Shirel's Album

Shirel celebrated her Bat Mitzvah back in June. She is very athletic and loves many different sports but her main "thing" is football which she has played since she was 5, her mum told me. She also did a swimming class for a few years and plays basketball now too. She takes horse riding lessons, plays the guitar, likes listening to music and loves baking, particularly working with a piping bag making cakes and cupcakes. Shirel also did a baking project for her Bat Mitzvah to raise money for her local synagogue. Phew! I was not short of themes for the cover of her Bat Mitzvah album!

Shirel's favourite colour is aqua and the colour scheme of her Bat Mitzvah celebrations were going to be aqua, light purple and gold. While she is very sporty, mum was keen to point out that she also is "girly" and is very into styling her hair in different ways, makeup and nail polish. She wanted me to feature that very girly side of her daughter too.

Mum chose to have the album open the Hebrew way (Hebrew books open from right to left) and have most of the details in Hebrew but with Shirel's name in English too. I have shown Shirel in a blue shirt, with a football tucked under one arm and her guitar in the other. To her right is a brown horse with patches of white, just as she requested. In front of her is a piping bag and some cupcakes. To the right of the guitar is a basketball. She is wearing goggles on her head to represent her love of swimming and some music notes dotted around illustrate that she likes music too.

I decorated 5 pages inside Shirel's album as well. The first page featured a football and a basketball, representing her love for both those sports. Next I added a green boogie board, since mum told me that she likes boogie boarding at the beach. Some light purple swimming goggles, representing her love of swimming, appeared on that page too. Baking came next, with some little cupcakes and a piping bag, then I cut out a classical guitar, just like the one she is holding on the cover of her album. Finally I crafted a brown horse with white patches once again. I hope it looks just like the horse she enjoys riding.

Mum seemed delighted with her daughter's Bat Mitzvah album and told me that that Shirel loves it too. "It is beautiful!" she wrote to me.

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