Novyy Pochatok - New Beginning

So proud of our friend for her STUNNING pysanky design from the Canadian Mint!! So proud to know her and her beautiful work!

Oh hi 👋 everyone. It’s been awhile! Emerging from a challenging winter with a restock at .ca. Happiest of Easter season to you and your loved ones ❤️

Stocked up at .ca - get your Christmas presents and !

Excited to share this item from my shop: Ukrainian pysanky keychain!

Have a Mama or Baba in your life that doesn’t wear jewelry? What about a Gido or Dad that would like something Ukrainian for their keys? This is a perfect little stocking stuffer ❤️

My customers are truly the kindest!

★★★★★ "Tiny post earrings. Minimalist design just the way I like my jewelry. Thank you so much for crafting such cute earrings for me to enjoy. =)" Sandra T.

Well, it’s been a minute but I’ve slowly been working at replenishing stock behind the scenes. Here are some new wood pendants now available in the shop (link in bio).

Wow! 400 person fundraiser in last night to raise funds for Ukrainians coming into our community after fleeing the war. What an incredible show of community support 💙💛

If you love my triangle pysanky studs, there’s a ton of new options in the Etsy store. Link in bio!

So proud to have helped a little bit through a donation (and tattoo)! It was an amazing day and you could really feel closeness and care for our Ukrainian community in .

Thank you for letting me participate Larissa Poho - Visual Art 💛💙

On Monday May 9th, tattoo studio crown & serpent hosted a tattoo flash day for Ukraine, organized by resident artist Larissa Poho - with all proceeds and donations going towards providing humanitarian aid to Ukraine via Cobblestone Freeway Foundation.
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In addition to Ukrainian-themed tattoos, we sold merchandise, hosted Dimensions Door Witchery and other Ukrainian vendors such as Stand With Ukraine.EDM, and organized a silent auction.
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The event was so well-attended that we were unable to tattoo everyone who showed up!
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Thanks to all our clients’ support, we managed to raise $10,500!
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A huge shoutout and thankyou to our generous donors & volunteers:
- the studio artists at crown & serpent
- Absolute Health Incorporated
- Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company
- CJ Rowein
- Common Ground Arts Society
- Die-Nasty, The Live Improvised Soap Opera
- Elise Furotansky
- Edmonton Fringe Theatre
- Good Morning Honey
- Grindstone Theatre
- Helix + Hide
- Jennifer Lewak
- Larissa Poho - Visual Art
- The Next Act Pub
- Novyy Pochatok - New Beginning
- Pyretic Productions & Punctuate! Theatre
- Sara Marchyshyn
- Shadow Theatre
- St. John’s Ukrainian Cultural Centre
- Teatro La Quindicina
- Theatre Network & The Nextfest Arts Company
- Meagan, Cody, Alison, Cory, Keighty, Maria, Sera, Joel, Tanya, Lesia, Orest - thanks for stepping in to help with everything from event setup/strike to crowd control!

Cute lil hair clips restocked in the store. Link in bio 🥰

A beautiful, heartbreaking piece.

FUNDRAISER FOR UKRAINE 🇺🇦
Much like these beautiful broken pysanky, Ukraine will pick up the pieces to re-make into something extraordinary!
The proceeds of each piece will be donated to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal through the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.
Due to volume, your pendant will be randomly selected. Link in bio ❤️
Slava Ukraini!

A gift for the good Ukrainian men in your life - cufflinks! Need a graduation present, Father’s Day gift, wedding present? Look no further.

If you like minimalist, I restocked these little cuties in the shop. Link in bio!

Some new rectangle pendants in the shop. Link in profile 🥰 I’m still donating $5 of every item purchased to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Appeal fund!

I’m absolutely floored at the support my little shop has gotten. Every piece purchased = $5 donation to support Ukrainian efforts.

These will be in the Etsy shop on the next day.

SLAVA UKRAINI💛💙

Thank you 💛💙

Picked up my Ukraine fundraiser cookies from , and also restocked my jewelry. Every piece purchased from me for the foreseeable future will give a $5 to relief efforts in Ukraine!

Sneaking some new bun clips into the store later today. Beautiful statement piece 😍 it feels good to get some pieces done after a hiatus.

My heart is breaking for what is happening in Ukraine.

From February 1-15, for every purchase made through my Etsy shop, I will donate $5 to the
Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal. They launched a public GoFundMe Campaign to raise $1.5 million for the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

This is a project of the Canada Ukraine Foundation in partnership with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.

Shop link in bio.

I hate shipping fees. And I also hate charging them. Now in my shop, shipping is free on all orders! No minimum spend requires. Link in profile ❤️

Khrystos Rozhdayetsia to all who celebrate ❤️❤️

If you know, you know :)
Merry Christmas! Христос Рождається!

Not everything is colourful and beautiful like pysanky in our shared Ukrainian history.

Unsure of Holodomor or what happened? Learn a bit more here:

▪️Holodomor occurred in a time of peace, not as a result of war or natural disaster. Stalin issued a series of policies in the early 1930s that led to genocide through starvation.

▪️Wheat and other grains were confiscated by the Communist government, and some sold as exports to fund Stalin’s Five-year Plan. Food was used as a weapon and 1/3 of all villages in Ukraine were blacklisted and blockaded.

▪️ Millions of innocent people died from starvation. 28,000 people died PER DAY at the height of Holodomor in June 1933. 31% of those who died were children under the age of 10.

▪️ Holodomor was covered up and denied for over five decades. In Canada, it was officially recognized as a genocide in May 2008.

Learning about these past atrocities can prevent them from happening again.

Eternal memory. Вічная Пам'ять.

You wanted more earrings? I stocked more earrings in the Etsy store! Follow the link to take a look - each pair is unique and a steal at $15/pair!

Not pysanka jewelry, but I found these and added them to my shop. How adorable are these matryoshka dolls!?? I especially love the blue holding Kolach 😍

Found this beauty in an antique store 😍 can’t wait to give in a new beginning! What should I make out of this egg?

Stocked up at the Confetti Collective! Shop local and don’t forget - only 8 weeks until Christmas!