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Friday, December 21, 2012

This moment

This post is inspired from the great blog of SouleMama

It will be a Friday ritual.

Just a single photo without words - capturing a simple and beautiful moment I want to pause and remember from the week.

Monday, December 17, 2012

We're in our new home!!

It's been three weeks since my last post and I have so much to tell.

So many things have happened during these recent weeks.

I think I'll break it up into bits…

We moved.

After a long, tedious yet exhilarating renovation it finally happened.

We have been living in our new home for two and a half weeks and every moment still feels weird and exciting.

The house is big, light and spacious. Full of beautiful items I have collected. Some of them have already found their place and some are waiting patiently for their turn.

We are happy!

It's wonderful to wake up here.

It's wonderful to eat at the natural wooden food bar that Gili built.

It's wonderful to have a large living room, it lets the sunshine in and floods the space with light all hours of the day, it's warm and nice. We all soak up every ray of sun, even the cats.

Cooking in the kitchen is fun. It’s a big people's kitchen, with lots of drawers, wide marble counter, huge sink and large window looking out onto the farm.

The girls have fun in their rooms. Dror is totally in love with her bedroom and her upstairs gallery. She spends all her time there with her girlfriends and the house is full of giggles and laughter with costumes and fairy tales flying around in the air.

Gefen is crawling in every direction. She has plenty of space. She sits and babbles. She has developed so much over the past few weeks. You can see she is content

Amidst the fun and excitement I manage to work in the house non-stop, but really "non-stop". Constantly moving and arranging things, trying to get used to large space and living here. I am terribly tired but happy that the house is starting to look like a home. My mother arrived one day and within a moment she managed with her magic touch to arrange a few beautiful areas and corners here and there. The pictures are slowly finding their way onto the wall, decorations are being added and I already feel at home.

I love my home!

Wish you all the best,

Maayan

Before the birth I worked at least 4-5 hours a day in the studio, mainly in the bead section but also painting on chained pendants. The routine of getting up in the morning, organizing Dror for Kindergarten, getting a cup of coffee and going to the studio until lunch time was wonderful and prolific, yet somehow I always felt like I was chasing after my own tail and not managing to get everything done. Today, when I have barely an hour here or there to spend in the studio, I fail to understand how once upon a time I felt that five hours in the studio was not enough for me...

Over the past 8 months at home I have found myself doing a lot of crafting, simple and enjoyable. It's as though all my creative drive and need to be in the studio was channeled into crafting small things, here at home with whatever was available.

Dror celebrated her 5^th birthday and I decided to prepare her a full on Fairy themed birthday.

Fabrics, buttons, glitter, lace, glues, special papers and more were always scattered around the keyboard, printer and basically at hands reach from any point in the house.

I prepared a golden crown for my birthday fairy, flag chains for decoration, glittery wands and little presents for every fairy friend (fairy bookmark and felt hairclip made from lovely buttons I purchased here)

And of course lots and lots of pink sweets. :-)

(More pictures available on my facebook page)

The truth is that I love crafting!

so I gladly accepted a request from Drors Kindergarten teacher to prepare birthday garlands and upgrade the birthday board. I started playing and constructing with materials and paints.