if i had a shekel for every time i heard that before leaving for israel.
not only do they scrapbook they are amazingly talented and inspiring!
this was the view from just outside my hotel. i don't know what i expected to see but i certainly didn't expect palm trees and the beautiful beach hugging the Mediterranean. i guess it is fair to say i am geographically challenged anyway, but man was it beautiful...and HOT!
i taught workshops with
Birgit Koopsen from Holland
keren scubach, einat kesler, anat divir from israel
the ladies just took all the ideas i presented and ran with them...
and the best part, the israeli's all made their albums backwards...well i guess i was teaching it backwards to them really because they read right to left so all of their fabric albums opened the opposite way...too flipping cool!
here are some of the snapshots from the workshops.
check our birgit's altered inspiration journal!! wow!
on the last day of my stay i traveled on a tour to jerusalem. not being particularly religious myself, i went really just wanting to see the birthplace of religion.
it is filled with an amazing history that one day simply does not do justice to, but i wanted to share the highlights of amazing pieces of history i saw.
the city of old jerusalem is surrounded by a wall and broken up into 4 quarters.
this is the excavation within the walls of old jerusalem...what your looking at is a piece of history buried beneath the current floor that is 2000 years old, the original city.
this is a distance shot of the wailing wall. do you see the barrier running vertically from the wall? that divides the male section from the female. both may not share the same wall space and the woman's side is significantly smaller.
i also added my own message into the cracks of the wall.
because it is a sacred place you must cover your shoulders...thus the reason for the turquoise shall. this is the outside of the church of the holy sepulchre, where in the new testament it says where jesus was crucified and buried.
this is supposed to be the stone that jesus was prepared for burial on
and below the tomb of christ
and these are just some detail shots that made me happy.
thank you so much alice for a wonderful opportunity to meet so many talented israeli woman and to see and experience such a diverse and magical country.
i left with "inspiration" all over me!
