EVERY YEAR I put up an Easter tree. It’s a humble thing, just a few branches gathered on dog walks and adorned with pastel papier-mâché eggs my mother gave me. But this year, as my garden in Los ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ukrainian Easter egg, known as a pysanka egg, immediately catches your eye. Characterized by their unique and intricate ...

Maria Fedachtchin’s fingers trembled a bit as she etched the first intricate lines of beeswax along the smooth, unblemished shell of an egg cradled in her palm. She’s learning to design pysanky, the ...

For Amy Nolan Andrews, any day is a good day for dying eggs. As Easter nears, though, her creative coloring of eggs does ...

"Ukrainians are wearing their embroidery even more now than before," said Gloria Paproski Horbaty, of Wallingford.

Hours before she was scheduled to address the crowd gathered at the Dayton Art Institute, Christina Pereyma learned that Russia had just invaded Ukraine. The date was Thursday, February 24, 2022. The ...

Egg decorating is always a fun project for kids, but can be just as much fun for adults. The most familiar is the dyed colored Easter eggs using food coloring or the kits found at the local store.

YARDLEY, Pa -- Basia Andrusko has been writing Pysanky since she was a child, etching ornate designs on everything from chicken, finch and quail eggs to ostrich, emu and rhea eggs. Pysaty comes from ...

In the basement of an art center in Hamilton, where the only windows look out at concrete walls, Lori Kay Farr holds up a hollow egg. Standing in front of a dozen women, Farr tells them about her blue ...

Artist Anna Chychula, second from right, shows workshop attendees design elements in creating Ukrainian pysanky eggs at the Ukrainian National Museum. A collection of ornately decorated Ukrainian ...

POTTSVILLE – As she admired the delicate colors and patterns of the pysanky egg she cradled in her hands, Haidyn Neifert smiled. “I really like it,” the 13-year-old from Schuylkill Haven said. Neifert ...

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