Memories of my early childhood are based on senses of taste and smell. Speaking to Chaim Davids, the founder of Prohibition Pickle, I was brought back to the Lower East Side where Sunday evenings were spent inhaling the aromas and ingesting the fabulous offerings of pastrami, corned beef, and chopped liver- with the crunch of […]
A delicate and precise procedure is taking place on a cutting board. The hand guiding the knife is sure and exact. With a swift movement, excess is pulled away, and a beautiful work of art rests in place. Micol Bayer stands back, lifts the paper cut off the board and places it on a colorful […]
I must confess- I’m not an art critic or connoisseur but I know what I like. Please don’t give me cubist blocks or triangles that are supposed to represent a face- Like, I was never good at geometry. AND please don’t tell me that someone throwing buckets of paint off the boardwalk onto a canvass […]
When I look at a rock, I see a rock. Anat Perl, the designer of Blessing Stones can look at a rock and see the creation within. In her mind’s eye, she imagines the form that will emerge, and in so doing she brings the essence of her vision to life. Anat is an artist in varied media.
Color, size, function, personality- just about anything and everything determines the chosen pocketbook for your day. Do you need a crossover just to carry your phone and credit card? Perhaps you need a tote bag to carry your wallet, library book, extra water bottle, tablet and three granola bars?
Have you ever spoken to sunshine over the phone? Well, I did! From the beginning of our conversation till the end, a glow seemed to be hovering over me-and it was still dark outside. ( I call my wonderful ACHI merchants early New York time) Irit Digmi lives in Moshav Michael, between Ashkelon and Kiryat […]
If you can’t bring your own piano- try a tambourine! I’ve spent many years trying to learn an instrument. I am musical but my hands apparently are not-the right and the left don’t communicate with each other. So all those piano lessons in my early childhood(torture), all those do-it-yourself ukulele lessons, all my attempts at […]
No “ouchies” from these PAPER CUTS It’s still dark outside here in the US as I call Lisa Isaacs, resident of Modi’in and charming creator of Handmade in Israel- a business based on beautiful home-made paper cut art- birthday cards, invitations, albums and pictures. Lisa tells me a little bit of her background. Her grandmother […]
I’m a fan of fans- especially Fancy Fans, a business created by Sharon Jerusalmy, purveyor of artistic, hand crafted fans for every occasion. Did you know that there is a secret language of fans? Let’s take a short two hundred year trip back to the Victorian age, and we will find that just as men […]
Highlighting some of our ETSY vendors “What’s in a name?” asks Shakespeare. Was he thinking of ETSY- the world wide platform for arts, crafts and unique gifts? When one of the founders, Rob Kalin was asked how he and his partners thought of the name, he answered-“These are nonsense syllables, which actually don’t stand for […]
Personal interview with Etsy merchant Rina Lutzki-Levy The first purchase I made on the ACHI Market Place was a beautiful woven necklace with seed pearls from Etsy merchant JewelRina. I loved my necklace so much, that I contacted Rina via her site on ACHI: http:// achi613.org/achi-market/vendors/jewelrina-handmade-jewelry and asked if she could make me a bracelet to […]
