Intermission-" Likes and Friends

Yom Kippur has passed.

                                                          Solitude by M. Chagal  

Isn't this piece of art magnificent? The naïve scenery, the dreams, the hope, the fantasy, the faith, the cow! Then the colors, the power!  All this, both aesthetic and spiritual stream, coming towards the one in front of this great creation.

Anyways, where was I? O.K It is true I owe part two yet but I needed a time out. Waiting for supplies to get here I decided to spend some time studying more about online promotion! You know: how to expose my art, how to add more views to my creation how to make more people to see them and "Like" them on FB get more Likes for my Fan Page.

 Not long ago I was barely involved in FB. The internet world was some research on Google, E-mails, and that was about it. So…with the opening of my Etsy shop I knew that a shop in the biggest market place ever demands a change in my way of thinking, acting, behaving, and reacting… a huge change in me. Still I decided to go for it, not to go but to run. Welcome to the race! 

The race for Friends. Friends? 

For me a friend is a friend. This belief of mine has left me with fifty something friends on Face book. Not a very good base for Fans base. Isn't it. 

I had to convert myself into: Speak a FRIEND and a LIKE and enter

Well the real whirlpool came my way when my eye caught a promise to show me the way to get 10000 Fans in one month and not only that but to get the "real Fans who are the exact audience for your "product".  May be the blame is in the eye drops put in my eyes by the eyes doctor in my appointment. My eye sight was bleary and so was my thinking.  Anyway I stepped right into the trap.

Not even after watching the "free gift" training video, and downloading the PDF files to complete Lesson #1and reading them thoroughly I realized what is happening to me. So tiered and confused, without doing anything about getting 10000 potential customers via FB new Timeline I went to bed hopping tomorrow will bring good new.

Tomorrow brought only another boasting, arrogant e-mail with another tutorial video and some more empty PDF files.  It was then that the coin has clicked. I found a turn in the path, deleted the PDF and went back home to my real friends, to the real me, to my one and only way where my candles are my art, and who really likes them  will find a way to tell me so.

I am not ignoring the stream, I want to express myself by my art and I want to sell as a way of getting feedbacks, make room for more to come and, yes, make some money along the road but now when I jump into the ocean named "internet" I will always put on my protective glasses to help me see the essence lighting up from all the insignificant (for Me) aground it.

                                                    It is so good to be home again!

I got up, made a major cleaning up in my studio and…create some more beautiful candles.

                                               The right perspective this is the key.

And now I'm ready for "Why candles" Part two. See you soon! 

Why Candles of all things (part 1)

This is a question I was asking myself as well as was asked by my friends.

Why really? I am going to try and answer that.

Well, I have been living with candles all my life at least Shabbat (Friday night candles) Hanukah candles and birthdays candles; we sang about them and with them tenths of songs. Votives- memorial candles - we looked at them and absorbed the memories, the sorrows and the heritage. Then emergency candles for power cuts especially in stormy winters which brought tender, a bit shaky, romantic light and added (at list in my memory) lots of cosines to the nights.

Than life have brought me to Costa Rica, a Catholic, Latin country where candles have a major role in the life, the home décor, the culture. I even learned to like eating in a dark candles lit dining rooms. The candles indifferent colors forms shapes and scents became part of our daily life. I fell in love with them.

Not too long ago I found myself stuck as a car on a muddy road. Away from my children, grandchildren, friends, without a "room of my own" to create new things. Stuck even deeper with writer's block not being able to continue the novel I was working on, as being a writer was, and still is my oldest unfulfilled dream. My garage was full of unpacked boxes mostly of art and books. There was no chance, even if I wanted too, to fit everything in the house.

 The car in the muddy road turned into a turtle in the same road with too much stuff in its carried along full house. I trumpled andtreaded and found me higher grounds and there...I so the light at the end of the tunnel.

                                           TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shana Tova (Happy New Year)

Last night the Moon has completed a full cycle around Earth. Today is the first day of a whole new year.

Moonwise this year was special. It came closest to Earth!

As for me it has been a difficult year but no disasters and I am thankful for that. We are all in good health. The children are all on their own way, successful, happy and slowly but surely work out their own dreams.

The grandchildren are flourishing, beautiful and full of joy. They miss me, I am sure, but not too much and I miss them a lot, but… this is how it should be. When we meet we all have the greatest of time. 

 And here I get to the best part of what happened this year. At last I was able to internalize and accept the fact that it is me who has to fulfill my own life, away from my children and grand children and besides my husband, but not within.

So here I am with two new careers: a chandler

 and a seller on Etsy. 

I heard someone posted on FB yesterday that he wishes for himself and everybody else:

"May this coming year be an average one: better than the one passed and a little worse than the on which follows."

This is a nice phrase and I would have put my name on it but I prefer to keep wishing for the Moon for me and all. Neil Armstrong , may he rest in peace, was there and showed us all it is really possible.

Shana Tova to all! 

HOT SUMMER TRAVELING IN MY BEAUTIFUL, SWEATY, CROWDED, BELOVED COUNTRY- ISRAEL

I have just come back from touring Israel in the hit of August. It was sweaty for sure but great anyway.

This time I chose to let the beautiful photos, taken by my husband, the enthusiast and talented photographer, talk. They are better than words. 

Family, how great it was to see them all, hug them, feel them, knowing htey are mine 

We went to the places well known from before and found the only a little bit changed and as beautiful as ever

The matkets with their colors and sounds and smels

From the bluest of seas, the Mediterenian

To the Sea of Galilee (The Kineret in Hebrew) wich might be small and still always in my dreams

The abundance of fresh fruits and vegetables, the hospitality and the food

And I can go on and on until you probably fall asleep, or, die of boredom from all this access of nostalgia but this is where I am coming from and this is my chore of strengths and the source of my inspiration and creativity. This is simply me.