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They’re here- New ketubah group up!

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 17:17:02 +0000

They’re Here!

So, three monkey-work filled weeks later, we finally have the new Jill Sykes ketubah group up. So worth the wait, though, don’t you agree? Look here..and here… and here … and here… and here!

new ketubah work coming…eventually!

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:41:14 +0000

There is truly only so much matzoh you can eat. Bread of affliction indeed.

I’ve hit a bit of a holding pattern introducing Jill’s new ketubah work. Seems our web site needs an entire overhaul in order to make it go again. Grrr.

Meanwhile, I thought I’d share the rest of the ketubah collection here. I am so excited about this work- the samples look fantastic. We’ve changed proportions and gone all kinds of crazy with layouts. Jill is thrilled too. I stopped by her studio on the day of the Brewery Artwalk when she had her open studio to show her the new samples. It’s so rewarding to work with her- she just lit up when she saw them! Makes the hard work worth it.

If you see something here that you love and can’t wait for it- I know weddings wait for no man or web master- just contact me and we’ll make it happen. I truly hope we’ll be there in a week or so. I wonder if a small sacrifice to the computer gods is in order?

Reverie ketubah by Jill Sykes

Tangerine ketubah by Jill SykesGold Meander ketubah by Jill Sykes

Spirit Voices ketubah by Jill Sykes

Beneisons-ketubah by Jill Sykes

ketubah artist Jill Sykes’ open studio!

admin — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:38:41 +0000

Hi All-

I thought you’d like to know that Jill Sykes, the incomparable artist whose ketubah work we produce here is having an open studio next weekend- March 31 and April1. It’s part of the Brewery Art Walk which happens twice a year. The Brewery is a Los Angeles artists’ community where we used to live, before the house in the suburbs and the adorable child. If you have a chance to go down there you’ll be able to see hundreds of artists’ work, eat some tasty grub and maybe get a great deal on a cool piece of art.

Definitely check out Jill’s studio- her paintings are just luminous in person!

Jill Sykes- our own ketubah artist is having an open studio!

New Ketubah designs coming

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:04:10 +0000

I’m working on a new Jill Sykes ketubah collection- 4 new designs, each more lovely than the last. I hope to have them for sale in a week or so, but to give you a little sneak peek…

The one called ‘Beneisons’ is a piece she did this past summer for her own son’s wedding. She also designed some truly elegant wedding invitations based on this piece- Stunning!

More on the other two ketubahs to come…

jill sykes ketuubah design- as yet untitled

Jill Sykes ketubah design- 'Beneisons'

metal ketubahs not in my future, but…

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:15:31 +0000

Good morning! It’s been a while since I posted but I have not been completely idle. Just otherly directed.

To shake things up a bit, I’ve been playing with new materials. I don’t think they will end up being ketubahs, but in my experience it’s the little deviations you make on your path that end up making the biggest differences in your life.

A few months ago I designed a plaque for my neighbor and we executed it in laser cut stainless steel. It was a (computer) hand lettered sentence in Hebrew and English. It was so much fun to work in steel again it got me excited to try some more projects using lasers. There is such a thrill to seeing something that was only a drawing on a computer screen manifested in the world as a solid metal object.

My husband has a 3-d printed metal sculpture that is mind blowing. It’s the kind of thing that makes me want to go back in time and actually pay attention in math class- you actually CAN use algebra in real life!

laser cut plaque-non-ketubah art

Shana Tova from New World Ketubah!

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:04:57 +0000

Hi All! We are running around trying to get ready for yet another holiday here, but I just wanted to pause and wish all my lovely newlyweds and soon to be newlyweds a happy new year. If this is the year you are getting married, you know it’s going to be a big one, but even if it isn’t, if you are a few years in or not quite there yet, I wish you many blessings, and every happiness imaginable.

Lots and lots of love from the whole team here-

Rachel, Jill, Tamara and Cecil

shana tova-happy new year- from new world ketubah

My life as a jewish parable…again.

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:42:51 +0000

I finally feel better today than I have in weeks. It was some raging form of bronchitis that did me it. Four weeks ago, we had a four year old friend over, who was coughing a bit. Then a few days later, Mena came down with it, and of course in perfect three year old form, proceeded to share the love by coughing and sneezing DIRECTLY into our faces, even up our noses to transfer the germs most efficiently. Usually it’s my husband who comes down with everything Mena drags in (I have been known to be quite smug on this account- ha!) but this time I got it first- and how. So. Three weeks of wheezing and hacking up some alarming looking- um- bio-products? Anyway. I am not a good patient and wailed about my reduced condition to whoever would listen.
Time dragged until finally I woke up today, feeling better! It’s like the clouds have parted and a joyous chorus of flying monkeys are singing hosannas and playing harps. My normal level of energy (not ever very high) now feels like a mighty herculean force!
There’s an old Jewish story about the guy who goes to his rabbi to complain about his living situation. He says ‘Rabbi, I live in a tiny house with my wife and children and in-laws. It’s just one room and we are so crowded we need to sleep in shifts! Please help me.’
The Rabbi asks him- ‘Do you have chickens?’
The man say- ‘I do.’

The Rabbi instructs the man to bring the chickens into the house to live with him and come back in a week. Of course when he returns his despair is even greater- now in addition to the people in his house, the chickens are driving everyone crazy. The Rabbi instructs the man to bring his goat into the house. So the next week, the man returns in true distress, what with the chickens and the goat and the chaos they create. The Rabbi says ‘Bring in your donkey’. The third time the man returns he is distraught beyond belief. The Rabbi says- ‘Ok, now, get the chickens, the goat and the doneky out of your house.’
The man returns the next day to the rabbi in great high spirits. His house is suddenly huge and quiet, with only his wife, children and in-laws in there! How can he ever thank the rabbi?
That’s how I feel, now that that darned donkey has finally moved out of my lungs….
Happy Summer Everyone!

Yellow Bird of Happiness...and Health!

Elves, and other ketubah helpers

admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:56:57 +0000

I’ve been thinking about that damned shoemaker a LOT lately. I maight be missing the meat of the story, and I haven’t actually looked it up, but to the best of my recollection, there’s a shoemaker who doesn’t actually do his own work, or does it partially, and then at night while he’s sleeping, a bunch of elves come in and do his work- really really well- for him. He wakes up, reaps the benefit of someone else’s labor and becomes wildly successful. I think I have the basics correct here, right?

So, what I want to know- universe, I’m talking to you here- is where are my elves? I have a pile of work to do, no bandwidth to get it all done and yet when I wake up (waaay to early, thank you Miss Mena) it’s all there waiting for me. Not done.

Elfin assistance notwithstanding, I have actually been busy and am posting weeks and months later to share.

First-an AMAZING new artist- Tamara Jones- has joined my little coven here. (if I ever get my husband to sit down and contribute some of his awesome artwork, I’ll have to rename that, but until then, coven sounds appropriately magical, no?)

Tamara is an incredible artist who has been hiding her huge talent under a bushel. We have known her for some time, but it wasn’t until she walked into our studio to discuss printing some of her work (we print local artists’ work here from time to time) that I saw what she was doing. Of course I was all over her in a minute, demanding to grab her juiciest work for New World Ketubah. We worked together onteh collection a few months back and came up with something we are both very excited about. The Tamara Jones Ketubah collection is so lovely- her colors just boggle and the complexity and layering of her botanical images just get you lost in the images. Veil of Flowers is a favorite, but I love them all.

Next- Budget Ketubahs! Already up and running, but I haven’t really written about them yet. Next post.

Now I’m going to hunt me up some elves…

Ketubah by Tamara Jones- Lace of Flowers

Ketubah by Tamara Jones- Veil of Flowers

Ketubah by Tamara Jones- Pink Lily

Ketubah by Tamara Jones- LilyPad with Flowers