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.

Studio time – new beads for my new home

I'm excited…throughout the entire building and renovation process of the house I kept thinking to myself how and where I can incorporate my beads into the house, how I should leave my mark here and there…a few days ago a great idea came..

Last week the contractor who is building our banister came by. A lovely and professional person called Gal Zohar. We had searched for a long time for someone and we thought the entire move would be delayed because of the banister but finally the exact person we were looking for arrived. I love it when those kinds of things happen, we spent weeks searching, made appointments with tradesmen and they didn't arrive, eventually the right person came. He understands what we are looking for and the atmosphere of the house. And the most exciting part is that he came up with the idea to incorporate my beads into the bannister. What a fantastic idea! It is the perfect place to infuse with color.

So the bannister is ready and all its waiting for are the beads :-)

I started working on them this week.  It's exciting to sit in front of the torch and make a bead that will be part of my home, Beads that will stay with me forever. I have a lot of work ahead of me and a lot of beads to make and it's wonderful!

I can't wait to see the finished bannister.

(By the way, did you notice the gorgeous little birds I have on the bannister? Oh, I love them)

Apart from the beads, I also managed to make a few more hair clips, they are drying right now and will shortly have a coat of shiny smooth enamel and placed in my marmalade store.

I made new logo for my shop in Marmelada Market

 

I also photographed some of the pictures for the  "Bindu dream collage" for children's rooms.

 

Have a wonderful and creative week.

Hugs,

Maayan 

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.

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.

Almost ready...

We are approaching the end of the renovations, unbelievable.

The house is almost ready to move in, all is left is the garden and that it!

It did take longer than expected and winter is almost here but we made it.

9 months of renovations. Full of decisions and more decision, compromises, constraints, innovations, inventions and love.

We took a big old house with a farm attached and turned into ours. We haven’t moved into it yet but it already feels mine, mine, mine.

The earth plaster that embraces the entire family floor, mud walls with organic circles, warm  flooring that remind me of Toscana, colorful tiles, my parent's antique cabinet taken from their house, the special stairs made from wood that Gili built. There is so much more. I truly love this house

I can't wait to be living there already with Gili and the girls

I can't wait to style it and pour some soul into it.
I want to sleep, cook, play, love and live in it.

So, between nursing, hugging, meetings and lampworking, our house was being built.

Shortly little feet will be running around all around.

Hugs,

Maayan


*Soon there will a bigger post with before and after pictures of the house, with the stages we went through, recommendations and more.