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At the beginning of May Soniya had her 2nd birthday. And what birthday, especially, the kid’s one, without a cake?! But I did not want to buy a cake in some store (as recently I’ve been coming across articles and TV progs about the products which can do harm to our health). And I did not have any time to make the cake myself!… Finally I remembered what cake can be quickly made for the festive table.

On a plastic bag (you’ll know why you need a plastic bag a little bit later), put Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, birthday cake, children, holidays, kids, recipe, Russian cuisine
The baby’s first birthday is an important landmark in the child’s his parents’ life. We try to make the little one happy and to organize everything in such a way for the event to be a good memory. Though Soniya’s and Arseny’s first birthdays are left far behind, it’s always interesting for us to learn how this holiday is celebrated in other families. Here is what one of our friends, mother Olga, has told us:
“The season of first birthdays has come to the yard of our house (where all the mummies walk with their babies). We’ve got about 20 kiddos of the same age, most of whom have got birthdays in April. So, 8-11 mummies with babies are gathering now from time to time at someone’s apartment to celebrate this important date.
The First Birthday of Little Olga
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Tags: birthday, children, holidays, ideas, kids
We are starting a new Project in our blog:
Very Creative Person.
Interview and tutorials with creative people
And today we are inviting you to meet Nadezhda, a mother of two sons, Silvestr (3,5) and Makar (2). Actually, you already know Nadezhda as some time ago she told us how to make design paper in home environment. And today she’ll tell us how to make beautiful and healthy soap both for children and parents, such soap that is a little work of art. It can be a great homemade gift!

Nadezhda with her elder son Silvestr
Parents’ Ideas: Nadya, could you, please, tell us how you learnt that it is possible to make soap in home environment?
Nadezhda: I learnt about such soap by chance – saw it in the Internet. My sister presented me with a woolen set for children and when I was looking for the material about wool there was soap among the other woolen abundance. Very artistic and it attracted me immediately. There was soap rolled in wool and soap which was just soap.

Soap “A Tasty Thing”
P.I.: How did the idea to make soap occur to you? Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, home, ideas, parents, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
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.

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Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
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.

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Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, Women's Day
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:

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Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
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
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
So, we will need: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
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 :

One more:

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
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Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day
It’s already the fifth day of spring! Let’s maintain spring atmosphere in our blog, too! We’re presenting you one more style of cards within the framework of our project “Homemade Cards and Gifts – Interesting Ideas Every Day!”
Unique Homemade Cards
The central element of this card is a skeletonized leaf. Do not be scared by the name. Such leaves are called so in flower shops (at least in Russia).

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Tags: birthday, cards, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, holidays, ideas, presents, Women's Day
We’d like to present you a third card in our project “Homemade Cards and Gifts – Interesting Ideas Every Day!”
Have you ever thought of an additional functionality of the hole punch?
Cheerful Homemade Cards
The idea of this card is not only in laborious work (though I somehow managed to glue all these circles when our little daughter was nearby – I gave her some of the circles for her own, tot’s, card
) ). The composition and the texture of the materials are also important in the card.

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Tags: birthday, cards, children, christmas, crafts, Creative Work, design, DIY, do-it-yourself, early-childhood development, holidays, ideas, kids, New Year's Eve, presents, St. Valentine's Day, Women's Day