We sell original art and cds on the virtual pushcart... good for Hanukkah or Christmas...
As I described in my lens about building Uncle Shlomo's Pushcart, we've never actually managed to get the real, physical pushcart out on the street - if we do, you'll hear about it!
But in the mean time, I've gradually been adding items to our online store at Zazzle and this lens will show you some of them and tell a little about how they came to be made.
Only some of my images are featured on this lens. To see them all, visit Uncle Shlomo's Pushcart at Zazzle. Thanks!
UPDATE: This lens received a purple star in November 2009. Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Contents at a Glance
- Hannukah cards: I've done two but I'd like to do more.
- A new Celtic Knot (from the Book of Kells)
- Christmas cards: Uncle Shlomo's Pushcart is ecumenical
Hannukah cards: I've done two but I'd like to do more.
`I painted this picture from an ancient mosaic at the Beth Alpha synagogue in Israel and used it for the cover of my Hanukkah songbook. Then I thought it would make a nice Chanukah card so I added it to my Zazzle store.
So then somebody who visited the Hanukah songbook lens said I should do some more Hanukah cards! So this was my second, the Tree of Life, a song they sing at my temple and it just gets stuck in my head (Germans call that an "earworm"). A new Celtic Knot (from the Book of Kells)
with the Gaelic word for "peace" underneath it...
Christmas cards: Uncle Shlomo's Pushcart is ecumenical
When my daughter and I went to Bulgaria I picked up a bunch of postcards of ecclesiastical designs wrought in Bulgarian monasteries, like this one. It looked so much like the Celtic knotwork I am much more familiar with - I was amazed.Some people think both the Celtic knots and these Bulgarian motifs stem from the Scythians.
I did this one because I was thinking about my young Latina friend Jeimy (I am her mentor) and how annoying it must be for kids of color to see so many white, white images at Christmas time.Click either image to visit the store.
Pushcarts: how quaint and yet perfectly devised!
When Bob and I decided to build a pushcart, we looked at a lot of antique photographs and I liked them so much I painted a few of them.
This was my favorite scene of all: one lonely pushcart sitting out on a pier on a rainy, foggy day...Click either picture to see it at the store.
Hamsa (plural is hamsot) - good luck charms from the Middle East!
We have quite a few of these around the house, so it seemed natural to paint them.
These great cds are all available at Uncle Shlomo's companion store, Skylark Productions
For lovers of folk music, traditional music, and odd songs from around the world
All these recordings, and more, are available at the Skylark Productions website. When you make an order, I go up into my attic, get the cd, bring it down and wrap it up and put a stamp on it and mail it to you. You could say it's a cottage industry.
My favorite Yiddish saying: "If you don't chew bones, your teeth won't hurt."
I have this on my truck. Click it to order...
Earth is Full. Go Home! bumpersticker for the alienated.
click to order.
Egyptian decorative art is mysterious and colorful.
Click either picture to visit the store. Lenses featuring my zazzle, lulu and createspace stores
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Let Memory Keep Us All: a songbook, and a remembrance
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This is a picture of Mitzi, Mona, and Sandy at the Medieval Fair at the Castle McCullough in Jamestown, NC, back in the 1990s, wearing nice outfits we sewed out of cloth we dyed ourselves. There were usually about sixteen people in the Solstice Asse...
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Hamsas - good luck charms from the Middle East
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I first got interested in the hamsa symbol when a friend brought me one from Israel This lens will show you some of my favorite hamsas and places to find more. I got more interested when my daughter was writing a paper on folk religion and the diffe...
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The TJC Hanukah Songbook
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I was music director for the "Cantor Corps" at Temple Judea Reform in Durham and directed the Triangle Jewish Chorale for fourteen years. Before that, I directed a group called the Solstice Assembly which put on many winter shows incorporat...
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A Christmas Songbook: Three Log Night
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This book is a compilation of my favorite non-standard Christmas and Hannukah songs, by which I mean, they are not the top fifteen that cycle endlessly through the mistle-toe garlanded avenues of the malls. In the late 1980s I threw a yearly Christma...
What do you think?
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- GroovyFinds GroovyFinds Nov 30, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
- Fantastic Lens!
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Nov 28, 2009 @ 9:45 am
- These are even prettier because you painted them. Beautiful work!
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- WindyWinters WindyWinters Nov 14, 2009 @ 1:25 am
- Wonderful Art Work. Congrats on your Purple Star! :)
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Nov 11, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
- Thrilled to see that you earned that purple star for such a deserving lens -- just incredible work!
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- theraggededge theraggededge Nov 10, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
- Purple star... purple star! Congratulations. Pretty lens.
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