One. On Nov. 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall was opened, it was a great event of the fall of the Iron Curtain, the 20-th anniversary of which will be celebrated.
The “Iron Curtain” of concrete walls, fortified fences and heavily armed borders marked a physical and ideological divide in Europe from the end of the Second [...]

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From time immemorial I knew that a doll plays an important role in a girl’s development as well as a machine toy for a boy’s .
Playing with the doll the girl tried to make clothes for her, dress-undress, put her to bed,  even dance with her, it’s her first close friend besides Mom. The girl [...]

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Handy craft is an art, and a handy-man or –woman is an artist. One has to make a plot first, design, prepare a material and then start to make one’s idea come alive.
In time of my teenage years the prices for ready made clothing were high but the cost of fabric was always lower. So [...]

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Once I was visiting an old lady’s house here, in Calgary. It was a house as a regular house like everybody else has. Nothing special until I ran into one wall ornament. It was a quilt, home-made, neatly sewn in a big joyful frame made in a quilt style too. I started to look more [...]

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When Halloween days are over the people start to think about Christmas. All American and Canadian newspapers are full of articles of how much the customers, i.e. we, are spending for Christmas gifts. How big is the customers’ shopping basket? It is understandable for the consumers’ society where we live.                                                             
But my workshop is [...]

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