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Recently I have visited the exhibition "BVLGARI. Tribute to Femininity. Magnificent Roman Jewels". It was an esthetic pleasure. It was held in the Moscow Kremlin Museums, in the Exhibition Hall of the Assumption Belfry, and the Exhibition Hall of the Patriarch’s Palace. Chambers are small, ...

I found the works of the illustrator Shanghai Tango by chance while watching the "What? Where? When?" TV show. It was necessary to answer the question: what is depicted in the closed part of the picture? As it turned out, the full picture looks like this: Who would have thought :) Such a ...

The pleasant smell of forest mushrooms, bright berries, mouth-watering sides of orange pumpkins, pinecones and acorns, the quiet rustle of leaves... Nature looks festive. There's no reason for being sad and depressed. It's time for cosy hot tea evenings, coffee or fragrant mulled wine, ...

Do you love sweets the way I do? Well, they inspire me greatly and I want to share with you Sweet Color Combinations: just think about sweets, cakes, cookies, cupcakes and chocolates, truffles and candies... mmm... yum, very tasty, and looks colourful and lush! One can't help being tempted to ...

Hello! I want to introduce you to the world of wonderful photographer Christian Richter.   Aspiring photographers like Christian are advised much practice. To shoot again and again, become a camera a part of you. Such a practice should take about three years. As a professional, Christian should ...

A little less than 30 years ago, a magician of origami, Akira Yoshizawa, invented a new technique of working with paper. He took a damp cloth, paper, a tablespoon of glue and... something fabulous happened! Ordinary graphic origami gained smooth lines, softened. And now it's not origami at all ...

This story proves that elderly women are able to teach any fashion blogger a thing or two. One of such women is Lin Slater — a 63-year-old professor of sociology. Lin started blogging about style three years ago not aiming to become popular. She was just sharing her fashion looks inspired by ...

Retro is a whole epoch understood in many ways — so many men, so many minds. Someone thinks that retro is everything relating to the 1930s, and someone believes the 1990s to be the cool old retro. In Webster's dictionary, the definition is quite generic, which is "relating to, reviving, or ...

I'm an artist, have been working with children of different age for 5 years. This DIY would be interesting even for children 8-13 years, too. Let's start our creative lesson! You need: 1. Cardboard (take a shoes box, but see that it was not glossy and with pictures) Cardboard should not ...

Like most of knitters, I let yarn scraps pile up. It is impossible just to throw such treasury away, so I’m always looking for ideas of how to upcycle it. What can I do of the yarn? Another yarn, of course :) So, sort out all yarn scraps by colour (there are some balls in the photo):   Knit a ...