Time Flies Like an Arrow;

Fruit Flies Like Bananas;

Why? 
just like that! 

because I don't have something more cleaver to say and I want to wish you all -

AN HAPPY NEW YEAR.

A new felt coat (to warm me up in this winter that refuse to arrive), printed with Casuarina and dyed with Indigo.

Ashes and Dust

One day, when the station was a sleep, Idan and I sneaked in.

And if you're going ... Where are you going?

Eternity is only ashes and dust

Beautiful Italy

This year I happened to be twice in Italy.

 I love Italy. It is so beautiful in every way.

The places, the food but mostly the people.

I just love them. They make me feel happy and relax.

My trip this time began In Pisa

 And from Pisa we drove south towards Grosseto
 in the heart of Tuscany

On the way we went to visit Willam. 

He grows many eucalyptus varieties for flower shops.

Then we arrived to "La Capitana" - An old farmhouse typical to Tuscany

The workshop took place there annd everything was just perfect

 We worked and laughed and energies were just great. 

Lots of pictures already post to Facebook so I just choose some close ups and I wish I knew how to attach Italian music to this post to complete the atmosphere.

Intimate Secrets

More than a year ago a friend gave me a pile of old vintage bed sheets and tablecloths. They are exactly in the style I remember from my grandmother home when I was a child.
Oh yes, My grandmother and grandfather house. What a sweet memory :)
I was their only grandchild and I was their princess. They lived in a beautiful Bauhaus building in Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv. I remember hours on hours between those sheets with my grandmother telling me stories about her childhood in Poland. I loved that moment with her and loved her stories, I loved those sheets and the smell of the laundry they had but I don't know where those sheets gone. Disappeared...

So my friend gave me this pile and the pieces even had the marks of the laundry.  Back than everybody sent their clothes and bed sheets to the laundry. It was exactly between the time people stop to make all their laundry by hand but didn't had a washing machine in the house so all the laundry should be mark. By name or by number.

Last year in Rosh Hashana (our new year) I went to the dead sea. I took all the sheet pile with me to sock them in the magic salty water. It was quite surreal. My children and I floating in the water with all kinds of fabrics and than  hung them up to dry on beach umbrellas. People came and ask what I'm doing. I tried to explain but no one understand so for the fourth man woman who asked I said I'm doing my laundry :)

Since than I'm using the fabrics in pieces. small pieces. The results are wonderful mostly when I use iron. Probably generated reaction from Dead Sea minerals and iron and I'm getting wonderful shades of blues and purples.
I called this group of prints "Intimate Secrets"

and you can see them all here: Intimate Secrets

What next?

Just today I opened the studio doors for the first time since I went to Cyprus. 

I was not surprised to see the mess I left smiling at me.

Every time before traveling I tell myself it's better to clean up before I go, come into a clean studio after days of absence but it never fails me. 

The excitement and preparations before the trip did not leave me too much for arrange and cleanliness.

Maybe it does not really matter ... There is something about cleaning that allows 
a new beginning.

And after such a unique experience in Cyprus, what I need is a new beginning.

So I just cleaned all day :)

At first there was so much mess.

Who works with Eco dyeing knows very well how much mess it can makes

After an hour I sat and stared at this smiling mess I started to clean up smiling I decided it is necessary to start.

Cleaned all my pots and took them out to dry in the sun.

Cleaned all my metals

Slowly, things have found their place

Then I could open and enjoy all the treasures I had received in Cyprus.

Amazing silk gauze and silk paj from Vilte, Muga silk fibers also from Vilte, some raw locks from Shelly...

 And small aromatic lavender bag (made the cleaning much more yummy) from Gabi 

and Tatiana.

So what next?... I have three weeks to myself and in the end of August I go again. This time to Italy to teach 3 days workshop in a very beautiful place in Tuscany by the Sea.

Happy Days

To tell the story of the workshop in Cyprus I have to be a journalist, which I not, so I really don't know where to begin. Maybe even write a story can not transmit 
the experience.

It's about a beautiful beaches, sunrises and sunsets, clear water, quiet and peaceful, beautiful and happy  women, eco print, felt and beautiful creations.

Enjoy!