Amazing paper sculptures

These creations are made by a couple of Russian designers - Aleksey Lyapunov and Lena Erlikh. Please visit their site for more amazing works! I am in awe - the precision and the detail is breathtaking.

Idea: Tin Foil Christmas village

Found this on one of the Russian crafting sites, and fell in love with this idea. Seems that all you pretty much need is some embossing soft metal/foil (I believe most well-stocked craft stores would have something like that).







The site does warn against using candles, even tea lights, near a Christmas tree. I would suggest actually going without fire, but instead invest in some fake tea-lights, which are basically small LED lights, shaped like tea lights, and even have that artificial candle-like flicker. They usually come with batteries as well!

Ideas: Recycle into fun and beautiful useful things

1. This is a simple but pretty unique and elegant way to organize earrings, using just a few easy-t0-find items.

All you need is a pretty fingerless glove.

And a bottle of any size.

"Dress" the bottle in the glove, wrist opening down. Use a few stitches to secure on the bottom. You can just fold the top neatly to tuck the material and secure with a pretty ribbon.


You can use a variety of containers, including a simple plastic cup, to store various jewelry items.




2)Got left over embroidery yarn and not sure what to do with it? Make Christmas ornaments!


Found on Russian craft blog knitly.com

3) Used light bulbs recycled into elegant flower vases.

Carefully saw off the end of the lightbulb and take out the "guts". Make holes on the metal sides, so you can hang them.

Eggshell ornaments - diaramas

Found this "gem" on one of the russian blogs. The link includes instructions on how to make it as well.
Now I want to try and make my own. Maybe I will. =)