Kalyna, Nick and Fuzz like to make Christmas gifts rather than buying them.  Some years they’ve made pillows; others they’ve painted glass ornaments.  One year they made pen holders.  This year they decided to go along with their Tyotie’s suggestion to make pysanka ornaments.  After all, they love making pysanky....

Still, it proved a bit more time-consuming then they thought it would.  We used a new techniques (sometimes it’s hard to teach dogs and kids new tricks) and used entirely new patterns.  Having to climb a learning curve slows you down.  We did produce some fine ornaments, though in the end.

(You can view my versions of the Christmas designs here; I created them so the kids would have patterns to work from.)