7?

2010-04-30T08:08:00.000-07:00

Have you heard about the EQ7 yet?
If you havent you must check this out! they also have a unbalivable giveaway going on!!

http://www.doyoueq.com/blog/?p=1278

And we celebrated

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Last saturday we celebrated Eli's birthday. Now i just love it when my kids have a birthday, i feel like its my birthday to and that i also just turnd 3 or 6... it depends how old they are... Any way, i love it!

So did it very simple, out side in the great weather. Here is Mr. Birthday:

This is him smiling and shy...
cute....

Some new friends arrived first:

This is my grandma, my father and Tom

And the presents...

Alex and Raz

Alex got a playmobile piret set

And Eli got a new bike! yey!!

And a playmobile air plain

Daddy is excited as well

See?

The cake....

And that was it!

We had a great time!

And mazal tov Eli!!!

עילאי- מזל טוב מתוק!!

Happy birthday Eli

2010-04-12T02:27:00.000-07:00

Today Eli is 3 years old, unbalivable!

here are some pictures from last year, and today he is 3..
Time fly's by..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELI

WE LOVE YOU!

In the present time

2010-03-25T02:44:00.000-07:00

This is where we live right now. Its a kibbutz close to tivon, where we lived up untill now, 15 minuts drive.

Its not a permanent house. we are still looking for a diffarent place to live in. its a very comlicated situation.

But first: what is a kibbutz?
This is the wikipedia difanition:
is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises.[1] Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism. In recent decades, many kibbutzim have been privatized and changes have been made in the communal lifestyle. A member of a kibbutz is called a kibbutznik

Isnt it beautiful?

At least we will be staying here for a few monthes until we find a new home

A happy post! :-)

2010-03-25T01:40:00.000-07:00

Before any thing- i want to thank every one who wrote me and commented about our crazy setuation! i havent found the time to write and comment back but i will!!!
So thank you all so much for being such wonderfull people that can encourage even a stranger from israel.

OK friend- look what arrieved today in the mail: A package of joy from hawthorne fabrics!!
Yes!!! i had orderd this about a week ago- and its here!!! I am so happy!!! Finally some designer fabric!! Now i think i'll be ordering every monthe, i need to get my stash bigger cues one day, i will sew again. Its still one of the loves of my life!

First is a "Dance with me" charm pack

And i need to say that i always love and loved michael miller fabrics!
So i picket 3 diffarent themes from the michael miller section. Each collection is for one of my kids- i want to make a quilt for each of them, when they will have new beds in a new house, new rooms and so...

These half yards are for a quilt for Alex. I will buy some solids here in Israel

And for Eli:

And for Tom

And some random fabric for me to play with..

And this is some stuff i got this week in a store nearby:

And i am almost done with this picture for Tom:

And now i got the rest of this DMC color so i can finish this soon..

So i am happy that i manneged to cross stitch and hand sew latly, hopefully i'll find more time. i have so much more that i want and need to do and make! yey!!

what can i say....

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A week ago at 4pm while i was taking the kids out of day care my husband was walking in the second house that we are renting. {its like this one long house that is devided to 3. the begining is our house. in the middle there is a small apartment with a nice neighbor and at the end there is a nother house that we use for extra space like for my sewing room..}
Any way, luckly we all ready moved all my sewing stuff in to the house. and while my husband was still moving other stuff, he fell down with the flore in to this hole:

After that he went to the house, calld me up telling me what happend. I thought he was joking!
Then he took the baby, shocked from what had happend, and stood out side looking in and then again the flore collapsed under his feet in to a bigger and dipper hole. And some how he manneged to role tom on the side walk before falling in to that hole filld with stinky water.Nothing happend to any one of them, but that day we all had to leave our homes in that "block"
So now we are kind of "homeless". we moved in to my moms kibbutz for now
and we are serching for ways and opthions to restore our lives. the kids havent been going to day care since then, its been very hard to move from one place to a nother. everything that was stable in our lives has been broken. so now it feels like we need to build everything back again..
we still have our stuff but with no where yet to go... so we are living with bags of clothes and bags of food, sleeping on matress in a one and a half bedroom apartment in a kibbutz.....

Since then the holes got bigger....

We are still shoked......

What can i say? life can get realy realy crazy some times....

and all i wanted was to sew.....

Geting closer...

2010-02-26T02:33:00.000-08:00

Geting closer to sewing

My sewing stuff is back in the house. Now i need to get things orgenized.

Love.....

All fabric is folded up... i love my fabric..

i need more of it but i love my fabric

i cant wait to get some sewing done!!

aida, organza and other tipes of fabric

cute sweet closet- but needs a make over

and it will, one day...

cotten, flanel, felt-all the good stuf..

My cotten fabric= LOVE

Today is PURIM

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A family of animals!!

Eli is a white poodle- so sweet!

And Alex is a frog!! how cute is that?

Tom is a beautiful green dragon

They are so cute! i love them all!!!

spring in february

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While i was sleeping...

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They took my camera...

I cant take it!

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I love babies!
I love my babies!
I love Tom!
I want to eat him!!!- Thats it!!!

PERFECT PERFECT BABY

I cant wait to get my sewing room back in the house!

2010-02-15T00:07:00.000-08:00

My sewing room is in a house that is out side of our house.
i cant wait to moove it back in here! its all taking time beacues of the work that we are doing on the house, little by little...

while my husbend was fixing the wall i did this:
i need to practice on quilting so i want to make many small quilts to hang on a wall one next to each other. and its a great way to practice!

Since my sewing room is not in my house yet i cant sew becuse of tom being with me all the time! so as usall i have been going throgh my google reader every day, looking at so many beautiful blogs, getting inspired, and joining giveaways. This is from a giveaway that i won over rosebud quilts by lovely michelle. {i even won this exactly on my birthday! yey!!}

http://rosebudquilting.blogspot.com/

Michelle is a genios quilter! look in her blog and you will see her beautiful work and family!

thank you michelle!!

Now i am waiting and hoping that my sewing room will moove back fast!! I am inlove!!

And a nother big reason why i need to sew: for tom and the kids!!

look what he did!

2010-02-14T23:33:00.001-08:00

We live in a rented house. Now, hear in israel its very commen that the houses are old and need alot of work! but many owners who rent the houses or appartment dont want to fix any thing- they only want the rent money!
Here, in israel, alot of laws dont make any sense or no one does what the law says cues the police and the cort of law are to week. this is a very hard country to live in! Its always nice to visit here but not to stay and live. I cant wait to leave this country, one day...

So our house was 2 small for the 5 of us. so my husbend closed the porch by building wooden walls- but wait! he is not done yet! we still need to paint the walls around it and the red painted bricks also need to be painted- all in white.
and then he took a wall down! and this is how it looked for a while... we realy sufferd from it. it is so hard to live in a ugly house.

Next step: over a week ago my husbend workd 2 days on this. and our house was so derty. every day i had to clean every thing up again and wash the floor. but it already was better then before

The end of the nightmear: the wall is fixed and painted! there is still much to do in the porch, in the roof in the kitchen.. the floor....

i will show you all, at the end the before and after pictures

Now can you belive the the house owner calld us up and wanted to rais our rent??? after fixing his house for free, making it better and bigger- he wants more money!

this week he will come over, see what we have done and i will have a seriose conversation with him. now i want him to fix everything around... will see how it goes....

See? in israel you need to be tough. cues if your not then you unfortanatly lose. if you are innocent like we are then you get stepd on and used. that is about what we go through in our lives here in israel. every one bargens on everything, other wise they lose.

its a very tiring life....

Did i say that i cant wait to get out of here?

my 3 boys

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Winners!!!

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I am a every day winner for having this baby next to me! I love him!!!

And now- the giveaway:

First prize goes to: #7 dragonfrye!!! and yes!!! ofcorse you can enter! i will ship any where in the world! i hope you will injoy your packege!!

Second prize goes to: #10 bubbachenille!!! i am so happy that you came all along from australia to my giveaway! hope you like the baby pink prize!

and third place is: #14 my childs diary!!! i will be so happy to give your sweet son the bag! he is

the cutes! and yes- i do think from reading your blog that you are a super mother! well done!!

i will be contacting all of you in the morning.

thanks for entering my giveaway!

good luck and take care!

2 new shelfs in the house

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There is so much work that needs to be done in our house so its taking little by little. At the end i will share the "before" and "after" pictures.
For the last few weeks i'v been going through many box's that we had. I am getting rid of lots of crap, thank god! and i am going to use what ever i like.

So this is obove the couch:

And this is above toms dresser:

What do you think??

My birthday- giveaway

2010-01-24T12:14:00.000-08:00

So to day is my birthday! The 24th of january!!
And i am 27!!! Unbalivable!!

As you all know i am very not prodoctive latly so i dont have any thing NEW to give. but every thing is new in the way that it has never been used. exept the cross stitch book- but its in great condetion!

Lets see what i have to offer:

1} A felt bag i made, with 4 FQ and a great cross stitch book that shows the arabic cross stitch style. it also has many patterns to choose from and make by your self {i have 2 books! one for me and one for you!}

2} A felt bag, a felt lamb and three shapes- all for a baby girl

3} A nother felt bag.

So just sign up, open to everyone!

Giveaway will stay open until the 30th

GOOD LUCK!!!

Here it is:

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I am so happy for the SMS giveaways that went on the last time! not only becues of wining a few but also for getting to know new blogs and new people. Like Fiona from the super great blog:
http://tablecalender.blogspot.com/
Every thing she maks is beautiful! even her brownish moffins!

So i am happy that i got to know her. this is what i won from her SMS giveaway.

Thanks Fiona!!

Posting with pain

2010-01-17T03:02:00.000-08:00

The last few weeks have been full of viroses, hospitals, feavers and now some stiches to add to it.
And im not talking about the pretty colorful stiches that we all like doing by our selfs...

So first of all i am sorry for not writing any thing here. Sorry for not creating anything at all and posting about it. And i am sorry for not reaturning emails to the ones that i was in a middle of a conversation with.

So this is what was going on in my life latly: Tom had fever for 2 days, Then when he was better, Eli got very sick. just throwing up and everyting.. he was hospetalized for 3 days and he had some kind of a nasty viros. he lost over a kilo from his wight {that is almost 10% of his wight!} and there for he stayd home for the past week. today he went back to day care! yey!!
But then last thursday i hade a appointment at the dentist... WHY?? to take a wisdom tooth out!!
HHHHHAAA... i know that for some its a easy thing to do. but mine took over 40 minuts and with 3 stiches in my mouth... i can hardly talk... but i think that i may have lost a few kilos!! HA!
and next month i will go through this again! on the other side of my mouthe...
Seriosly- i hate it!

But hey! i won some giveaways latly! and that i must share!

Eli before getting sick. Who took these amazing pictures???? ALEX!

This is how winter looks in israel. Not very cold. Some rain, once in a few days or even weeks...

The one and only: My Alex..

And giveaways! This is a giveaway that i won back at october. and it arrieved at november. This is a great pattern book that i won over sparkbarks blog. http://www.sparkbark.com/

You should realy go chek her out! she has a lovely blog! thanks Liz!!

And this amazing throw is from Elizabeth from http://www.lifeworththeliving.com/

Elizabeth is a amazing person- She is very very nice! its obvios from her e mails. And i won this giveaway at the last sewmamasew giveaways

Igot very lucky- cues its not the only giveawy that i won at the sewmamasew giveaways

I also won this super great giveaway from lovely Nathalia from http://www.liaspace.com/

also from the SMS giveaways.

Now that is a blog to follow. every post is beautiful! and she has great tutorials!

Whats in the bag??

Fabric!!! i cant wait to use it! its perfect for 2 boys and one girl!!!

thanks alot lia!!!

And this is a very special giveaway and blog to learn from. "the green bag lady" who gave away 100 bags to reduce the use of plastic bags. Also from the SMS giveaways

And it came with fabric to make a nother bag and giveaway. i will do that and add some stuff to it and do a giveawawy here.

look!!

And while runing back and forth from the hospital i got an e mail from christy from : http://sweettidings.blogspot.com/

i loove this blog! i always follow her! and i won a giveaway! thanks!!!

This is not it. there is one more giveaway that i won at the SMS giveaways
but somehow the picture didnt come up in this post. so stay tuned...

Back to 2009- my best creation!

2010-01-03T04:21:00.000-08:00

I must say this: I might not be so active here and i might hardly be creating any thing latly....

But even though, i still had one, big, great and one of a kind creation this last year :

TOM

So i realy hope to get back on track, there is soooo much that i want to sew and creat! every day i think about it... but where did the time go?

Happy new year!

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Happy season, every one!

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Happy happy happy...

My favorite wall in the house

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In our house there is much to fix and work on
But thereis one wall that i realy like!
This is the wall above Eli's bed- i just love the art work!

This is a hand sewd quilt that was made by a friend of my mom's

And this was made by me for Eli before he was born, while being pregnant

Whats new?

2009-12-08T13:46:00.000-08:00

This is what i am working on:

Its for Tom, ofcorse...

Cross stitch patches that were made for a swap

A bird mobile that was made for a swap

A mobile for.... i dont know yet...

3 soft toys for my 3 kids:

The one with the red body + tree = for Tom

The one with the yellow body + tree = for Eli

And the last one is for my dear Alex

They are all for my dearest dears!

Just a little some thing from mommy..

And this is one of the crafts i have done with alex and eli latly

And some of this is new to!!

The stroller is not new
But the baby carrier and the standing bord { all conected to the stroller}, is new!!

It beautiful!!!!

{Thanks to someone that had something to do with the sroller}

He is resting.....

And the winner is:

2009-12-06T04:37:00.000-08:00

This was so much fun!
I just want to thank every one who enterd my giveaway and for all the great comments all of you left here.
Its so much fun to read what all of you are planing for the holidays!
And i want to wish everyone a happy and safe holiday season!!

Thanks for becoming followers of my blog!
Its such a good feeling to see that i am not only writing for my self...
I wish i could give all of you something!
So i will have some more giveaways very soon!

So now, the winner is nomber 57, chosen by random.org {but i have no idea how to copy the result}

Nomber 57 is: Megan! from 'Ducks in a row'- blog http://fowlsinglefile.blogspot.com/

Congrats Megan!!!
I will be contacting you soon

Thanks every one!!!!

Happy giveaway day!

2009-12-01T23:04:00.000-08:00

GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

Giveaways are so great! right? Dont you just love them? I think everyone loves them!
So first of all i want to thank 'sew mama sew' for making this all happend for everyone of us.
And second- i want to wish all of you happy holidays!

This is what i am giving away to one lucky winner:

All you need to do is follow the rules:

For one entrence, please become a follower and tell me about that and about your plans for the holidays {=1}

For a second please blog about my giveaway and come back here telling me that you did with a link of what you did. {=1}

So there are 2 ways you can win!

I live in israel so ofcorse i'll ship internationaly

The giveaway ends at december 6th and i'll anounce the winer on the following day

Good luck!!!

wow! non stop giveaways!

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I think this says it all: Go here to take part: http://sew-fantastic.blogspot.com/

And good lock!!!!

Dont forget about my giveaway tommorow!!

A very special giveaway is coming up!

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But the giveaway is open only for israel residents- BUT everyone can stop by PETIT KITCHEN'S web site to see what its all about, and i promise, its worth it!
http://www.petitkitchen.co.il/

לכל קוראי העברית- יש הגרלה שלא מהעולם הזה

עופרה המקסימה והמוכשרת, האחת והיחידה, בעלת המותג מטבחי פטיט, חוגגת את מכירת המטבח ה 100 שלה

כל הכבוד לעופרה, מי יתן ותמישיכי כך! את בהחלט להיט

לכבוד החגיגה היא נותנת הנחה של 100 ש"ח לקניית מטבח פטיט. ההנחה תקפה עד סוף דצמבר הזה

עכשיו, החגיגה של עופרה גם כוללת הגרלה נהדרת!!! ומה היא מגרילה? מטבח פטיט כמו בתמונה

אני חייבת להודות שזה פשוט חלומי!!!

אז קודם כל הינה הבלוג של המוכשרת הזאת, עופרה:

http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/userBlog.asp?FolderName=totzeretbait

והינה שוב הקישור לאתר של מטבחי פטיט:

http://www.petitkitchen.co.il/

לפרטים על כיצד להירשם להגרלה, יש להכנס לבלוג של עופרה, בקישור למעלה.

אז בהצלחה!

giveaway day- december 2, WOOHOOO

2009-11-23T13:52:00.000-08:00

Sew mama sew are getting ready for another giveaway day on blogland. Everyone can take part and do a giveaway on there blog. So since i won some giveaways latly, it would be nice and fun! to have a giveaway here on my blog.
Thats it! I am going to have a good giveaway on the same day. And please take a visit at sew mama sew: http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=3314
and read what its all about.
Good luck for everyone and spred the word!

Look at this sweetness!!!

2009-11-21T09:47:00.001-08:00

Look what arrived in the mail!

2009-11-18T23:30:00.000-08:00

I happend to get very lucky latly! i won 3 giveaways!!!! whoooooo!!!!!!

So, this is the first giveaway that i won from the yellow goat blog: http://yellowgoatdesign.blogspot.com/

Its a beautiful headband from old soul new heart: http://www.oldsoulnewheart.com/

Ill thake a picture with my self wearing it when i find the day to dress up nice and go out with my husbend :-)

And this quilt!!!! o god!!! alot of luck was needed to win such a beautiful quilt!!! its amazing!and i am so happy with it!!!
It comes from the nice and talented Robin from http://rsislandcrafts.blogspot.com/

Its decorating my doghters bed, she loves it, we all love it!!!

And last, is a nother something i won that i wont say and tell untill its here...

So thats it for now!

Im hoping to get a little more crafty and do some sewing and show here on my blog

byyyy

For my mom

2009-10-27T08:28:00.000-07:00

Giving back to Aviv

2009-10-27T07:52:00.000-07:00

Aviv is a very good friend, a nother angel that gave me alot of help!
When i was in the hospetal, giving birth to Tom, Alex stayd over her best friend for days! And Aviv is the mother of Alex's best friend. So she is the one who took such good care of Alex and did every thing for her in those days. Plus, after i came home and Oren, my husband went back to work, she used to cook and send food with her husbend to our house just becues she wanted to help. So she realy is an angel!
I hope she'll like these things i made for her...

This is for the lessons she does for small kids and babies:

And this is all for her:

I think my kids are beautiful!!!

2009-10-27T07:45:00.000-07:00

And yes! I am showing off!! - cues i'm the mommy!

Pay it forward- who wants a presant from me?

2009-10-26T13:28:00.000-07:00

Pay it forward is a game that i saw a few times going around in other blogs and now desided to try. Today i saw that Norma from "Petit Debutant" http://blog.petitdebutant.com/ , started this game in her blog and now i am starting it 2.
So this is how it goes: The first 3 who comment in this post will get something hand made from me in the next 365 days. So i have one year to deliver but as i know my self it will be much sooner. And the 3 people that cooment hear, also need to write the same post in there blog and make something hand made for the first 3.... and so on....
So who wants to play?

אז הינה זה בעברית, למי שאין כוח לקרוא באנגלית...
זה בעצם משחק שכזה שמסתובב בכל מיני בלוגים ברחבי העולם. המשחק הולך ככה: השלושה אנשים הראשונים שמגיבים לפוסט הזה יקבלו ממני מתנה, עבודת יד. יש לי 365 ימים להכין ולשלוח את זה אבל כמו שאני מכירה את עצמי זה יקח הרבה הרבה פחות זמן מזה אז אל דאגה.
השלושה אנשים האלו שמגיבים כאן צריכים גם הם לפרסם פוסט כזה בבלוג שלהם ולהתחייב לתת משהו עבודת יד שלהם לשלושה הראשונים שיגיבו אצלם וכן הלאה והלאה...
נשמע נחמדיש נכון?
אז מי רוצה לשחק?

This must be mine!

2009-10-22T04:30:00.000-07:00

Love is in the air! i am inlove! here is a great giveaway- please dont enter! :-D
http://www.trueup.net/?p=6712

Sorry! I cant take it!

2009-10-15T16:52:00.000-07:00

Above all, I just cant take it! He is becoming cuter every second!

I just want to eat him!

Tom earlyer this week:
Today:

After a few minets:

He is defenatly perfect!

My scrapy art life

2009-10-15T16:40:00.000-07:00

Here are a few reasons why i love fabric acraps... And why i always loved fabric scraps....

There are endless posabilities.....

A scrapy flower crown tutorial

2009-10-13T02:07:00.000-07:00

1) Materials: A strong but flexable metal whire, pliers and fabric scraps

2) first of all i started making the flowers. I decided to make some scrapy roses, but you can do what ever flower you most desire for. This is how i made mine: I took white fabric, i cut it in to rectangles and then took diffarnt patternd pink fabric and sewd two pices of each, together.

And here you can see them all lined up:

3)Then i zigzag cut one side of rectangles, with regular scissers. Then i rolld them up like this:

All rolld up:

4) Then i made the leafs from small green triangles:

5) And now for the "crown" it self: I took white flannel fabric and wrapt tightly around the metal whire. Then i sewd through in different directins:

6) And now for the fun part: Decorating!

I made white straps like these:

And tied them all around

7) I took black thread to connect the roses by sewing threw them and tieing them up to the decorated whire

All most done!

Just missing a pink satin ribbon:

8) And all you need is a cute head to put it on like this one:

I forgot to mention:

2009-10-11T14:03:00.000-07:00

In my last post's i showed these things that i sewd, but i forgot to mention where the tutorials came from.

So this amazing bag comes from a great tutorial {in hebrew, but can be done from pictures}
by Ofra from her great blog:
http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/userBlog.asp?FolderName=totzeretbait

And this quilted basket is from a tutorial made by Pink penguin at her great blog:
http://ayumills.blogspot.com/

Both tutorials are highly recomended!

Tom is 2 monthes old!

2009-10-11T07:41:00.001-07:00

Giving back to Enbal

2009-10-07T14:58:00.000-07:00

The first frend i had in mind that i shuld give back to is Enbal.
Enbal is one of the most nicest people i know. She is like an angel. Always nice, smart, giving...
She is a super talented painter. And she gave me 5 amazing paintings! and since then i knew that one day i'll have to sit down and start sewing back for her... and sew i did!
At 9-9-9 she gave birth to a perfect new baby, so that was a nother good reson to sew for.

{And since i have my own little baby, i made every thing twice!}

A rag quilt for her baby

A bag for Enbal

And one for me. I think that this bag looks very like a diper bag.

Together...

A worm from "little bit of whimsy dolls" blog

The pink is for her, the blue is for tom

Again, one for her and one for tom

And i little banana i made a while back and never had any use. Also for Enbal..

Every thing for her, together..

Bigger and better? not always....

2009-10-01T13:21:00.000-07:00

TOM IS GETTING BIGGER!
He is so sweet!!!!!!!

ELI GOT BIGGER TO!
Today he's Bob the builder, fixing every thing like daddy- how cute!!

Mommy love tom! AND MOMMY IS WAY TO BIG!!!!!

and mommy needs to lose weight......

I mean, tom is realy cute, his cheeks got bigger and every thing.... but why are my cheeks bigger to?

Every pregnancy i gain alot of weight and i cant stand my self with it. Aventualy it goes off but it takes almost a year and its a year of some fustration... i just dont like being this way!

Now i need to lose 15 kilos to get back to what i was before this pregnancy and 20 kilos to look like i was never pregnant before!

;-)

I realy hope and wish for all this weight to just go away! now! i cant wait to wear my normal clothes..... so now i am trying my best and lost 1 kilo latly.... but theres many more to go...

BIGGER!! but NOT BETTER!!!!!

Giving back....

2009-10-01T12:32:00.000-07:00

Do you know the feeling when someone does somthing amazing for you or gives you something great! just like that, out of the blue...
And then, at the time, you dont have a way to repay them... but you realy realy want to repay them becues it was somthing amazing and you know that you will always appreciate and remmeber it... so its somthing that goes with you, untill you find the time to give back.

Thats what i feel about certain people, that gave me something and i just cant get it out of my head. i must do somthing for them as well- i am very thankfull.

So add that to some sewing tutorials that you'v always plannd on doing but never got to it

and what do you get?

thats exactly what im doing latly in my life.
i have 2 long lists in my head:
1- for certain people
2- certain sewing tutorials

And i am happy to say that i am terning thoes lists in to reality! and its lots of fun!!

In the very close future i'll be showing you what i gave to who and why. but its going to take a little while to finish every project- I can't wait!!!

Hears a little something i made for Tom. the big basket is the new one. It add's up to the smaller one i'v done before giving birth.

Things to eat! or eat with...

2009-09-25T08:44:00.000-07:00

New plates to eat with... arent they cute?

Finally!! new cups that i love!
specially the green one..

A frozen choclet cake to eat!

{and i made it- yey!!}

And Tom!! to eat eat eat!!!!

Alex's birthday!

2009-09-24T08:50:00.000-07:00

This month was Alex's 6'th birthday.

We celebrated with our family at the pool. it was alot of fun! and there was alot of good food that our family knows how to make- perfect!

Hears Alex- eating cake and feeling relaxed

My sister and her boyfrind dany

So diffarent but yet, so alike!

Dany and his brother

My mom with Alex

My husbend, his daughter, our kids and my sister....

hoooo that was long!

I love tom's bed

2009-09-07T03:59:00.001-07:00

with to home made sheets, and blanket and pilows and sweet soft toy...

sea swap!

2009-09-07T03:29:00.000-07:00

so just before giving birth there was a very cool swap going on.

the theme of the swap was "the ocean".

this is what i made for aline, my swap partner. its a squid from this great blog,

"bit of whimsy dolls":

http://www.bitofwhimsydolls.com/blog/

and may i say how much i love her blog and her great patterns!

and with a felt bag...

Now, as i mentiond, aline was my swap partner. and a lone is one of the most talented wemon i know! everything that she makes looks perfect! she always has the right fabric. and she always knows how and what to do with it. and there are lots of wemon in israel who are adicted to her super great blog! {http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/userblog.asp?foldername=craftblog}

so i was soooo happy to recive this from her!

and as always it looks pefect!!

and how perfect is he???

last friday...

2009-09-07T03:19:00.000-07:00

some pictures from last friday...

Tom- doing all kinds of face's

and later on we all went out a little bit to breath some air..

this is the "center" of tivon, where we live...

and tom....

back to september first!

2009-09-07T02:28:00.000-07:00

see, this is what happens when you have 3 small kids: there is no time to blog or sew...
so back to september first!
the first day of september is a very special day for me. first of all- its alex's birthday! and this yaer she just turned 6! what a big girl i have! unbalevable! and MAZAL TOV!

the second reson for it being a special day is becues its the first day of school or preschool or day care or what ever! but finely the kids go back to there day care and every thing starts to go back to normal. i mean, 2 monthes of vecation + me haveing a baby, belive me, things became a little defacult.

so for this day i bought some candy and some small presents and a lil'webkinz for alex. i put every thing on the table and woke the kids up.

hear they are dresst up and ready for there day care and preschool, with there new baloons.

and only tom stays with mommy....

and finaly thers time to sleep.....

open house!

2009-09-05T10:16:00.000-07:00

go to "needle little inspiration":
http://needlelittleinspiration.blogspot.com/
for lots of fun and great giveaways!

for tom

2009-08-25T01:36:00.000-07:00

tom is 2 weeks old!! {plus one day...}
and for his 2 week birthday i'll show you what i made for him while i was pregnant.

hear's tom, 2 weeks old!

a rag quilt for him

matching crib sheets

flannel blankets with a coton fabric polka dot side

and a small quilted basket for all kinds of stuff

and thats it!

i cant wait to get back in sewing again! i miss it so much and have alot to do!

TOM

2009-08-21T04:36:00.000-07:00

i haven ben hear for a while
but i have the best reason!
on august 10 tom was born!!!!!

and hear are some pictures:

this is the first picture in tom's life! brand new!

later on, in the hospital..

with Eli, his big brother....

and Eli isnt so happy. he's a little shoket... plus he doesnt want to be around me any more, since then.....

o well....

Tom with mommy

Alex with her new "webkinz pet". ya right....

she loves webkinz and she loves her new brother and it is kind of the same... isnt it?

on the way home...

at home: the first week...

he is awake!

look how sweet he is! it realy is the wonders in life! i am still amazed by how this perfect little human being came out of me... what a unbalivable thing!

I LOVE YOU TOM!!!!

sorry for unsubscribing....

2009-08-05T14:46:00.000-07:00

I am subscribed to many blogs from all diffarent tipes of hand making things.

everyday i sit infront of my "googel reader" and look at all the great pictures and posts of all the wonderful blogs i am subscribed to. it gives me ideas. and it also shows me the life in other cuntries and in other famaly's. and i look forword for it every morning.

but- hear's the deal, if i miss a day going in my googel reader, then after words i will need to spend hours going throgh every picture and every post i like. and many times i cant do that so i miss alot....

and nowi am almost due. and soon i will have the baby that i am soooo waiting for and i will miss days and days on the computer. this is why i am unsubscribing from many crafty blogs. its not becues i dont like you any more. its becues that i love looking at all this wonderfull posts. but time is neede to do that. and now i am runnig out of time. so i must leave my self subscribed to much less blogs for now.... until time will come and i 'll have more of it......

so i am truely sorry- everyone who i am unsubscribing from.

wow!

2009-08-02T13:44:00.000-07:00

Look at this scrapy and perfect quilt!

no- i didnt make it! i wish i could! this is a giveaway quilt from marie-madeline studio

right hear: http://mariemadelinestudio.typepad.com/mariemadeline_studio/2009/07/the-happy-scrappy-quilt-giveaway.html

good luck!!! {ya right!}

Thank you michal!!!!!!

2009-07-29T03:42:00.001-07:00

Dear Michal- i was so happy when i got this in the mail from you!
i was so excited from the fabric you picket out for me. its so not israely and so texas style that it was very exciting to recieve!

I was also born in the states. and i may have some problems in writing but when i speak my english is much better. but any way when i saw this fabric it made me miss the states once again.
I always miss going back. and with no doubt i would rather live there and not hear! and my haert will always belong there. so thanks alot for the fabric- its very american and i love it!!!

And most important: feel good! and good luck in moving to a new house, soon.....

I love useing scraps

2009-07-29T03:37:00.000-07:00

Something new......

In a very scrapy look....