Elinor's Album

Elinor celebrated her Bat Mitzvah back in March and I was asked to make an album for her celebration, just as I had done for her sister and her brother. Elinor likes swimming, gymnastics, baking and cake decoration, her Mum told me. She has just finished reading all of The Famous Five and The Secret Seven books by the English children's writer Enid Blyton, and she plays the violin. Mum also added that her daughter has a slight obsession with tornadoes and hurricanes​ (her words, not mine!) and that she also likes unicorns, salt and vinegar crisps, and cucumbers sliced in lemon​.

I have shown Elinor doing the splits on the cover of her album. She is wearing her black calf-length gym pants and the leotard she wears for her gym class. She has some swimming goggles on her head and is playing her violin! To her right is a tornado under a cloud, a unicorn and her favourite salt and vinegar crisps. To her left are two Enid Blyton book covers and a plate of iced cupcakes.
Elinor's name is displayed at the top, along with the words Bat Mitzvah. The date of her Bat Mitzvah celebration is below. The colour scheme for the celebration was going to be pink and silver, so the silver lettering and pink background box matched it perfectly. Two silver Magen David's (Star of David) appear in two corners of the cover, surrounded by shades of pink and purple to match the colour scheme as well.

I also decorated five pages inside the album. After much discussion we decided to feature Elinor's violin, her love of baking, tornadoes, books and some food. I asked Mum which of Elinor's favourite foods I should feature. "Can you do a filet mignon, slices of cucumber, a wedge of lemon and ptitim?" she replied. (Ptitim is a type of toasted pasta shaped like rice grains or little balls developed in Israel in the 1950s when rice was scarce. Outside Israel, it is typically marketed as Israeli couscous, Jerusalem couscous, or pearl couscous.)

Elinor seemed very happy with her album, and Mum wrote to me earlier in the planning and said "You have outdone yourself on the sketch. Incredible!". "Lisa Isaacs albums are a MUST" she later posted on Facebook. Very nice of her.

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