We are very happy to introduce you to colleagues who have interesting hobbies through the X App. Whether they are related to volunteering, sports, hiking, astronomy, or creating something nice. The last group also includes Anna Györgyfiová, who works in the department of the director for material management.

   

Shortly before the Christmas holidays, she started making angels from old books. She discovered this "material" last year, when she created Christmas tree decorations and an Advent wreath from the pages of old books. Mrs. Anna is versatile and can delight her loved ones, family and friends, as well as herself, with other beautiful creations.

What do you create and what do you like to do the most?

I love everything I do, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it. I don't want to waste any opportunity and here I would use a motivational quote "If you can dream about it, you can make it happen."

In spring and summer, there is less of it, as I devote myself to the garden and processing everything that grows or matures. But even in addition, I find time to collect and dry medicinal herbs, make healing ointments, tinctures, or flower arrangements that caress the soul. Even then, I have to think about preparing the materials for later creation, e.g. tying carcasses to wreaths made of willow, birch, or dry grass. And again, autumn and winter and their long evenings I use for the creation itself, manual work such as crocheting, knitting, painting, or for the aforementioned creation of folding from old books, ...

And before Christmas? That's the time of staying up late, the time of drying apples, the time of baking my traditional, maybe excessively large quantities and types, cookies (but they are all eaten ).

         

This year at my home, it seems as if angels are playing the lead. I also made them from my own, grown poppies, from logs, or crocheted, ...

In addition, I also make various seasonal wreaths and decorations, I decorate Easter eggs in various ways, I knit pumpkins, bake cookies (a lot of cookies), decorate gingerbread, dry apples (they have the greatest success), or make fruit leather, arrange, take photos and arrange everything so that I can keep up, family, friends, garden, or hiking, everything I love ...

   

When did you discover this talent in yourself? What was your first creation?

That we are supposedly born with it, we slumber in each of us, we just need to wake it up and develop it. Even as a child, I was always making something, creating, but at that time I had no idea that some talent was hidden in me. At that time, the shops were not saturated with goods as they are today and there was somehow less money, so we had no choice but to leaf through the available magazines, engage our imagination and skillful hands. I remember my first apple seed necklace, painted burnt out light bulbs, or a crocheted star.

What material do you like to create from?

Sometimes it's old books, sometimes wood, threads, wool, fabrics, I take advantage of whether nature, my garden, or as they say "what the house can give", ... Of course, sometimes I have to buy something... I create thematically, according to the season, occasion, or just for the pleasure of my heart and my loved ones, depending on how much time I have.

Who do you tend to please with your products?

First of all, myself, it's my relaxation, my recharging my batteries after work, but most of all it's the circle of my loved ones, whether family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, ...

In recent years, I have been sending decorated gingerbread cookies and some of my products to my daughter, who works in education, where they organize a Christmas market every year. They will use the proceeds from the sold items for a good cause. They support, help, donate it to the weaker who need it. I am pleased that I manage to make others happy and that many can appreciate what I do.

Even though I receive compliments on my work from several sides, I still think of myself as nothing special, I just find joy in quite ordinary things that I enjoy, fulfill, ...

Many times, friends and family members ask me when I manage to do it all. I don't even know. I'll use my granddaughter's sentence: "Grandma, you're an octopus!"

   

Photo: archive of Anna Györgyfiová