How I painted a salty cake painting. No eggs in the painting, just in the cake itself.

I’m older than my mother. How can that be? For years, my mother would say she was 21+. I remember when someone asked her age, she would reply: 21+. At my wedding I remember her face grimacing when I attempted to tell someone her age. I’m 45. I have no problem saying that: I’m 45. [...]

Jill teaches art in Highland Park. Stay tuned for Leora’s attempt at a “salty” painting. Salting is a fun technique for adding texture to your watercolor painting. It works by absorbing water and pushing away the pigment around each grain of salt. You just use regular table salt, but the larger grain Kosher salt can [...]

I had great fun this past week creating a new header for a popular blog called: A Mother in Israel If you are interested in parenting, breastfeeding, interviews with other bloggers, life in Israel, burkas or potato kugel, mom in Israel has a lot going on. Mom emailed me a variety of pictures; the final [...]

What do you do when you only have one potato in the house? Or two? And the potato is a beautiful red potato (called new potato), no little growths popping up at all, smooth-skinned and welcoming? First, if you have a five-year-old who is learning how to count or add, you play one potato, two [...]