...well and two from a couple of years ago. Pulled out the old kistka and ordered some new dyes... Christina and Paula may have posted a couple of images too as I had a little egg-painting party. Anyways, these are Ukrainian Easter eggs, my mother taught my sisters and i how to do them a long long time ago and every few years i pull out the stuff and make a few. For anyone who is unfamiliar with this, it is a technique of layering wax and dyes in the right order to achieve the images when you melt off the wax. I have a nifty little "blower" too now so they're all blown and hollow. My favorite is the one with the swan (there's actually four on the egg). Happy Easter :-)
Thursday, March 25, 2010
This year's eggs...
...well and two from a couple of years ago. Pulled out the old kistka and ordered some new dyes... Christina and Paula may have posted a couple of images too as I had a little egg-painting party. Anyways, these are Ukrainian Easter eggs, my mother taught my sisters and i how to do them a long long time ago and every few years i pull out the stuff and make a few. For anyone who is unfamiliar with this, it is a technique of layering wax and dyes in the right order to achieve the images when you melt off the wax. I have a nifty little "blower" too now so they're all blown and hollow. My favorite is the one with the swan (there's actually four on the egg). Happy Easter :-)
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Wow, those are beautiful!
ReplyDeletePAAS dye is about as involved as I get with coloring eggs.
T-- I hope you don't throw out the dyes yet! I'd like to make 1 more egg this season...
ReplyDeleteSO pretty! I am sad I never finished my last egg. Next year!
ReplyDeletegorgeous!
ReplyDeleteFantastic, Theresa! I prefer the eggs that feature animals —really nice design work!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone! Sorry P & C, the dyes slowly started to dry up and i decided to use the dining room table again for other things. Next year it is, and if there's an interest maybe it can be a bigger party :-D
ReplyDeleteI want to try a dragon one next year. You and Paula are so amazingly good at this. Maybe one day I will be a quarter as good :)
ReplyDeleteYeah these are fantastic - I wouldn't trust myself with something that fragile :-)
ReplyDeleteha ha Christina! You picked up an egg for the first time and created a masterpiece! We all have egg-painting talent ;-)
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