How to clean the wax off your Chanukah Menorah

One of my favourite customers sent me this email, I thought I'd share it with you.

Hi Laura
Hope you are well. I have one of your lovely Cone Hanukka Menorahs that Greg bought me for my wedding. It's the one with all the colourful cones. I was wondering how to clean all the wax off it - any tips?
Thanks
Alexis
   
Hi Alexis.
Lovely to hear from you. The best way is to heat the wax with a hair dryer and clean it off with a kitchen towel and use Q-tips (ear buds) if you need to get into the candle bits. Or you can put it in the sink and pour boiling water over it, the wax should just pop out of the candle holders, but it can get a bit messy.
The most important thing is not to attack it with a knife! It could scratch the finish.
Laura

Hi Laura
That's brilliant - thanks. All done and looks like new!
Shabbat Shalom
Alexis
x


Quick note - If you have one of my stainless steel magnetic menorahs, the best way to shine up the base is with regular vinegar (this also works for fridge doors, and is much more efficient and cheaper than any special steel cleaner!)

How to make Chocolate Brownies

Just made really good chocolate brownies with Lia. The "secret" ingredient is raw tehina. This is a staple in the average Israeli fridge, not sure how easy it is to find elsewhere. Here's the recipe, it's really easy. Sorry for the grams and celsius dear Americans! Here's how to make chocolate brownies, with a taste of Israel.

Ingredients

100 g 60% dark chocolate
100 g butter
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup flour
Splash of milk
1 tbsp tehina (more if you like it)
1 heaped tsp cocoa
Chocolate chips for decoration.

Method

Melt the chocolate with the butter in a bowl over a saucepan if hot water (bain marie) Transfer to a large bowl and stir in the rest of the ingredients.
Pour into a medium sized lined tin and sprinkle with chocolate chips.
Bake for 18 mins at 180 celcius

June 25% Jewish Wedding Gifts Discount!

June is for weddings and I’m experiencing wedding fever in the studio this month!
I know many of you buy my designs as jewish wedding gifts, and as a show of appreciation I’d like to offer you a 25% discount for the next 2 weeks.

In order to receive your discount just write “Wedding Discount” in the comment box that pops up when you follow the Buy Now buttons on my website http://www.lauracowan.com/
To complete my wedding offer I’d like to offer complementary gift wrapping and card.

I’ll also be delighted if you use the discount for any design you have had your eye on for a while for yourself!
Look forward to hearing from you!

Laura

These elegant and original Shabbat Candlesticks make a great Jewish wedding gift for a newly married Jewish couple

Mezuzahs in Space

You may remember that last year the American astronaut Greg Chamitoff took two of my rocket shaped mezuzahs, the Apollo and the Shuttle on a NASA expedition to the International Space Station. Since astronauts only get to travel with a small amount of possessions, I was flattered that 2 were my mezuzahs!

As the mezuzahs travelled to space, the story travelled round the world, appearing in newspapers from New York to Moscow, Israel to France, and of course on the web. I was interviewed on Israeli radio and a news crew from the Israeli/ Russian RTV news team even came and filmed me working in the studio.

I heard from Greg recently and he was kind enough to send me this picture of my Shuttle mezuzah (side view) floating in zero gravity!

What a view!

Here's a closer view of the two mezuzahs

Pesach Give Away - Win an Image Mezuzah

Pesach Giveaway!



Take part in a lottery to win one of my latest designs - a modern Image Mezuzah.

I created this modern mezuzah range using my private collection of travel photographs and original graphic designs, including:


A stunning Bocas Del Toro seascape


An ancient Thai ceiling painting


An image of a mezuzah scroll


All you have to do is comment below telling me what is your favourite piece of Laura Cowan Judaica and send me an email to info@lauracowan.com (so that I will be able to notify you if you are the winner)


At the end of the week I'll pick all the names out of a hat and announce the winner.

Good luck everyone and Hag Sameach.