Happy Mother’s Day

We are wishing all mothers on Earth all the beautiful things. We wish your life to be filled with love and peace!

A day for your Mother

This Sunday think of making something special for your Mom. Spend the day together, bring her some flowers and take her to her favorite restaurant for brunch. You should also bring her a gift she will really like and maybe watch a movie together or have a fun day at the park, just like at the old good times when you were a child.

Your Mother is very special so tell her you love her!

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Story by Tanya (Socksandmittens)
Photocollages by Katrin (Karisagraphic)

Tutorial how to color dye felting wool with KoolAid

A great way to color or dye felting wool is with KoolAid. It comes in a wide variety of colors that could be mixed up to create even more colors. It doesn’t wash away and is as natural as a food coloring could be. Another great thing about KoolAid is that it can be found in any grocery store in US.

I suggest we start with a few bright colors like red for cherry flavored KoolAid, yellow for Lemon and orange for Orange and a few felted beads of medium size. To read more about the process of creating felted wool acorns please refer to my post on How to make felted wool acorns.

I first made colored water. To make it I added powder from KoolAid packs to the water in a few small plastic containers. As a result I’ve got five containers with brightly colored water. I added approximately a tea spoon of powder to each of the containers. Then I put each of my five beads into a separate container and let the beads suck in the colored water.

One can vary the quantity of powder dispensed in the water to make the solution more or less saturated. As a result beads can turn out of either pale and pastel hues or bright and vivid colors. It makes sense to heat containers with solution and beads in a microwave up to the boiling point for color to fully penetrate the beads. However be careful as beads will be super hot! I usually cool them off in cold water afterwards.

The result is pretty impressive. All of my five beads turned out to be colored differently. The most intensive, bright and beautiful color turned out to be orange. Yellow bead was not that intensely colored but I really like the light lemon color of the bead. They smell of oranges, lemons and cherries! Yummy!

All those brightly colored beads could be turned into acorns or into an acorn wind chime.

This post describes my personal experience with a particular product.
Please be careful trying to replicate the experiment!!!

Tutorial by TonyaUtkina

Mothers Day Contest results

The wonderful Mother's day is approaching and Russian Artists team came up with a cool gift for all of you our dear readers, fans and followers. Why to spend hours looking for a perfect present for your mom? We already did the search for you. Russian Artists team just had a Mother's day gift contest with a large selection of astonishing and beautiful hand made gift ideas for your loved ones. You don't have to search any longer. Just go to Russian Artists Facebook Page where all great gift ideas are already pre-selected for you.

Each Russian Artists team shop could submit one item to the Mother's day contest. Our friendly challenge turned out to be a huge success with 78 team shops suggesting gift ideas for our moms. All of the entries are outstanding, crafted with great care and absolutely unique. The access to the voting page is public so everyone was welcome to cast his or her vote. With so many beautiful items to choose from it was tremendously difficult to make a choice!

Nevertheless three items that received the highest number of “likes” are as follows:

1. Hand crocheted freeform scarf by Allmadewithlove


2. Stained Glass Panel by FleetingStillness


3. OOAK Angel "Saveliy" by timBelinskas


To give you an idea of how many amazing and beautiful items were actually submitted to the contest we decided to feature three more art pieces created by Russian Artists team members. These items were among the most "liked" ones.

Venice, Bridge - Print of Original Artwork by Yury Tarler


OOAK Suede Tote in Coral by FineEmbroidery


White dreamy tulips blank note card by IrinaPhotography


Thank you so much to all of our wonderful and amazing Russian Artists team shops and to everyone who took time to vote and to tell the world about our special Mother's Day team contest!

Vintage Mother's Day graphic

This vintage card is so great, your Mother will love it! Attach it to your gift and lovely roses and cheerful colors of the card will make her day even more delightful!

This image was kindly offered by Katrin (Karisagraphic)

A life of a mother

When I was little I wanted to be held by her all the time; I needed her undivided non-stop attention. When I was a teenager I hated all those “Have you done your homework?” and “Make sure you are home by 9”. When I was heartbroken and miserable I needed her support. I enjoy talking with her when I have time to call. I know she wishes I called more often even though she does not say anything. Being a Mom is a very difficult job that is not always appreciated enough.


If you are a mother I inspire you to celebrate yourself this coming Mother’s day! Take time to appreciate all the hard work you do. Forgive yourself for the things you wish you had done differently. Give yourself credit for the many things you’ve been doing well. Buy yourself something you’ve always wanted. Do something that makes you happy. And don’t forget to call your mom.

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Story by Yana (WineCountryLife)

Photo collages by Katrin (KarisaGraphic)