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FROZEN CHARLOTTES ARE TAKING OVER MY HOME


FROZEN CHARLOTTES!!   I love them, can't get enough of them.  There, I've admitted it.  They are just so darn cute!  I have boxes of them.  Last year I started selling them.  Here's the link:  http://www.pinksupply.etsy.com   
Now, here's the problem.  I'm in love with each and every one of them and don't want to part with a one~!    I want to keep them all.  I have boxes of them.  They are sitting on the shelf with the spices over my sink, peeking out of cabinets, lined up between fabric in the sewing room, looking at me when I open a drawer, wearing little paper hats on my work table.  I've been collecting them for years.  They're not all out on display, that would really make me look mad!!  I do switch them when I'm dusting.  Every time I sell one I feel a little sad that she's  leaving the others.  Whew!  That's really sick!!  I sold my  favorite two this year and still wish I never listed them. They had to go when I realized it's  not "normal" having so many.   What if when I die  someone comes upon my stash hidden throughout the house?  How will I be remembered?  That crazy woman up on Fifth Street with all those weird little china dolls? But...there I am at another auction, my hand goes up when I see a box  of them.  Or, I'm strolling the street on a Saturday morning garage sale circuit and there they are stuck in a pile of junk under a table calling out to me to save them.  YIKES!!!! I think I need a doll intervention.

Bar Mitzvah making a present: Mezuzah





When Ben was about 5 years old, I met him as a student, in one of my art classes.   Absolutely one of the cutest, smartest, funniest kids I've known.  He drew pictures, complete with stories,  that he would pull from his mind.  At dinner, my family had to listen to me tell about this wonderful, talented child I had the pleasure of being with.    His mother, who also is multi talented, funny and just fun to be with, and I have become friends.  I’ve been invited to Ben’s Bar Mitzvah this month.  I’m making him a Mezuzah.  The pictures are in progress, I haven't applied the gold and copper leaf.  His mother is getting the prayer to place inside. 

 

mezuzah |məˈzoŏzə| (also mezuza)

noun ( pl. mezuzahs or mezuzas or mezuzot or mezuzoth |məˈzoŏzōt|)

a parchment inscribed with religious texts and attached in a case to the doorpost of a Jewish house as a sign of faith.

ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Hebrew mĕzūzāh ‘doorpost.’