"There is not enough time to process all orders"

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“Firing in an electric furnace lasts 13 hours, and electricity is now given on three or four.”

Maria Morozova, 31 years old, Kyiv region. Sells handmade dishes

I make dishes from clay and lead a circle of modeling in a children's developing center. I did not interrupt my work even in the first months of the war, although it was scary: I saw flying shells, and the cornice fell from the shock wave in my daughter’s room. There were also difficulties with delivery, since post offices in many cities of Ukraine were closed, but now the situation has improved.

In the spring, I made dishes in support of the Armed Forces with the Ukrainian flag and the slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" I sent the proceeds from the sale of funds to the Fund for Assistance to the military. People willingly bought it: many sent 1000 hryvnias ( about 1630 Russian rubles. - Approx. "Cold" ), although, for example, a cup of symbols cost 350 ( about 570 Russian rubles. - approx. "Cold") . Other products in winter and spring were reluctant to buy: I think it was not up to it.

Since the summer, people again began to actively order dishes - now I don’t even have enough time to process all orders. It seems to me that it is important for Ukrainians who are not in the area of active hostilities to continue to please themselves: to buy sweets, beautiful things. Many buy my ceramics as a gift.

I have been working on the order for a month. Previously, it turned out faster, but due to the shutdown of electricity, you often have to redo the product several times. Firing in an electric furnace lasts 13 hours, and electricity is now given on three or four, there are unscheduled shutdowns. The other day, I burned ceramics twice, and still the dishes did not heat up to the desired temperature: the electricity was unforeseen. At home, we put solar panels, but they are only enough to light the light in the workshop.

I have little clay left. The only factory in Ukraine, which is engaged in clay mining from quarries, is now closed: in Slavyansk, where it is located, hostilities are underway. There are no analogues of this clay on the market. I bought myself half a ton, and when these reserves are exhausted - according to my calculations, it will be in six months - I will not have something to sculpt from. And if I buy clay abroad, the cost of my products due to delivery of the material will increase four times. Soon, I hope Ukraine will win in this war, and the plant will recover.

"For people who left the country, my jewelry is a piece of homeland"

Katerina Titova, 36 years old, GOSTOL. Sells jewelry of its own production

Before the start of the war, I made jewelry of copper, silver and semiprecious stones. In March, my family and I had to move from GOSTOL: fighting next to our house. We were evacuated to Vinnitsa, and inspiration was gone: I did not understand which jewelry to do, and I could not turn out the workshop in someone else's apartment. But customers began to write with requests to restore work, and my Jewl fidders decided to send me several boxes of materials from Kyiv and Latvia, and I began to make wax jewelry.

In April, social networks flew out photographs of a beer's beer - a ceramic jug in the form of a cockerel. He conquered me, and I decided to make pendants in the form of him. Then she made pendants with horses based on Ukrainian clay toy, a pendant pendant.

I never did a tsatskoy for the sake of a tsatsek: I sought to make my jewelry evoke emotions. For example, I released bracelets and rings with the inscription “you can”, so that they reminded women, that childhood, when they were forbidden to laugh loudly, get angry, boast of themselves, ended and it is time to allow themselves to do what I want. Now my jewelry symbolizes the stages of war. Imagine the granddaughter of my client after 20 years, swarming in a grandmother's box with jewelry, will find a pendant in the form of a dog’s dog and asks: “Grandma, what is it?” And the grandmother will tell her who the dog is a cartridge, what a war was and how Ukraine fought.

Demand for jewelry with the outbreak of war did not fall. I can say by myself that, despite the fact that I got worse with money, I would not refuse to buy a rare embroidery. This is not a thing of first necessity, but I would buy it, because it would very pleased me. The same with jewelry. Many order them from abroad: for people who have left the country, my jewelry is a piece of homeland.

In May, we returned to GOSTOL. A shell flew into the aluminum barrel, which stood next to my workshop, and the shell of the shell and barrels demolished the wall of the workshop and half of the roof, carried out part of the windows in the house. Therefore, my friends and I had to re -build a workshop: all day I left only to take out pieces of brick, foam and wood.

In GOSTOL, as throughout Ukraine, they periodically turn off electricity, and because of this it is difficult to work. The workshop is heated from the convector, and when electricity disappears, it becomes cold in it. When the light appears, I choose, do household chores or work. Also, because of the war, children study from home. In the morning, when there is light, I help the youngest daughter with study. Therefore, I usually have an hour left when I can do something in the workshop. There are days when there is no more than eight electricity-in which case I collect bracelets and photograph finished products, I write something on the blog. But I look at the future with optimism: I am developing a site, I want to open a showroom and dream of making my channel on YouTube.

"Sweaters with the inscription" Good Vechora, Mi Z Ukrainian "were ordered by mothers who moved with children abroad"

Elena Krutikova, 31 years old, Dnieper. Co -founder of clothing brands for children and women

When the war began, we stopped the sale of clothes for two weeks and began to sew warm sweaters for Terborne fighters and the Armed Forces, distribute clothes to those in need - placed an announcement on the page on social networks that everyone could come to our production and take what is available. We began to receive requests through acquaintances: then my brother needs a sweater, then a neighbor - went to the front, and he does not have warm clothes. So, in the first month we have seized 200 sweaters and a jacket with a hose for the military.

In mid -March, we resumed sales and began to send orders to the cities where the mail worked, but were cut off from the warehouse near Kiev, where they constantly made purchases. However, after the de -captain of the Kyiv region, delivery was established.

Due to the jump in the dollar, the Turkish fabric from which we sew clothes grew in price, went up all the materials: buttons, threads, elastic bands. It has become very expensive and logistics due to growth in gas prices. And in order to support our employees-25 people work in the Dnieper in the Dnieper-we raised them a salary by 10-15%. Therefore, we raised prices for clothes, but the demand for it did not fall: mothers, as you know, strive to first put on their children.

In the summer we decided to use patriotic slogans in clothes. For example, they sewed children's sweaters with the inscription " Good Vechora, Mi Z Ukrainian." Such clothes were often ordered by mothers who moved abroad with their children - so as not to lose touch with their homeland. Now we are often buying t -shirts with the image of a boy on an airplane with a Ukrainian flag in his hands and girls in a national suit standing on a pile of broken tanks.

Until February 24, we also had buyers from Russia. Now the connections with them have been lost. We cannot send clothes to people who pay taxes in Russia and support military aggression with their ruble.