Almost didn’t make it this year. Too much to do, not enough tentacles with which to do it.
I’m bushed, well and truly, but I’m also chuffed with the result. No more chit-chat for me. Going to bed.
Happy Easter everyone!
Tag: Easter
Easter Eggs -Triumphs and Failures
Running with the purple and gold theme, I made up a few more eggs and painted them blue, graduating to white at the bottom. Then came the white vine squiggles, with round balls on the ends of white flicks.
Finally, the balls were filled with white, gold and rose gold, just to mix things up again. Gloss up with several coats of polyurethane and we’re ready for Easter.
Almost.
There are two big rules that go with making Easter Eggs.
- Always make more eggs than you will need and
- Never let little boys with curious fingers anywhere near your eggs otherwise:
This guy was only three coats of gloss away from finished! Oh, the humanity!
Easter Eggs – 2016
Easter caught me by surprise this year. Had grand plans to have everything prepped and ready, then I looked down for a second. Boom! It’s the 21st of March. How did that happen without anyone noticing?
The theme this year: Colours. Purple and gold, white and black. I also made some blue eggs, just to mix it up a little. There are a few ‘experimental’ designs, good to keep in the back of my mind for another time. I settled on the white, organic lines with gold bubble-fruit.
And, because it’s Easter, I’ve also made a couple of Golgotha eggs. It’s a sunset scene, with the hillock and the three crosses set against the outskirts of the City. There’s a bit of gold mixed in the sky there, doesn’t come up in the photo too well.
For more, check out my egg-blowing page.
Happy Easter everyone!
Blowing Eggs – The Easy Way
It’s Easter, Sunday 27th of Match, so for all you egg painting freaks, you’re probably thinking, “How am I going to blow all of my eggs in time?”, right? Am I right? I’m right, aren’t I?
Fret not! A while back I put up a post about how to blow eggs, the ins and outs, pitfalls, and at the end I mentioned that one can use a breast pump to speed up the process. The ‘Egg Express‘ (pun intended), if you will.
I’ve had a couple of sideways glances and disbelieving looks so, to show you how fast and easy it all is, I made a video.
The benefits are many: You can make a little production line – clean the eggs, make the holes, blow the shells, wash them and dry them – to go even faster or, if you’re into comfort over speed, simply chill in front of the television while pumping away. No mess, no fuss.
The only hard part is cleaning up afterwards. If you’ve got a pull-apart pump (like the one pictured), cleaning is a breeze.
Sorry for the interruption to the Digital Versus Hardback series, but time is pressing for Easter, so I had to knock this one out.
Also, more Easter Eggs this year. I wonder what the theme will be?