While browsing various craft sites, sometimesI see pages with an announcement about the competition. I'm always happy for the winners. Their work is admirable. Today I decided to show my work. I am the mother of two teenage boys. I have them at an interesting age (10 and 12 years old). And of course they like to give small gifts to girls. This prompted me to take up what is now my hobby – creating gifts with your own hands. Today I want to present to your attention one of my works – "Textile hearts". In making my…

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Souvenir “Tenderness” (panda and elephant)created from baked polymer clay (plastic) and painted with acrylic paints (a gift to my husband, symbolizes us and the warmth of our relationship :)) Something like that.

My early childhood was during the Soviettimes when there is not much choice of gifts in stores. I remember my sister and I became interested in crafts made from papier-mâché, thanks to newspapers and magazines like “Murzilka.” there were a lot of houses. For those who don't know, papier-mâché is the French word papier mâché translated as chewed paper. This art was invented at the beginning of the 16th century in France. The first papier-mâché objects were dolls. The production of dolls reached production scale only a century and a half later. To Russia papier-mâché, like many…

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