Give the Easter Bunny some competition! Supplement your income with decorated Easter eggs. Ukrainian egg patterns are a beautiful, traditional craft. For over 2,500 years, the art of egg decoration ...

Creating traditional Ukrainian Easter eggs is not for the faint of heart. The process can take two to four hours, even for the simplest eggs, instructor Bernadette Thorwart said Saturday morning in ...

Of all the Easter traditions, one of the most common is the Easter egg. Whether it's decorated eggs with watercolor paints, chocolate eggs given out as treats or plastic eggs filled with candy, the ...

CHICAGO -- 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 ...

For the nearly two-thirds of Ukrainians who identify as Orthodox Christians, Easter is known as Velykden, meaning “Great Day” in Ukrainian. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine calculates the date of Easter ...

Johanna Kovitz has been decorating raw eggs with drawings - using bee's wax and dyes - for about 35 years. On Palm Sunday, she shared the traditional Ukrainian craft of pysanka during a demonstration ...

At the Hazard Branch Public Library in Syracuse 17 adults learned how to decorate Pysanky, Ukrainian Easter eggs. They were taught by Anna Perun, who came to the United States from Ukraine in 1991. In ...

With Easter approaching this Sunday, and amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, renewed interest is arising in one of the country's most celebrated Easter traditions. Think you're good at coloring eggs with ...

CHICAGO — 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 ...

An American-born daughter of Ukrainian refugees, Sofika Zielyk has dedicated her life to keeping the heritage of her parents’ homeland alive. The artist and ethnographer specializes in creating and ...

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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 ...