Sending love and hope

The past week Israel has been at war.

Half of my country is under missile attack.  It is very scary

The daily routine has stopped for thousands of people, terrified children, parents living in deep fear and the days spent in the bomb shelters.

My family and I live far from the danger zone for the meantime, but my heart goes out to my friends and relatives who are under fire.

I wish for all of us that peace will become a reality.

I still believe in it.

Sending a little bit of color and lots of love and hope to all of Israel.

A period ends….

Last week little Geffen went to her caregiver for the first time.

3 days a week she spends the morning with her till 13.00.

It’s the end of a period, a period where she and I spent 24 hours a day together. A period where I always knew what was going on with her, what she's doing, what she needs. It's hard to let go…

The first two days I felt at a loss at home without her, I walked around, tried to clean and tidy up, I couldn't bring myself to sit and work. I worried about her despite being totally confident with her caregiver whom I love very much.

After a couple of times where we both had settled in to the new situation, I began working. Suddenly I have time alone in the studio, it was quiet and I felt a different energy. 

I'm working again.

I torched, prepared some more hair pins and pendants, ordered supplies, photographed and happily entertained visitors in the studio.

Changes..

 

Wish you all a beautiful and safe week!

Maayan

 

Studio Time – lampworking

These days I am fairly limited with my studio time… the girls are on holiday and we spend time pleasantly at home and in the surrounding nature. Gili is working around the clock so we can move into the new house before the beginning of winter. (This renovation is taking forever, sometimes it seems like the long awaited move will never happen…)

Yet here I am, trying somehow to find time for all the things I want to make. And there are a lot of those. I'm working simultaneously on three difference collections: new glass beads in warm inviting autumn colors, my jewelry collection and my new baby "Bindu collage dreams" – soft pictures with a scent of vintage for children's rooms…(I hope to post some pictures soon). 

So much to do and so little time… sometimes I find it hard to focus with so many ideas running around in my head, that is why I was so happy to have been approached by an American Jewelry artist, asking me to work together with her. 

She has "forced" me to focus on my work in my glass corner of the studio. :-)

The client looked through my store and chose beads that she liked and that suit her work. I love collaborations like these. In the past I have had contact with a number of jewelers and I enjoyed it very much.

Here are some of the beads she chose. Some I custom made for her and some were already in my store. I can't wait to see how she incorporates them in her beautiful work.

Also, finally, after a few weeks I have added new beads to the store. it's always fun to add and renew.

The upcoming week is planned for "studio time" – preparing new glass beads, making new pictures made from the pretty vintage paper I have recently purchased. And one day set aside just for photographing the new girl chains and my new "Bindu Collage Dream" collection.

Wishing you all a creative and love filled week!

Maayan

My "To do" List

Home and Farm:

·       create a warm, inviting new home full of love

·        educate our girls to a simple, natural and healthy life

·        grow a vegetable garden

·        build a small shed in the garden for chickens and enjoy their eggs

·        eat the vegetable that have grown in our garden

·        build an outside shower and use it under the stars or sun

·       plant flowers in the garden

·       plant a lot of trees on the farm

·       turn the existing chicken coop into a free range egg compound

·        do gardening with the girls

·        paint the dark furniture

·        build a tree-house for the girls

·        organize the large shed on the farm

·        plant bougainvillea around the parkway

Work:

·       work a lot in the studio

·       Learn how to make glass cabochons'

·       Work on a line of girls pendants

·       Prepare pretty things for kindergartens and market them

·        combine more natural material in my day to day life and in my art

·        manage to make a living from my art and slowly grow my business

·       Collect tons of crafting knick knacks (fabrics, buttons, pine cones…)

·       Learn how to make felt anthroposophic fairies

For myself:

·       Listen to good music at least an hour a day

·       Do reiki a few times a week

·       manage to feel connected to the force of the universe in my day to day being

·       Spend time in the wonderful waters of the sea of galilee

·       Go overnight camping for two every few months

·       Travel overseas once a year

·       Return to India, to the mountains

·       Open my own blog and share moments of inspiration from my life

·       Live a simple life

·        be satisfied with what I have yet dream for more

·       Spend a lot of time out in nature

·       Eat healthier

·       Get dressed up in skirts and colorful clothes

·       Spend relaxing time with Gili

·       Be surrounded in green

·       Learn to accept people as they are, but really.

·       Get a large tattoo on my right hand.