More Egg Decorations...

Featuring Sandra with her special and expensive egg-holding tripod.

Sandra adds her special touch...

With sequins, white glue, a blown egg, and a toothpick, Sandra adds sequins, ribbons, beads, pearls, and other decorative items to produce exquisite egg decorations.

The sequins are poured into plastic cups for control and better management. The cups can be stacked to save space. Glue is placed on the egg, then the sequins are picked up by the toothpick and placed in position on the egg.

It's good to work very low over a dish or a towel in case the egg is dropped, and if you work long enough, they will be dropped. You'll break a few, but gradually confidence will come, and you'll break fewer.

Expensive, but worth it...

In this photo, the essentials for decorating eggs are show:

White glue: There are many formulations and brand names. I personally like Sobo for crafts, especially for bookbinding. It remains very clear and flexible when dry.

Plastic cup holding sequins, red plastic plate on which some glue is squirted for ease of access, a toothpick, and the egg resting on a plastic tripod...these complete the items shown.

The plastic tripod is very expensive, costing somewhere around $10 US, but it is worth it for the ease of working with the eggs. It's probably the packaging that makes the tripod so expensive. It comes packaged with a Pizza Hut carry out pizza. The pizza and the cardboard box protect the plastice tripod, though some would assert that the box and tripod protect the pizza. Regardless, the pizza and box can be discarded in some ecologically sound manner and the tripod used to hold the egg as a work in progress.

Some additional eggs that we have decorated...

Sandra has used a variety of sequins, beads, and trim in these egg decorations. Some of the flowers, for example, have been cut from larger pieces.

The spirals are very effective. The egg in the foreground of the left photo has red sequins and pearl sequins...much like peppermint stick candy.

Some of my piddling....

I've had fun making Santas. A bit of cotton from an vitamin bottle, a red berry from a Nandina bush, and plastic eyes from a craft shop...zap! Instant Santa.

Well, not quite. I like to use some watercolor to make nice flesh color with bright cheeks, and to paint some expression into the mouth...huge toothy smile for example.

I painted one egg Santa with the mouth open, intending it to be a singing Santa. With the large round plastic eyes, it didn't quite work out that way. It looks more as if Santa's mouth is hanging open as he's just said, "Whaaaatttt??? You want THAT for Christmas??!!!"

Red holly berries; black, red, white felts; fur trim.....lots of stuff could be used to make these decorations which bring a smile as they stare back at you. They help to keep me in line...yep, Santa, I've been a good little boy....

Now this is just a hodgepodge...

I just started gluing things on without any plan or goal. This was the first egg I tried, and I simply wanted to get a feel for what was possible. Sequins with small beads and pearls glued to their centers; green ribbon material with beads and sequins glued to it; a star shaped bead threaded on the loop at the top to add a finishing touch. Yeah, "finishing touch"! Ha! No planning at all, but still... it's a happy project that I enjoyed doing, and this fantasy egg does add a bright spot to the tree.

Turn it loose. Let it out of the cage...

Assemble whatever you choose for decorating blown eggs, then turn it loose...the right side of your brain, or perhaps the left side if you're left handed. Create! Don't be critical of your work as you do it...let it flow...sense of time will go...you'll be caught up in the creative process.

And I'm not sure that there is really such a thing as a "bad egg", decorated, that is. You may like some better than others, but the best of the worst is better than none at all.

Have fun!

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