Ask Us Anything About Pysanky – tools

Tools, technique, tradition and more . . . . ask us anything about pysanky. To share our knowledge, our team of experts at www.babasbeeswax.com draws on not only our heritage, but also over 30 years teaching pysanky to all ages and levels of experience since 1991. Today's dialogue is on tradition.

Question  – What are some books you recommend for pysanky?

Answer – There’s different types: design books, children’s books (including activities and stories), and pamphlets. The pamphlet Ukrainian Easter Egg Pysanka Beginners' Designs is a great start for designs and instructions. For popular design books published by Ukrainian Gift Shop, start with Design Book 1, then progress through the other numbers. That makes it easier to know which one to get next! To see book previews head on over to our YouTube Channel (Baba’s Beeswax / iluvpysanky) | Book Previews Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYi4KbARmTrG7eUcgyw_ffqmJG8Tt7l4o. Then head over to https:www.babasbeeswax.com to get a copy of this book for your own collection.

We believe that pysanky is fun and we embrace “Panya Pysanka”, our cool, hip, and whimsical mascot character. See her here in our “Ask Us Anything About Pysanky” post and elsewhere on social media to see how we promote pysanky.

 

#PanyaPysanka #AskUsAnything #JoanBrander #BabasBeeswax

New Stand for Ukraine fundraiser potential on our website

 

Creative designs from Baba’s Pysanky Boutique – Pysanka Power

Embrace the power of pysanky in our Pysanka Power Collection of face masks, apparel (more than just T-shirt), gifts and novelty items for your home or office (greeting cards, mugs, etc.). A variety of gifts and novelty items depicts decorated eggs all in a row.

See the Collection here. https://www.cafepress.ca/babaspysankyboutique/17219861

#CafePress #pysanky #UkrainianEasterEgg #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Ask Us Anything About Pysanky – tradition

Tools, technique, tradition and more . . . . ask us anything about pysanky. To share our knowledge, our team of experts at www.babasbeeswax.com draws on not only our heritage, but also over 30 years teaching pysanky to all ages and levels of experience since 1991. Today's dialogue is on tradition.

Question  – What is the colour on a traditional Ukrainian pysanka that symbolizes purity, innocence and birth?

Answer – The white of a white shell. To see the vibrant palette of 18 pysanky dyes from Baba’s Beeswax, open this Colour Chart on their website https://www.babasbeeswax.com/18%20Pysanky%20Dyes.htm. They also have a handy Laminated Pysanky Colour Sequence Chart explaining the traditional sequence for guaranteed results, including "orange wash" https://www.babasbeeswax.com/Catalogue.htm.

We believe that pysanky is fun and we embrace “Panya Pysanka”, our cool, hip, and whimsical mascot character. See her here in our “Ask Us Anything About Pysanky” post and elsewhere on social media to see how we promote pysanky.

 

#PanyaPysanka #AskUsAnything #JoanBrander #BabasBeeswax

Pysanka Power Podcast — All About Pysanky Dyes

Have you been listening to our Pysanka Power Podcast? We’re featuring an episode each week between now and Easter. The pillars of this audio file include tools of the trade, technique, how to’s and DIYs, history & legends, symbolism, and activities just for fun. Discover something different every week here or on your favourite podcast app. Today’s topic is all about pysanky dyes.

https://www.babasbeeswax.com/X-Pysanka%20Power%20Podcast/All%20About%20Pysanky%20Dyes.mp3

#PysankaPowerPodcast #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Friday Funnies – hide the kids!

Today is Friday and who couldn’t use a little pysanka humour to start off the weekend? Discover the magic of pysanky one joke at a time!  ©ballmemes . com

 

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Ask Us Anything About Pysanky – tools

Tools, technique, tradition and more . . . . ask us anything about pysanky. To share our knowledge, our team of experts at www.babasbeeswax.com draws on not only our heritage, but also over 30 years teaching pysanky to all ages and levels of experience since 1991. Today's dialogue is on tools.

Question  – Can I use brown eggs for pysanky

Answer – Yes brown eggs can be used. They produce very nice results, akin to an “antique” look.

We believe that pysanky is fun and we embrace “Panya Pysanka”, our cool, hip, and whimsical mascot character. See her here in our “Ask Us Anything About Pysanky” post and elsewhere on social media to see how we promote pysanky.

 

#PanyaPysanka #AskUsAnything #JoanBrander #BabasBeeswax

Creative designs from Baba’s Pysanky Boutique – Baba’s Beeswax

You’ll be at the forefront of preserving one of the great traditions of all time wearing apparel in this Baba’s Beeswax Collection of face masks, apparel (more than just T-shirt), gifts and novelty items for your home or office (greeting cards, mugs, etc.). A variety of gifts and novelty items also features the logo.

See the Collection here. https://www.cafepress.ca/babaspysankyboutique/17219852

#CafePress #pysanky #UkrainianEasterEgg #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Pysanka Power Podcast – The Ancient Origins of Pysanky and Stories Told About Them

Have you heard my Pysanka Power Podcast? The pillars of this audio file include tools of the trade, technique, how to’s and DIYs, history & legends, symbolism, and activities just for fun. Discover something different every week from now until Easter here or on your favourite podcast app. Today’s topic is the ancient origins of pysanky and stories told about them.

https://www.babasbeeswax.com/X-Pysanka%20Power%20Podcast/The%20Ancient%20Origins%20of%20Pysanky%20and%20Stories%20Told%20About%20Them.mp3

#PysankaPowerPodcast #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Friday Funnies — For better or worse

For better or worse. Today is Friday and who couldn’t use a little pysanka humour to start off the weekend? Discover the magic of pysanky one joke at a time! Credit for this one goes to ©Lynn Johnston

 

#PysankaHumour #BabasBeeswax

St. Paddy's Day

Feeling the luck of the Irish today with beeswax and dyes and looking for the pot of gold! Happy St. Paddy's Day!

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Take a look. Read a book!

Discover the magic of pysanky, one book at a time. Have a look at this eBook Pysanka Power – Writing Eggs with Beeswax and Dyes : Instructions, information, and money saving tips for all levels of experience (978-1-8972553-34-2). Head over to https:www.babasbeeswax.com Lulu Bookstore, Apple iBookstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK, Amazon Kindle, and Kobo and Everything Else to order your own copy.

Chapters include: Raw Eggs versus Empty Eggshells; Hanging Pysanky; Christmas Ornaments; Bleached Pysanky; Traditional Egg Division; Colours and Their Meaning; How to Get Beautiful Results the Very First Time; How to Empty Pysanky; More than 80 Pysanky Tips; Trypillian Pysanky

 

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Tuesday Tips for pysanky — your candles

Learning pysanky is easy, fun and affordable. Continuing in our bi-weekly series we have Tips and Troubleshooting for eggs, beeswax, kistka, dyes, candles, pencil guidelines, removing beeswax, emptying your eggs, varnishing your pysanky, using a drying board, displaying your pysanky and more . . . .

What’s your learning style? is it listening (we have a podcast “Pysanka Power Podcast”), is it watching (we have a YouTube Channel “Baba’s Beeswax” or “iluvpysanky” with multiple playlists), is it doing (we have a tutorial “Teacher Guide”), is it online (we have digital resources including “ZOOM” meetings), or is it reading (we have unique publications from Canada and elsewhere). We’ve been doing all this and more since 1991 and just celebrated our 30th anniversary!

Today’s tip is to use sturdy candleholders with a low centre of gravity to prevent your candle from toppling over. To learn more about safety when writing pysanky, download this free handout from Baba’s Beeswax Fire Safety Fact Sheet.

Our team has you covered. You can trust the experts at Baba’s Beeswax.com. Our Mission is to provide you with everything you need to make beautiful pysanky the traditional way from pysanky supplies and kits to workshops and books. Our Vision is to inspire and encourage beginners, experts, and anyone interested in Ukrainian egg decorating to discover the magic of one of the great traditions of all time—PYSANKY!

 

#BabasBeeswax #TuesdayTipsAndTroubleshooting #PysankySupplies

Creative designs from Baba’s Pysanky Boutique – Is it Easter yet?

Anticipating the colourful season of pysanky? See our whimsical Is It Easter Yet Collection of face masks, apparel (more than just T-shirt), gifts and novelty items for your home or office (greeting cards, mugs, etc.). Celebrate the colourful Easter tradition wearing the apparel in this Collection. This whimsical design in also featured on a variety of gifts and novelty items.

See the Collection here. https://www.cafepress.ca/babaspysankyboutique/17224988

#CafePress #pysanky #UkrainianEasterEgg #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Pysanka Power Podcast - The Essentials

Have you heard our Pysanka Power Podcast? We’ll feature an episode each week between now and Easter.The pillars of this audio file include tools of the trade, technique, how to’s and DIYs, history & legends, symbolism, and activities just for fun. Discover something different every week here or on your favourite podcast app.

https://www.babasbeeswax.com/X-Pysanka%20Power%20Podcast/The%20Essentials%20of%20Pysanky%20Ukrainian%20Easter%20Eggs.mp3

#PysankaPowerPodcast #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Friday Funnies - For Better or Worse

For better or worse. Today is Friday and who couldn’t use a little pysanka humour to start off the weekend? Discover the magic of pysanky one joke at a time! Credit for this one goes to ©Lynn Johnston

 

#PysankaHumour #BabasBeeswax

Ask Us Anything About Pysanky – tradition

Tools, technique, tradition and more . . . . ask us anything about pysanky. To share our knowledge, our team of experts at www.babasbeeswax.com draws on not only our heritage, but also over 30 years teaching pysanky to all ages and levels of experience since 1991. Today's dialogue is on tradition.

Question  – What is the traditional Ukrainian pysanka symbol for a bountiful harvest?

Answer – Wheat.

To see examples of different symbols, watch “My First Pysanka - Symbols my Baba taught Me” featured on our YouTube Channel (Baba’s Beeswax / iluvpysanky) | Book Preview Playlist. Here’s the YouTube link https://youtu.be/4-Uenn4kz8E. Then head over to https:www.babasbeeswax.com to get a copy of this book for your own collection.

We believe that pysanky is fun and we embrace “Panya Pysanka”, our cool, hip, and whimsical mascot character. See her here in our “Ask Us Anything About Pysanky” post and elsewhere on social media to see how we promote pysanky.

 

#PanyaPysanka #AskUsAnything #JoanBrander #BabasBeeswax

A pysanka poem worth sharing

Discover the magic of pysanky one poem at a time in our monthly sharing of these words arranged purposefully with meaning, sound, and rhythm.

Just as Baba’s Beeswax https://www.babasbeeswax.com inspires and encourages beginners, experts, and anyone interested in Ukrainian egg decorating, these featured authors connect us to tradition and inspire us to new possibilities.

The late Orysia Tracz, in Ukrainian Weekly, said “If you need to think of a Ukrainian poem describing the beauty of the Ukrainian village and countryside, a poem by Taras Shevchenko (of course!) usually comes to mind: "A village, and the heart is at peace, a village in our Ukraine, a village like a pysanka...” (1847).

 She goes on to say that in another poem, "Na Velykden, na solomi..." [on Easter, on the straw...] Shevchenko describes how children brag about what gifts they received for Easter. The essence of the poem comes through in the English translation. But what will not and cannot come across in English is the beauty of Shevchenko's work. The phrase "lost in translation" is certainly true here. The melody and beauty of the Ukrainian language - and how Shevchenko incomparably used it - defies translation. Ukrainian and Italian are regarded as the two most musical languages in the world, for singing, for opera and, I think, for poetry. This poem is in the C.H. Andrusyshen/Watson Kirkconnell translation, which retains the rhythm of the original:

We hope you enjoy reading Na Velykden, na solomni, by Taras Shevchenko:

On Easter Sunday among the straw

Out in the sun the children played
With Easter eggs in colors braw
And each of them loud boasting made
Of gifts received. One, for the feast,
Was given a shirt with sleeves of white;
One with a ribbon had been pleased,
One with a garment, laced and tight;
This boy was given a lambskin cap,
That one a pair of horsehide boots,
And one a jacket to unwrap.
Only one child among their bruits,
An orphan, had no gift of bliss;
Her hands are hidden in her sleeves.
She hears: "My mother bought me this,
My father got me that." (She grieves.)
"My good godmother made a blouse
Embroidered gay with dainty thread."
"The priest has fed me at his house,"
At last the little orphan said.
[Kos Aral, 1849, in exile]

 

#PysankaPoems #pysanky #UkrainianEasterEgg #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Happy International Women's Day

Celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8th and honouring the matriarchal symbol Berehynia (Grand Goddess) which appeared in the 5th and 6th Centuries A.D. in Scythian and other ancient cultures (shown in the centre diagram). Other matriarchs include Queen (left), Old Woman (right) and Princess. These powerful images have been written on the pysanky shown in the two photos. Our resident pysanka expert Joan Brander gives workshops featuring this ancient design. Or make your own with the patterns in Pysanka Power #13 Ancient Mother Goddess Berehenia available from Baba’s Beeswax.

 

#BabasBeeswax #Celebrations #BerehyniaAncientMotherGoddess #PysankySupplies

Creative designs from Baba’s Pysanky Boutique – Happy Easter

Cute eggs sitting on a park bench in the city are feature in our Happy Easter Collection of face masks, apparel (more than just T-shirt), gifts and novelty items for your home or office (greeting cards, mugs, etc.). Celebrate Easter in the city or anywhere wearing the apparel in this Collection. This whimsical design in also featured on a variety of gifts and novelty items.

See the Collection here. https://www.cafepress.ca/babaspysankyboutique/17221135

#CafePress #pysanky #UkrainianEasterEgg #BabasBeeswax #JoanBrander

Glory to Ukraine — Slava Ukraini

Are you writing pysanky with Ukraine's tryzub (trident) symbol? Here is a step-by-step guide to get the correct proportions for this three-pronged spear.

Friday Funnies – are they dead yet?

Today is Friday and who couldn’t use a little pysanka humour to start off the weekend? Discover the magic of pysanky one joke at a time with The Family Circus! Credit for this one goes to ©1996 Bill Keane.

 

#PysankaHumour #BabasBeeswax

Ask Us Anything About Pysanky – tools

Tools, technique, tradition and more . . . . ask us anything about pysanky. To share our knowledge, our team of experts at www.babasbeeswax.com draws on not only our heritage, but also over 30 years teaching pysanky to all ages and levels of experience since 1991. Today's dialogue is on tools.

Question  – What are templates and how are they used?

Answer – Templates are designed to divide all sizes of eggs into equal parts of 2, 4, 6 or 8 or for circles. The construction of our templates is somewhat between heavy paper and light cardboard. There are 16 pysanka templates in a package ranging from 1/4" to 4-7/8".

We believe that pysanky is fun and we embrace “Panya Pysanka”, our cool, hip, and whimsical mascot character. See her here in our “Ask Us Anything About Pysanky” post and elsewhere on social media to see how we promote pysanky.

 

#PanyaPysanka #AskUsAnything #JoanBrander #BabasBeeswax

Tuesday Tips for pysanky — your dyes

Learning pysanky is easy, fun and affordable. Continuing in our bi-weekly series we have Tips and Troubleshooting for eggs, beeswax, kistka, dyes, candles, pencil guidelines, removing beeswax, emptying your eggs, varnishing your pysanky, using a drying board, displaying your pysanky and more . . . .

What’s your learning style? is it listening (we have a podcast “Pysanka Power Podcast”), is it watching (we have a YouTube Channel “Baba’s Beeswax” or “iluvpysanky” with multiple playlists), is it doing (we have a tutorial “Teacher Guide”), is it online (we have digital resources including “ZOOM” meetings), or is it reading (we have unique publications from Canada and elsewhere). We’ve been doing all this and more since 1991 and just celebrated our 30th anniversary!

Today’s tip is to use either glass or plastic jars to store your dyes. Allow dye to cool completely before adding to plastic jars as the heat tolerance for some plastics may cause distortion if you add boiling water to them.

To learn more about pysanky dyes, listen to Episode 3 of our Pysanka Power Podcast “All About Pysanky Dyes” on your favourite app or here.

Our team has you covered. You can trust the experts at Baba’s Beeswax.com. Our Mission is to provide you with everything you need to make beautiful pysanky the traditional way from pysanky supplies and kits to workshops and books. Our Vision is to inspire and encourage beginners, experts, and anyone interested in Ukrainian egg decorating to discover the magic of one of the great traditions of all time—PYSANKY!

 

#BabasBeeswax #TuesdayTipsAndTroubleshooting #PysankySupplies