sarah in nyc

 Over the past several days I finished dyeing the cotton for the brit milah pillow. I had wanted the text to be in the cosmos and the cosmos populated with a few heavenly bodies. This is my sketch for the project ( in case you don't commit every word I type to your long term memory).  One of the things I have learned with years of experience doing this sort of work is how to plan how to attack the various tasks needed to complete the job and in what order. I cut the fabric to pillowcase  size and pressed it to be sure that it is colorfast. I then sketched out a moon, a couple of stars and a something that is either a planet or the sun onto a white linen men's handkerchief. I have a bag full of beautiful ones in my stash and I thought that the finely woven white linen would be perfect for the job. After I sketched out the shapes and the text to go inside I went over my pencil line in gold paint and then floated color inside of the gold lines. Then I t...

All of our Passover stuff got put away. All of our during the year stuff is back more or less in its place. This could not have been done without the gracious good spirited help of my kids. We had a slight blip when none of us could remember where we had put our dairy silverware. I was at that point so tired that I couldn't even remember what the silverware looked like. My husband found the giant tote bag. And if you were wondering what our dairy silverware looks like it is a mix of silverplate from as early as the 1920s and as recent as the 1950s. Yesterday our older son baked our first loaf of bread. While I really hadn't missed bread during Passover,  eating my first slice of home-baked bread in a few weeks, I was reminded about what a truly wonderful thing bread is. With the holiday over, it was time to get back to work. I spent a long time yesterday typesetting text for an atara.  My client wants a selection of prayers that are meaningful for him on the atar...