Costumes for Midburn

I made this butterfly dress and headress

Spontaneously made this necklace for my husband

Ok, so didn't make the bodysuit, but I did make the body halter (that lit up!)

Alice in Wonderland Camp, Midburn

I designed the family camp at Midburn 2015... Hosted some workshops and had some help from lots of lovely people

Our sign and rabbit hole entrance

My awesome giant lit mushrooms!

Our salon by day:

Our salon by night:

Amazing painting by Rotem Omri

Alice in Wonderland: caterpillar on mushroom paper mâché

Part of any Alice in Wonderland set design needs a mushroom with a smoking caterpillar! So to make the basis of my caterpillar, I stuffed newspaper balls into a stocking.

Now for the mushroom:

I am using another florist bucket , but wanted more height as I want this to be bigger then the other mushrooms... So I added 2/3 of an ice tea bottle- cut it and taped it on. 

I then used a bent but damaged piece  mdf that I had been keeping outside for a few years (always knew I would find something to do with it!) and cut a round shape from it. Taped it all together with duct tape. 

I then inserted a bamboo rod through the mdf into the bottle, this is to give support to my caterpillar.

And here is the caterpillar now sitting proudly on top:

Now it's ready for the paper mâché!

Alice in wonderland decor- paper mâché mushrooms - part 1

I am designing our camp at Midburn - Israel's regional Burning Man festival... Our theme- Alice in Wonderland... So first project : paper mâché mushrooms...

I just looked around my house for things to use as a base for the project and found many items that can be used as the mushroom stalk- a cardboard poster roll, whisky bottle box - here I am using some plastic florist containers as I found them 3 years ago on the side of the street and am finally using them - for something! I turn them upside down- then just used a plastic plate at the base for the top of the mushroom. I then duct taped the play to the container.

Next I wanted to give the mushroom some more height, so I used some EVA foam that I had lying around. 

Then I filled it out on the edges with newspaper and duct taped it all on

Now it's ready for stage 2: paper mâché

Watch this space!

Development tower

I followed a tutorial online to make this development tower. Saraya loved it!

Personalised pillow

I love making gifts for friend's new babies.

Play kitchen for my toddler

So a few months ago, I began the task of building a play kitchen for my 2 year old.

I started with 2 ikea rast night stands and with the help of my carpenter friend ( and the use if his tools!) I made this:

I love that I used the same grey tiles for the splash back as in my real kitchen. Needless to say, my daughter loves it!