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500-year-old pysanka found
Did anyone else see this article? All hail Pixel, who linked me to it over on FB: http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/163566.html
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Worth repeating
I just said all this, verbatim, over on FB. But the blood is singing in my veins, and I must repeat it here:
I sat down, later than anticipated, for an evening of pysankarstvo. My plan was to assembly-line write three eggs: game hen, duck, and goose. I got all the sketching done, and laid down the first wax on the two smaller shells, and then ( Read more... ) -
Ryans get bored and make stuff
He made a bunch of spindles (newest three pics in the group):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22074948@N02/sets/72157626424488163/
I wrote several more eggs, one on commission and one directly inspired by the commissioned one: spindles, pysanky, spouse, scaPretty things
A little more real content here:
More pysanky from me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22074948@N02/sets/72157622765173372/
And some nifty things Patrick made:Bizarre query #437A and B
Does anybody have a 20-40 yard chunk of red, Aran or worsted weight wool yarn lying around that they can spare?
Also, does anybody have a handful of metal hangers piled up doing unspeakable things in corners (I know about metal hangers, and what they do when left unsupervised!), that they can spare? I need as few as four, as many as eight. [This ( Read more... )Help me, Internet Hive Mind! You're my only hope!
Well, maybe not only, but certainly best!
I have the honor of having a commission for a pysanka. I want to include on it the phrase, "Christ is Risen." In Armenian. A Roman-alphabet transliteration will do, if that's all I find, but, being me, I'd prefer to do it correctly. Anybody know how to write in Armenian script?Showin' off
Everything AFTER the group of six eggs together was completed this week, and is for the By Our Own Hand auction at Birka. I plan on a couple more tonight.
I can still see plenty of room for improvement, but I think I'm getting better at this ...http://www.