December 17th, 2006 at 11:04 am (Workshops)
Check it out! The absolute best beach time along these Mediterranean shores is on bright sunny winter days – and yes, there are some swimmers too. My little pal was prepared to enter the turquoise blue waters – until – we found the jellyfish – medusa in Hebrew – lying in the sand. Oops! better re-think that, she said to herself as she backed away.
No swimming, huh? Dunes are better than swimming anyway, so we climbed, jumped, rolled (is that why my back is kaput?), dug, built, blew bubbles, and watched others bike, fish, jog and walk. Read the rest of this entry »
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December 14th, 2006 at 10:23 am (Workshops)
During a Chanukah vacation visit from our frequent-flyer family in the U.S., we decided to break the mold of touring and looking, with a hands-on workshop. Options were discussed until we unanimously voted to try our scissors at papercutting, a popular form of art practiced for hundreds of years by Jewish artists.
Intrigued by a Yehudit Shadur papercut hanging on my wall – how do all those teeny tiny cuts form an elegant meaningful composition? – we took up ruler, scissors, tracing paper, and secret tools of the trade.
Under the patient instruction and guidance of Susan, a student at the Pardes Institute in Jerusalem, we used tools that I, for one, had not held for quite some time.
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