Back in 2010 a friend and I made Easter eggs with our kids.
I had so much fun that I never really stopped. Since then I have created over 1,200 decorated eggs and (like in the Dr. Seuss book Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 Hats) each egg has been just a little more elaborate than the one before.
I pierce tiny holes in each end of an egg and blow out the inside, then wash and dry the emptied shell. The first ones I made were dyed or painted, the next batch collaged, later I made polymer clay features and each egg was a face. Finally I became proficient in gently covering the whole egg with a polymer clay veneer and curing it to a hard finish.
While my early eggs were fragile, these are sturdy and colorfast. Each one is slightly different in size but all have the wonderful evocative shape of possibility and new life. Strung on thin wire and embellished with glass or stone beads, they can decorate a Christmas tree, or hang in a window, or from a lamp all year round.
I had so much fun that I never really stopped. Since then I have created over 1,200 decorated eggs and (like in the Dr. Seuss book Bartholomew Cubbins and the 500 Hats) each egg has been just a little more elaborate than the one before.
I pierce tiny holes in each end of an egg and blow out the inside, then wash and dry the emptied shell. The first ones I made were dyed or painted, the next batch collaged, later I made polymer clay features and each egg was a face. Finally I became proficient in gently covering the whole egg with a polymer clay veneer and curing it to a hard finish.
While my early eggs were fragile, these are sturdy and colorfast. Each one is slightly different in size but all have the wonderful evocative shape of possibility and new life. Strung on thin wire and embellished with glass or stone beads, they can decorate a Christmas tree, or hang in a window, or from a lamp all year round.