The eco-life of the Soviet era – a dishcloth from a rug box and bread for head washing.
Nowadays, we talk a lot about living in a packaging-free world, consuming home-grown food, giving a new life to second-hand clothes, reducing paper waste, not wasting food, avoiding toxic detergents, etc. In the light of all this, when I think back to my own childhood, this is how we – the 50s of today – […]
Shea butter – African women’s gold
Shea butter has nothing to do with pigs, but is derived from the nuts of a tree that grows in Africa. In Estonian, it’s actually called butter seed oil. Shea butter is known as the gold of African women, because it has been produced by women for centuries, and with the income from its sale, […]
In the footsteps of ancient design techniques in Istanbul
One gloomy February day, I got a call. A nice English-speaking lady from Lithuania asked if Õrreke also offered ebru workshops. “Of course!” I shouted enthusiastically into the phone, while clicking my fingers on the computer keyboard. Within half a minute I knew what I was doing. It was very reminiscent of the dripping technique […]
The most beautiful flowers
In the near future, there will be various anniversaries where we love to buy, give or receive flowers. But are we aware that growing these innocent beauties is leaving an ever-growing footprint on our collective environment? Valentine’s Day, and the Women’s Day that follows it, is a day of celebration. But sadly, this celebration does […]
We make our own paper and turn it into Christmas decorations or Christmas cards
Making paper is a great shared activity. You’ll find out what and how to make your own paper, and what to do with it! You can use the paper to make cards, Christmas cards or bookmarks. Anyone can do it! Click on the picture to read the instructions:
Don’t buy Christmas from China …
That’s right… All the gold, sword and glitter that fills the world of commerce at the beginning of November to set the mood is actually quite soulless and fake. The spirit is rather homemade, in meaning and in stories. We – Estonians have a background in the back rooms of farmhouses and there was no […]