Growing Up Creative

sleepless

I fell asleep putting Mika to sleep tonight; I think she was still up and babbling while I was already dreaming. I woke up once to turn off the stove after realizing I have burned tomorrow's Cholent (meat stew), and once more at around midnight aching, wishing for a comfortable bed or atlist a bed in my size. I was tossing and turning not being able to go back to sleep, thinking of everything I needed to do, the list is so long, it could have kept me up for the rest of the night.
So I did what I probably shouldn’t have, and will regret tomorrow – I got out of bed
And here I am talking to you guys because no one else would listen; they are all sleeping…..

I have been working on some really exiting projects lately that I wanted to share with you (sharing is nice). Yesterday was the opening for my first community art installation -1000 Butterflies (there were actually closer to 2000, but dont tell anyone).

I will write up a tutorial when I am more alert, in the meantime you can read about it here.

I have also finished a project for the local community center; I have designed a play/ waiting area in the lobby. That project was fun fun fun, everything I love doing in one project- design, making, ecological, enhancing creativity, with a crazy 3 week deadline - it has "tali" witten all over it.  Here is a link with some beautiful pictures by Nirit Gur-Karby.

I am also taking part of a very cool good sale with Keren Shavit in Bnei Brak near Tel-Aviv in the most incredible structure.
The challenges with this sale are to:
a. make the products on schedule (another crazy deadline) and
b. not to spend more than I will be making….

there is more, but I am getting tired…one sleepless night at a time. Sorry for my typos, my editors (Anat and Oren are sleeping….not together….)
Night night
tali

Transformation – stained glass tutorial

I walked into Ori’s kindergarten a couple of days ago, and found that the room was transformed. All the windows were covered with stained glass for the holiday. It’s funny how every teacher has her trade secrets, and Eliza is no different. I immediately turned to her, asking for a quick how-to explanation. Laughing, she explained how easy this trick is (I needed an easy project after our BIG frustration fiasco from the day before).

If you want to decorate your windows with removable, easy, effective, kid friendly… stained glass, then this is
what you will need:
Translucent colored cellophane (they come in rolls, and are available in craft stores)
Liquid dish soap
Scissors
A window
How to:
Cut the cellophane into smaller pieces in different shapes
Mix about 2/3 soap with 1/3 water
Smear the window with the soapy water
Place pieces of cellophane on the wet part of the window
Repeat as needed

Experiment with overlapping colors to get new colors.

Happy and delicious Chanukah
tali

FRUSTRATION

Today, I used my kids and my friends kids, as Ginny Pigs.
Judging by the tantrums and the high level of frustration - the experiment failed miserably.
As a test for the 'young architect class’ I teach, we tried to build an abstract structure made out of toothpicks and mush beans that where soaked in water for several hours. According to THE book (which is a must have book for anyone who likes to build) we should have used dries peas.
I couldn’t find any, so I figured, dried mush beans will work just as well. Needless to say - I was wrong.
The mush beans couldn't hold the structure; everyone had their hands poked several times, and all of the structures fell apart. Lots of tears, loads of agony.

So, what did I learn?
1. Only experiment on your own kids or best friends kids that you know will love you anyways no matter what.
2. Mush beans and green beans are completely different construction materials.
3. Raisins, mini marshmallow and jellybeans are far better building materials then beans, turning frustration into a sweet festivity….
4. If all fails…..Potato head figures are a great alternative for toothpick construction

tali

who knows?

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eht xob....