I Had A Great WooDesign Workshop, Watch Inside

First, 2 new items I created with my new tutorial "The wooDesign

 

 Welcome sign .(near my  polymer clay bird, made with my tutorial the "cosmic ceramic" 





 

 

A Key Holder



Recently I tought in a WooDesign workshop with a group of talented girls in Yonat's  studio

Here are pictures from this workshop.

Look what the girls made: Hebrew letters by Brurya, Ravit and Liat.

 

 

 

Some more Hebrew letters  by Yonat, yudiko, and liat



 

Soon... another Woodesign  workshop. Stay tuned.

And if you can't join it, purchase the tutorial (video+pdf)

or in my etsy shop : hillovely.etsy.com

 

See you in the next post:)

Hilla

 

 

Make Trendy Letters, and signs with "Antique Chic"- a New Tutorial!

 

And yet, I'm excited...

Still we are in a complicated reality, in the world's weirdest country, but I've found something to be excited about, something to love: a new tutorial

 

Why did it took so long this time? The answer is unknown :) It's never easy to find an idea, to develop it, to nerture it, to improve it, to make it accsiable and doable, to film, to edit, to write, to translate, to pass it on to Aviva (=a friend) for a deep and serious proofreading, to hackle technical difficulties, to fix, to film again, to give up, to stop, to think about quitting... To get back to business, to progress, to make an effort... Yes, this is what it's like to write a tutorial, at least for me. This time, I had to do all of this twice... 

Nevertheless, I don't give up, and a new tutorial was born!

What's in it?

Over 48 minutes  video+and instruction notebook (pdf) with literall explantion of all the stages=two fun, colorful, techniques that open unlimited possibilities 

Bonus: how to decorate your letters, with swirls and drawing in the kitchy and sweet "Shabby Chic" style,
+7 sign patterns (just print it and it's ready to use)

Diffuclty level: Basic. (and as always, I'm here for every question, request, or misunderstanding. Use mail to contact me.)

Enjoy!
A Sneak peek in the promo video:

 

To purchase press here

 

 

To purchase , press here
 Thank you:)

Great 2 varnishes to your polymer clay neads and requirements, just perfect!

I haven't forgotten, I promised you  a post about the  beads city Jablonec nad Nisou in  Prague. The post is ready- in Hebtew, But not in English .

Why?

I have a deal with my daughter,she translates  for you,  every long  post,  from Hebrew to English.

   But 

My daughter is a soldier ( According to the Defense Service Law, the enlistment to the Israeli Defense Forces is mandatory for all Israeli citizens who have turned 18) and in the last month, she culdn't find a moment for the translet job. She is very busy because of the terrible  war with the "Hamas".

No, she is not  staying in the war zone, but  because of the war, she's  very busy or very tired....

Our mood is not so good.  I live near Tel Aviv, and we are suffering from the  missiles, less  then other areas) but still, nothing  is easy here....in our country

But meanwhile,  I will try to focus on those issues that  easier to understand :

 I have for you a great recommendation for two great varnishes that I discovered recently. 
I made a short video for you (+ great tip in the end of the video). Go and get them.... 
https://www.facebook.com/ClayandPaintFactory

And more from my working table in the last days, an order for a customer, using my magic transfer paper and the Darwi varnish ( 2-3 layers )

 

Dont forget to share these 2 great varnishes!!!

Wish you  peace and  serenity, and see you in the next post.

Miss Europe, The Queen of Beauty, Champion of Spires and Decorated with Textures and Swirls-Beautiful Prague!

Lately I've visited Prague.

Unfortunally, some of the days was accompanied by a sudden heat wave, which was tiring and exhausting, especially to the walking tourists....

The most disappointing part was to discover that when you want to cool off a bit in a cafe, a resturant or a shop, there is no air condioning :(((( Wow! No where to escape! Luckly our hotel was someplace central and accessiable, with excellent air conditioning, so we soon learned to run back to it wheneve we needed to cool off.

Even under the burning sun, the constant dampness on our skin, the sunscreen and the annoying carrige of water bottles on our backs, it was easy to see the capital of the Czech Republic in its full glory.

Pictures from the fair at the square -it was happy surprise for me to  stumble upon this small wonderful fair on frieday morning. It's just the way I like it: Handmade works, style, demonstrations, and colors! Iimmideitly purchased those wonderfull brooches made from recycled paper, and at home I found the creator in this link:

www.fler.cz/babibobik

Details form the classic sites and one unique souvenir shop.

Who ever saw the movie "The Best Offer" (highly recommended), must remember  one of the last scences in the town's squere with the beautiful, acient astronimic watch appeering on the left picture

The dancing house of Frank Owen Gehry and the view you can see from the roof. Note the quotation by the talanted architect (on the left picture)

A short trip to Plzen (one hour ride on the bus from Prague), a city with a central station that stopped working around the sixstees :)) A totally vintage station -and it doesn't even know it! :))) The shops, the signs with the ancient writing... :)

And-that's right! Here is the home of the famous Plzen Beer (as well as Sakuda Cars, which gone through a lot of changes since the fall of the communism, and survived ) and even on this forgotten corner, next to the central station, I've found beautiful, colorful houses, and a vintage hotel... One of many others....

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 The big synagogue in Plzen :

Next week, a post about a wonderful day in- Jablonec nad Nisou

The city of jewls, beads and glass, since the 17th century

Including photos from the amazing tour at the factroy of glass beads, which works in the traditional way

 I was standing at  the big Watzalav Plaza, in front of Jan Palach, and remembered the black and white pictures of my childhood, when the soviets invaded the large plaza with their tanks, and brought the end of Prauge's spring...and still  this song

... by Shalom Hanoch, sang by Aric Eienstein) played in my head )

 Soon.!... the "Happy Homes" workshop details! the place, cost, and when:)

See you next post!

New Workshop, Happy Houses,100% Polymer Clay.

I 'm still busy and building  the  new workshops program, for my customers in Israel.

 You are so far away...:) So take a look in this new  colorful worshop: 

Happy Homes

The house  have  lace , vintage flowers, paisley,  lovely roses and old  newspapers ,

and everything is just polymer clay !

Including my special magic with my  transfer papers .

Don't forget to comment and share! 

And if you also want to enjoy  my workshops, you're welcome!

\Hilla.

Polymer Clay On T.V., New polymer clay workshops and new beautiful necklaces.

Here I am ! Lucky we have internet! so, I can share with you my interview on television last week . Yes,the Interview is in Hebrew , but as you can imagine , I'm talking about my polymer clay creation, my products, tutorials and my workshops.

 As you see , I was very excited , but I hope I managed to give respect for our polymer clay beloved.

Soon! New Workshops.

I'm working on my new workshops program (here in Israel)

In the blog in English, I didn't publish the  information obut these workshop

but  wait!:) 

If you want to come to our wonderful Israel ( Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Nazareth ....)

 and enjoy polymer clay workshops too, just tell me!!! You are welcome!!

Meanwhile,  the new "mix and match" chains, one of my new workshops

Making leaves and flowers with my  special techniques and then creating these beautiful necklaces

The transfer papers are in stock again!!!

Buy the transfer papers here:

 See you in the next post, or...... maybe in the workshop in Israel?:))))))) who knows:)

I'm on T.V. +The Update You Were All Waiting For+Polymer Hint

Like many have said before me-it was not simple :)) Even now, as I'm writing, my heart beats faster... It all started from a suprising phone call from the production of "Local Crafts" (An Israeli morning show). At first I hesitated about going, (???!!!) but fast enough it turned into exicitment.

 Not to long after that, the questions started-

What products should I bring? The variaty, as you well know is huge.

 What to wear? What about my hair? What kind of shoes should I wear and----Am I fat? ,Will I look fat?  Hhahahahaha

Oh, the questions went on without end.

On the great day I woke up and drove to" Kiryat Shmona"(small city on the north), with my husband (both a driver and an escort). I stopped for coffe in the beautiful Rosh Pina and arrived in time to the studio, ready and expecting, and yet calm.

The interview went by with a huge excietment from me-just a few minuts and oops, it was gone ... :) I'm not really sure what went down in there :) But there were me, a magnificent display of my work+ a huge hint about the next tutorial, which I am working on the last few months. 

After wednsday ,they will upload  the show on youtube, so  you can see it too.

Here are some of the products I took with me to the show: 

Brooches, in my technique of faux ceramic

'cosmicceramic"

And what is the update you were all waiting for?!

Yes, the transfer papers are back in stock (it is limted however, still it manged to overcome the mail strike and the holidays)

Buy them here!

For those of you who don't remember, here are the tuturials again where I demo how to easily work with the transfer papers.

See you guys next time!
Hilla