She has passed on her traditional arts to her daughters and is also beginning to teach her grandchildren. Karma and her daughter cook the traditional dishes they grew up with and that they prepare for local festivals in the Danish communities of Elk Horn and Kimballton. Marjorie Nejdl comes from a Czech family whose parents immigrated to Cedar Rapids. Nejdl is known as a master egg decorator. While growing up, she learned from her Moravian uncle when she was a child and now decorates eggs year-round, giving instruction in her spare time.
Czech eggs tend to be more pictorial than Ukrainian and Russian eggs.
Nejdl's eggs are distinguished by images of hearts, flowers, trees, mushrooms, and people framed by abstract motifs, symbols, and lines. Rod makes beautiful scrollwork clocks using a variety of woods. He polishes the tiny, cut pieces and then assembles each wooden clock case. Rod lives in Decorah and is of Norwegian and German heritage. She grew up watching her grandfather weave carpets on a loom brought from Germany in the early 1800s.