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Double your traffic. I am a third generation Ukrainian-American and and my favorite pastime is writing pysanky. Pysanka comes from an Ukrainian verb pysaty, which means “to write.” My grandfather taught me to “write” on pysanky when I was 7 years old. It was very important to him to keep this tradition alive and passed down to future generations. Grandfather always told me that every time a pysanka is finished another chain is created to keep the “chort” (or devil) bonded and every time a pysanka was broken a link was lost. He believed they were able to keep evil from taking over the world. Pysanky are beautiful Ukrainian decorative eggs. A wax-resist batik method is used to decorate them, which means none of the designs are painted on but written in beeswax. When the egg is finished being written, the wax is then melted off the by candle flame. Only Pysanky are done in the beeswax – dye method. Now I have the honor of passing this tradition down to my 4 children. My mother and I have taught each of them how to write pysanka when they turned 7 years old. My youngest daughter is now 14 and works on her own pysanky right beside me. Sometime you will even see some of her work up on the site. My oldest son is only 9 and he enjoys making maple leaves and acorns on his pysanka. We are so thankful that my Grandfather cared so much about read more

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