Still with the creepy, Halloween theme, we have the Swamp-Beast Egg. It was going to be Cthulu, but everyone knows that Cthulu has tentacles. If you want to get all Lovecraftian, it could possibly be a Deep-One Egg. I’ve also […]
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Mummy Egg
Keeping with the spooky, Halloween feel, but a whole lot less creepy, is the Mummy egg. Rather than polarizing, everyone, young and old, seems to like this one. Preparation There’s not a lot to prepare for this one. You’ll need […]
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Creepy Eyeball Eggs
This is a polarizing one: You either love it or you hate it. You know how putting boggly-eyes on things makes them cuter? Well, a big, disembodied boggly-eye ain’t that cute. In this series, I did a couple of ‘body […]
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Robot Egg
This is a crowd-pleaser. Not only is it cute, not only can it stand on its own two feet (yes, it has feet) but it’s fully customisable. The limit is only determined by what bits and bobs you have on […]
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The Prince and the Pauper
As you saw from the Deviled eggs and eggs Benedict, having ‘pairs’ or ‘themes’ of eggs is a fun way to mix things up at Easter. And there’s a good chance that if someone doesn’t like variant A, they can […]
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Deviled Eggs and Eggs Benedict
I’ll keep the fun going with two popular designs: “Eggs Benedict” and “Deviled Eggs”. Rather than being ‘ornamental’, they crave to be picked up, felt and looked at closely. These two examples run with the idea that sticking boggly eyes […]
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Flower Power
You don’t need to decorate all of an egg. In many instances, the egg will live its life sitting on an egg cup, behind glass. They won’t be manhandled, felt, held, thrown, roughed up, knocked about: they are purely ornamental. […]
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Prepping Your Eggs
You’ve blown a batch of eggs. That’s a great start. They’re washed and dried and ready for use. Now, the question comes: What to do with them? Eggs are a really wonderful canvas. They are porous, so they will happily […]
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Advanced Blowing Techniques
Blowing one or two eggs is not hard, really. You can have them done in time for dinner. When you have to do a bunch for Easter, it starts to get uncomfortable. Really uncomfortable. Your mouth hurts, your lips go […]
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Sorry to Leave you Hanging
In the previous post I went over the basics of choosing, cleaning and making a hole in your egg. Now what? You’ve made the hole in the bottom. Good. Now turn the egg over. Don’t worry, it won’t come gushing […]
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