The other day Rebecca handed me a piece of board and told me to get creative. Yesterday I handed it back to her: Word to the wise: the vinyl backing glue ain’t the best for sticking tiles to tiles. I […]
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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, […]
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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: […]
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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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Blowing the Egg
You can paint or colour or dye or gloss any old egg – but it helps to get the stuff out of the inside first. Yes, you can hard-boil it, but that’ll only last for so long. If it’s longevity […]
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Painting Eggs for Easter
Some time back, don’t ask when because I can’t give you a date, and it’s not important anyway since you could read this without knowing the exact… you know what? I’ll start again. Start Again Some time back I began […]
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