Eden's Album

Eden recently celebrated her Bat Mitzvah and her mum asked me to make an extra special album to mark her big day. Why was it extra special? Well, this album has TWO covers! Mum decided that she would like a book that opens both the Hebrew and the English way (Hebrew books open from right to left). That way all their English speaking family and friends could open it and sign it one way, and their daughter's Hebrew speaking friends could do the other. The album was to have the same design on both sides, apart from the wording which was to be in English and then Hebrew. Look closely below and you can see the two ever-so-slightly different covers.

I think that Eden liked her album, don't you?

Eden loves to read and is a big Harry Potter fan. She's into drama and playing football, and loves sushi and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. She is also a big fan of potatoes, her mum told me. She loves chips, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes and jacket potatoes, so mum asked if I could add some potatoes to the book! I was also asked to include some small pictures of pineapples (a private family joke) and to add some flowers to the cover, since the invitation to Eden's Bat Mitzvah was taking on the theme of the Garden of Eden.
There was plenty to work with.

I have shown Eden with a Harry Potter book in one hand and with a large Reese's Peanut Butter Cup in the other. To her left are two theatrical masks representing her love of drama, and some sushi. To her right is a plate with a potato and some chips on it, a small pile of books, a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup wrapper and a football.

The wording 'Eden's Bat Mitzvah' appears in English along with the date, and then I did the same again in Hebrew. There are pink flowers in two corners of the covers to bring in the Garden of Eden theme.

I decorated several pages inside the album with pineapples, pink flowers and a few themed pages. The first themed page shows a plate with some potatoes and chips on it. I think that it is the first time that I have included a potato in one of my albums! Next is a page with some tiny sushi and chopsticks on it, followed by more Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Another page features two Harry Potter Hebrew book covers and a couple more books, and lastly I added two theatrical masks again. Each page also features a gold Star of David placed on a green background to add a Jewish element to the design.

Eden's mum was kind enough to recommend my album on Facebook. "My daughter absolutely loved the book, which as you can see is customised in both Hebrew and English" she wrote. "All our guests loved signing it and were excited by the different pages which are also beautifully designed."

If anyone is interested in ordering their very own guest book/album, there is a listing for one in my shop.

Oh, and I made a congratulations card for Eden to match the colour scheme of her Bat Mitzvah celebration. The flowers continued the Garden of Eden theme too.

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