Weekend In The City

Hi friends,

How it is going on?

I spent the last weekend in the city, and came across the amazing banana Christmas tree displayed in a market.

Have a nice week and enjoy your shopping!

More fruit New Year trees

 

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Christmas And New Year Soap Carving Crafts

A collection of New Year themed soap carving gifts made to order.

The set of 3 different designs as 2016, Happy New Year and a Snowflake, has been made for my Russian client.

Feel free to contact me for customized soap carving gifts. Worldwide shipping is available.
Mail me to selen15367@yahoo.com with "Soap carving to order" in subject.

Love to create beautiful things and make people happy with what they get.

Enjoy the New Year preparations!

 

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New Year Soap Carving Class - 2016

new year soap gift

 







 

In December we have met in a cozy café to carve new year soap gifts.

 

A carved soap can be a very special present because you design it yourself. You can carve names, numbers, and you can add any images and signs to make your own design.

 



You don't need a mold, but a knife to create anything you like. So we did it at our evening class together with children and their parents.

 

Photos by Irina Nefedova.

 

 Christmas gifts DIY

 

 

 

Knives and tools for soap carving

                         



learn soap carving

 

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Leaf Skeletons - Fall's Soap Craft Project

 

 

Say farewell to fall by making beautiful soap carving crafts. Leaf skeleton is a good idea of a gift in late November. This is what we did in my class in the museum on the last Sunday.

Still thinking where to go on weekends in Yuzhno city? Join my classes in the Chekhov's Book Museum. Take your chance to visit the art gallery and try yourself in soap carving. Next meeting on the 13th of December 2015 at 13:00. Book a ticket at the gallery.

 

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Halloween 2015

Hello, I will be your guide to the castle of  Pumpkin Dracula

Hello,

 

Hope you guys had a great Halloween night. Even if you spent that night at home, I hope you did some pumpkin carvings.

 

I spent the night at the Halloween show in the cinema. Before seeing a horror movie the visitors tried themselves in carving scary faces in fruits. That was a quick class for joy.

 

I am looking forward to having official photographs of the evil party and monsters at my class :)

 

 

Halloween decorations 2015

 

 

 

Halloween carving class

How to carve scary face on fruits



Halloween carving class

 

 

 

 

Halloween streets

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Soap Carving - The ZOO Collection

This is my new project for the Sakhalin ZOO park.  I have designed the soap carving Birds collection for the ZOO gift shop. Today we had a meeting at the shop. They accepted all the soap pieces. More animals images are coming up!



soap carving gifts for the Sakhalin ZOO





At the ZOO gift shop

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Art Of Cubes

My friends have made a portrait of mine with the Rubik's cubes! It's an amazing piece of art made of 240 cubes just in 3 (!) hours. These guys are awesome with speedcubing.

Konstantin and Tatiana, a young family from Moscow, have a hobby called 'speedcubing'. Their 6 year old daughter is very good in solving the twisting puzzle too. "Art Of Cube" is what they do every Saturday morning with all the family together.

At the end of this post you can watch the video how they did that. They are so talented and genius, a super family!

I got my first Rubik's cube when I suppose I was eleven or twelve. I was keen on brain teasing games, so I was given a lot with the different puzzles and task books by my parents and grandparents. I have had several twisting puzzles like a pyramid, Rubik's cube, a magic snake and labyrinth puzzles. The most difficult task to me  was the Rubik's cube. I have no one to explain me an algorithm. I just randomly twisted the cube and it took me 2 years to solve it somehow one day ))

I am impressed by the skills of the family to do such things. That is super cool!
See how they did that.

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Watermelon Basket For Bikers

Watermelon basket could be so much fun when it is designed in a special way for a special person. Alex a birthday guy has been given with the cool "Biker's Watermelon".
It was not easy to make this design. It took me 3 hours to carve the bike because of the complicated design and the hard skin of the watermelon.
I like the finished centerpiece.

watermelon basket wit a motobike

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