Thursday, April 10, 2014

Triangles, Triangles, Triangles

Purim is a Jewish holiday that is celebrated about a month before Passover, so it was in March this year. The kids have gotten too big to really enjoy the Purim carnival, and none of us are really into dressing in costumes, so the only part of Purim that we really enjoy these days is making Hamantaschen, the traditional triangle-shaped cookie. I had always learned that they were shaped to match Haman's hat, but this year my children informed me that they are actually supposed to shaped like Haman's ears. For those of you not familiar with the Purim story, it is the book of Esther, and Haman is the bad guy.

We made Hamantaschen every year when I was growing up, and it's a tradition that I wanted to pass on to my children. When they were diagnosed with celiac a few years ago and couldn't eat wheat, it was hard to find a flour that rolled well and tasted good, but we have made Hamantaschen almost every year anyway. This year, we used Pamela's Artisinal Gluten-free flour and they not only rolled well, they tasted delicious even to the one member of the family who can eat gluten (me). So, it was a huge success.

I made 2 scrapbook pages, one for each boy's scrapbook. On each page, I documented the actual flour that we used (so we don't forget) and his favorite flavors. Since the cookies have a triangular shape, I used lots of triangle shapes on my pages, using Echo Park's Ombre collection for the background. I also made little Hamantaschen embellishements by punching a circle from kraft cardstock, filling it with dimensional paint, folding the edges into a triangle, and inking the edges to simulate baking.

Here's Zachary's page, which use this sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap.

Benjamin's page is quite similar and I used this sketch from Sketch-n-Scrap. I found this site very recently and really like their sketches.




Thanks for looking!

14 comments:

  1. Love your triangles and wonderful take on the sketch! Thanks for joining us at Sketch n Scrap!!! :) Evie

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  2. How awesome is it that you incorporated the triangles into your layouts in so many interesting ways! I was very interested to learn of you tradition, I had never heard of it before. Thanks for sharing it with us and thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  3. Super takes on both sketches and love the use of the triangle backgrounds. Looks like your boys really enjoyed the cookie making! Thanks for sharing your wonderful pages with us at Sketch N Scrap. xx

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  4. Such fun stories and photos. Love that you incorporated the triangles. Thank you playing along with us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  5. I love how the photos, design and colors compliment each other! Thank you for joining us at Sketch~n~Scrap!

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  6. Great pages. Love the triangles. Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap.
    Surama

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  7. Wonderful layouts! I love the papers, thanks for sharing with Sketch-N-Scrap

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  8. Both of these are fabulous!!! Great pics too!
    Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap :-)

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  9. Cute!! Thanks for playing along with us at Sketch N Scrap!!

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  10. love what i have seen here so far... and so glad you like sketches..

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  11. Fantastic layouts and so glad you are enjoying the sketches. That is just what Lisa and I want to hear!!! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Sketch N Scrap! :)

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  12. Love the tradition! Thank you for sharing with us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  13. Great layouts! Glad you are scrapping your family traditions! Thanks for joining us at Sketch N Scrap!

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  14. Fabulous layout, both of them! I've never had Hamantaschen but I spy a bottle of Nutella on the table in the first layout, so it seems like something that would be right up my ally! :)

    Thanks for playing along with us at Sketch N Scrap this month!

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