Browsing various sites for needlework, sometimesI meet the page with the announcement of the competition. Always happy for the winners. Their work is admirable. Today I decided to show my works. I am the mother of two teenage boys. They are at an interesting age (10 and 12 years). And of course they like to give small gifts to girls. This also pushed me to the occupation now is my hobby - the creation of gifts with my own hands. Today I want to give you one of my works - "Textile Hearts". In the manufacture of my ...

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Souvenir "Tenderness" (panda and elephant) is created from baked polymer clay (plastics) and painted with acrylic paints (a gift to my husband, symbolizes us and the warmth of our relationship :)) Somehow.

My early childhood was still in Soviet timestimes when in shops especially do not clear up with a choice of gifts. I remember that my sister and I got carried away with papier-mache handicrafts, and there were a lot of newspapers and magazines like "Murzilka" at home. For those who do not know: papier-mâché this French word papier mâché translates as a jelly paper. Invented this art as early as the beginning of the 16th century in France. The first items from papier-mache were dolls. Production scale production of dolls reached only a century and a half later. In Russia, papier-mache, like many ...

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