Crafts

Where the Ginko Grows

At last, a long-time desire to create a ketubah has been fulfilled! When my husband and I were planning our wedding, I so wanted to create so many things: our invitations, our chuppah, my husbands tallis, the wedding programs, and a ketubah. But as my responsibilities, and creativity grew, time began to run out quickly. My ambitions to create a painting that would both illustrate our dedication to each other, as well as the kind of home we wanted to create started to fade. I needed to be realistic. I had soon forgotten my desire when I fell in love with the beautifully designed ketubah my husband and I picked out at our favorite Judaica store in Boston.

Then recently I received an exhilarating phone call from my best friend: First, she and her partner were planning a formal commitment ceremony! Wonderful news to hear since they have been together for nearly 10 years. Second, they wanted me to design a cross between a Ketubah and a Quaker certificate! So at long last my desire to create something liek this has been fulfilled, and now I have even more ideas: creating name certificates for the little ones in our family, anniversary certificates; my mind is racing with more and ore creative ideas.

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