(*Read more about child slave labour and chocolate at Eilleen's blog).
At the time I made some pretty wonky-looking stuffed eggs from fabric scraps, but quickly resigned myself to the fact that my novice-level sewing skills need a lot more work before I tackle that project again, LOL. It was about then that I found some wooden eggs as part of a play-set in a Steiner-style toy shop. Luckily for me, my father-in-law is a carpenter! He said he would be more than happy to turn some eggs for me from wood scraps, yay.
Since then, I've realised that it's going to take me until, oh, say next Easter, to paint them all! So I've asked him to start churning out a few for me to start undercoating, and here are my first arrivals:
My plan is to paint them all with an undercoat of white paint, then top coat with patterns in bright, lolly-colours, and seal with varnish for longevity. Fortunately they all have a small nail-sized hole in the base (presumably from the wood lathe, but I don't know about these things), so I can hopefully mount them on a base made from a series of nails banged through a heavy piece of wood, in order to paint them. For paint, I will be scouring paint shops and hardware stores for paint test pots that have been wrongly tinted - most stores generally seem to have a box of them going cheaply.
Now, I've got about eight months and about three dozen eggs to do. Despite being severely artistically challenged, surely even I can manage that, LOL. Don't expect anything too pretty though, I suspect that stripes might the limit of my capabilities ;-) I think the girls will still like them though - and I'd like to think they might become family keepsakes like our homemade Christmas ornaments.
4 comments:
Some of them have lovely grain patterns. They might turn out really pretty if you used colorful stain instead of paint. You could take advantage of their natural decorative quality instead of depending on your own painting skills.
Hi Sarah,
That's a great idea, thanks :-) I do like the grain, although I am a bit worried that they won't stand out enough in amongst the garden on the Egg Hunt for the girls to find? My FIL has some lovely pieces of wood scraps though, rosewood and the like, that would be beautiful just stained.
Cheers, Julie
Your wooden eggs look lovely. The first Easter we had a s a family, I blew the insides out of real eggs (from our own chooks) and painted them. They looked good while they lasted, egg shells and kids just don't mix. I do like the idea of the wooden ones though.
Thanks for the link re the cocoa.
Hi Tracy,
Yes, that's why I didn't blow eggs myself! So pretty, but my 2 year old would destroy them immediately.
Cheers, Julie
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