For almost a month already there has been The Crafts around the World series at the marvelous web-site The Crafty Crow. We, the authors of the Parents’ Ideas were very honoured to introduce Russia in this Project presenting illustrated tutorials of a dish and a craft among such countries as India, Turkey, the Netherlands, South Africa and many others. We are very grateful to Cassi, the author of The Crafty Crow, for inviting us to participate in the Project.

If you’d like to learn more about Russia and to learn how to make typically Russian Clay Toys be sure to visit The Crafty Crow.

Anastasia and Natalie

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Russians love making and eating vareniki – a kind of stuffed dumplings. When vareniki are being made collectively (by friends or members of the family, especially together with kids), it is so much fun to make and eat them!

Vareniki. Recipe

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Tip of the Day

While we were making cards in the network of our project “Homemade Cards and Gifts”, our readers were sharing their tips and ideas with us. For example, reading about this card Nadezhda told us how to make design paper in home environment.

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Homemade Design Paper

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  • A craft for kids of 1,5-4: we stuck leaves & flowers made of plasticine to broken branches. A cheerful spring activity! #ananas #
  • How to make dolls in an egg shape http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/2009/03/craft-tutorial-hina-doll-set.html #
  • We got much pleasure from our walk: fell down into the snow and compared our imprints – for 22 mo tot it is an important discovery! #ananas #
  • After working with clay, our daughter was so-o peaceful as if she got positive energy from clay (natural material) #ananas #
  • We modeled from clay with our 22 mo tot for the first time. I hadn’t expected it would be so exciting for such a little one #ananas #

The International Women’s Day, March 8, has passed but the desire to create is still here! :)

Our project “Homemade Cards and Gifts – Interesting Ideas Every Day!” would not be complete if we did not share one more type of cards with you (which will finish our project). Such a card is both a card and a gift!

Homemade Embroidered Cards

Such a card will remind the person who you presented it with about it for a long time: thanks to its format, it is also a bookmark.

embroidered handmade cards

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Today is March 8 – the International Women’s Day in Russia and in many other countries. It is a holiday of the sun, joy, femininity, coziness, warmness and beauty. And we wish all of you, dear ladies, adult and young, a spring sun within and around!

What can the card made on March 8 look like? Of course, it should be cheerful! Shining! And quick in preparation! And it is much desirable that the card should be made from such things which can be found not leaving home.

Homemade Cards Made of the Materials Found at One’s Fingertips

Our daughter and I made this camomile from a muffin cup and bay leaves (in Russia they are used for cooking soup). The background is yellow velvet paper.

Homemade Cards: We Wish You Love and Beauty!

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One more kind of cards which we would like to present you in the network of the project “Homemade Cards and Gifts – Interesting Ideas Every Day” are 3D cards.

The materials needed for such cards are the following: dense white paper, dense colour paper, a pencil, a knife for paper.

Homemade 3D Cards

What 3D Cards Can Look Like? Here are some ideas:

Homemade Cards: 3D Cards

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  • We’ve just discovered colour foil-coated paper: it can add something special to any appliqué work #ananas #
  • “Who lives on the apple?”: tot glues colour paper for notes on an apple of cardboard, I draw animals on it and she guesses who it is #ananas #

Soon cherry will start blossoming in our country – in about a couple of months :) . And in Japan, sakura – a Japanese ornamental cherry tree – has almost broken into blossom (in the south of Japan blossoming start on about March 12). So, we suggest you enjoy the “hanami” – Japanise holiday of admiring blossoming sakura – right now :)  

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And not only to admire but also to create your own Japanese garden – on a card :) . And then to present it – together with some, exquisite in a Japanese manner, gift :)

Exquisite homemade cards

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Today’s card is quite unusual. Three-dimensional and movable. And at the same time it has fully preserved the functions of the traditional card: it is made of paper and inside there are felicitations and warm wishes. And, of course, you can present somebody with it! And it will serve for a longer time than the usual card. So, here it is - card-mobile in “twitter” style :

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One more:

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May be, those who regularly read our blog have noticed that we have recently widened our presence in the Internet and now we are also writing in “Twitter”. And today we suggest You to make your own “home Twitter”. Look, there are pipes made of paper where you can see the birds known to many :) , many-coloured sheets of paper. You can write warm wishes on the occasion of holidays on them (as it is a card!) and when the holiday has passed why not continue using this mobile as a carrier pigeon … for the exchange of letters :) . Just remember Read the rest of this entry »

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