Something New (No 11)

[smallhobbit]

Having enjoyed the Christmas wreath making at Nature in Art, I signed up for another Dare to Dabble, this time to decorate an Easter egg.  I arrived thinking I'd be doing something fancy with one egg, or maybe two if I was lucky.  This is what we were given to start with:



Five different eggs!  We were shown what was available and left to entertain ourselves, with assistance as required.  It was great fun.

There was a real egg, which could be decorated with molten wax and then dyed.  I didn't bother dyeing mine.  And then it had to be blown.  There was a little gadget (German-made) to remove the contents of the egg, but sadly my egg cracked.  So I had another egg, which I blew first and then decorated with more melted wax:



There was a ceramic egg, which I decorated with acrylic paint:



There was a polystyrene egg, which I pinned glittery objects on:



And a plastic egg, which I again decorated with acrylic paint:



And finally, there was a chocolate egg, on which I used coloured writing icing:



Then I decided my plastic egg needed a little friend:



To produce a whole box of eggs:



SM ate the chocolate one.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I've never decorated eggs before so it was fun. It's a shame Jamie hasn't had the chance to do anything for Easter. Is it because it's late so the holidays get in the way?

[moth2fic]

I don't think it's anything, really, other than that they've had two changes of teacher (one left then the second one was ill) so things have been a bit disorganised.

I used to decorate eggs with my mother and grandmother every year. And husband's German relatives always have an Easter tree with hanging eggs, so we tried to recreate that here with branches of forsythia. I haven't bothered for a couple of years but it's a nice idea.