she`s so skirt!

Elizabeth “Honeybee” Bernstein can’t sit still.

“I’ve had a bad case of the ‘shpilkes’ most of my life,” explains this 88 year-old craftswoman, referring to the Yiddish term for having the fidgets. “I’m always doin’ somethin’.” Her room at Buckingham South Retirement Community overflows with quilts, pillows, clothes, needlepoint baby blankets, doll fashions, decoupaged boxes and painted lamps she’s created over the decades, and those “ain’t even the tip of the iceberg.” Born and raised in Savannah by Russian immigrants, Elizabeth attended the Massey Street School and taught herself how to sew as a teenager. “Whenever I want to make something, I just figure out how to do it.” She owned the Honeybee Doll Shop on Derenne in the ‘80s and is currently at work on a colorful skirt in her small kitchen. As always, she plans to use every last bit of material for a matching pocketbook or hat. “I don’t like to waste a thing!”