Eggs. Easter. I don't need much of an excuse to get crafty, these days, so a nationally-sanctioned calendar moment can really get me going of course.
First, it helps if you shamelessly pilfer the green & other interestingly-colored ones from several egg carts at the grocery store before buying...(each dozen had one fancy colored with the rest of 'em brown...by the time I had shuffled them around, I had about 6 of each color in mine) The tricky part: blowing the eggs. Ugg. (Step-by-step tips HERE)
Then, using gold/silver paint pens (it best replicates the look of foil-leafing, & takes way less time)...create fake 'drips' or fun cloud/bubble shapes over part of the egg, leaving plenty of the interesting egg color that the hen cleverly came up with.
Afterwards, knot a string in a loop & sort of stuff it into the bigger of the 2 holes with a chopstick, coaxing a bunch of glue into the hole around the edges...& dry overnite. Alternately, if your blow-hole got too large, or a chunk of shell sort of fell out, leaving a biggish hole, use needle and knotted thread to stick thru the center of a small square of paper...dab paper swatch with glue and stuff it into the hole, pulling the thread so that it fans-out into the hole and covers it. Then, if you're into perfectionism & all that (I am) dab matching paint on the paper that's showing in the hole, so that it just blends in.
Now hang 'em up all yea!. Easter is too brief a time period for fabulous craft possibilities, although it's handy for giving oneself a deadline. (Mine all got hung on a chandelier that has been accumulating painted gourds & other various things for some time now
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