Interviewd by map magazine from Brisbane Australia for the weekend edition

I'm so proud and happy,
The inspiring, interesting and so relevant, Brisbane based, lifestyle map magazine interview me for their great weekend edition:

http://theweekendedition.com.au/mapmagazine/read/

map magazine is focusing on people, and the latest in fashion, design, arts, entertainment, green, habitat, pop culture with a conscience and global thinking.

Hanukkah - playing with fire

Hanukkah, the only time of the year when kids are 'allowed' to play with fire.
one of our favorites is making a colorful candle wax drops over water.

Eden, with a goal in her mind was carefully picking candle colors and mixing the hot wax drops to get new tones.

Tom on the other hand, with a goal on his mind, was determined to exploit the holiday fire positive spirit and was busy putting out then lighting back candles.

we laughed so bad realising that their work is a mirror to their temperament.

Eden's wax dropping went - drop...........drop.....................drop...........drop.......while Tom's went - BLUGBLUG  BLUG BLUGBLUG BLUG BLUG  BLUGBLUG

 

Hanukkah is here - we are making Menorah

we spent a nice warm afternoon few days before Hanukkah, enjoying holiday spirit. we love creating our own special menorah. 

the kids, full of excitement, went outside strolling with a mission to collect natural elements that could be used in their designs.

they came back hands full with acorn cupules, few sticks, sliced apple (that our neighbor gave them) and our dog whom they found enjoying a sun bath (and thought it is much more important that he'll join them)

I placed the cupules using a glue gun, then the kids picked the materials they would like to design with and the happy work begin.

Eden, with her never ending patience, decorated her work with tiny colorful flowers and a small dot of play dough in the center of each one of them.

Tom started decorating with thin dough snakes that soon turn to be very fat snakes that soon afterwards became into a "mighty dinosaur tower" that soon after transformed....