The Tishrei holidays invite us to quite a few meetings around a table set and inviting for holiday meals, sometimes as guests and sometimes as hosts.
If we celebrate this year in a large ensemble and even in a small ensemble, creative table decorations that we will make with our own hands will add elements of festivity and beauty to the table, and will fill us with a sense of satisfaction and pride.
If we share this with the children, we will also gain family activation and fun quality time.
Orly Harel, a designer and lecturer in table design in her brand, "Cinnamon Design with Flavor", offers some ideas for self-creation of runners for the center of the table in the atmosphere of holiday symbols.
"We wish on Rosh Hashanah that we will be the head and not the tail, and you can make a simple runner from a fishing net that can be found in a fishing shop. Blue glass fish that can be found in the markets can be sprinkled on it. New Year's greeting.
"Another option is to write the names of the guests on them and use them as a substitute for seating cards. If the pebbles are dark, you can write on them with a Tipex marker, and on shells and light pebbles you can write with a durable marker."
Placements, greetings, design and photography: Orly Harel
Harel also offers to make placemats and table runners from old greeting cards.
Choose antique-style greeting cards, and in photo shops take them in A3 size. Now we nailed the photos in the store (at a cost of a few shekels per unit), and you have reusable placemats that can be used for holiday meals. "For a long runner by threading colored satin ribbons between the holes. By the way, in the same technique you can create placemats or runners from family photos, and even from drawings and blessings that the children will draw."
Finally, Harel offers to make coasters from old computer disks, which will be viewed in selected pictures: To the sukkah. "
A napkin hug
Interior designer Limor Oren offers some simple and beautiful ideas for creating hugs for homemade cloth napkins, with a classic and clean look.
"Use a light-colored cotton thread and stick its end with cellophane tape for easy threading. Now you can thread beautiful wooden beads on it and tie a bead ring, inside which you can thread the folded cloth napkin. Another option is to thread only one light bead, and attach a short cardboard strip. "And make a hole in the top end for threading. Now tie a butterfly knot around a folded cloth napkin, and attach a small flower bundle between the napkin and the hug."
Napkin holders,
Pine also offers to use small wooden rings that can be purchased at a craft store, as napkin holders, and upgrade them using a strip of cotton thread that is folded in half.
"Thread to the wooden hoop and pull to attach the wire to the hoop, and thread a small bead on each end of both ends. Tie the wire at the end so that the bead does not come out."
Another nice option is to create hugs from rolls of toilet paper, which are cut into rings about three inches wide.
"Start wrapping a cotton thread around the ring, and wrap it until the roll is completely covered. You can add a decoration like a flower, seashell or other accessory using glue, and all that is left is to thread the napkin."
Flower and candle stand,
For the advanced, Oren offers to prepare a stand for candles and flowers that will be placed along the table and in the center, with the help of a long, narrow wooden beam.
Drill in the wood with a drill or screwdriver a few holes in a diameter suitable for alternately stabbing a tall candle and a glass tube (which can be purchased at craft stores).
Make sure there is a space of about ten cm between the candles and the test tubes, then stick them in alternately with holes. The test tubes are filled with water and delicate flowers.
The light of the apple
Gilia Tudoros, interior designer and home styling, offers to surprise and upgrade the holiday table using two of the symbols of the Tishrei holidays, which can easily become design items: the pomegranate and the apple.
"The pomegranate is beautiful and special in shape as well as color, and instead of serving it only as a greeting, it can be replaced with seating notes, and used as a napkin decoration in the center of the personal plate. All you have to do is buy pomegranates as the number of guests.
Apple Light, Design and Photography: Gilia Tudors
"When we want to light up the table, a pomegranate can serve as a great decoration instead of candlesticks. This time we will use a small flower pot container sold in the nursery or stock stores, and stick a flower chain around it with hot glue. The pomegranate should be raised inside the vessel A thin candle should be stuck inside the crown of the grenade. "
The apples can also be used not only for food but also for illuminating design utensils, serving utensils for honey or even a vase.
To turn them into luminous candlesticks, Todoros proposes to create with the help of a knife a wide round dimple at the top of the apple, the size suitable for round heating candles, and then place the heating candles inside the apples - red or green.
Alternatively, you can make a deeper hole in the apples with a sharp tool, and stick a flower arrangement in it at a height that fits the small natural vase.
Finally, the concept of an apple in honey gets a new and beautiful serving variation: "Cut the top of the apple and empty its contents. Put the apples in a bowl of water with a tablespoon of lemon juice for five minutes, so that they do not blacken, and dry them on absorbent paper. The honey is close to serving, and add a cinnamon stick that will add to the decoration as well as the taste. "