Easter 2024

Eggy time!

I yet again boiled 2 eggs and painted them the day before Easter. Since I’d been on the knitting machine all day, my creativity was a bit lackluster but I really love the end result of these.

The plan was basically to hold the egg between two fingers and make a polka dot pattern around those fingers so I could continue to hold them without becoming a paint monster myself. I tried it first with the blue one and it worked out great. I love the simplicity and I love the blue, even if it’s a bit splotchy.

For the second one, I did a similar thing, but now I wanted polka ovals. So I picked one of the colours in my paint box and just made a bunch of ovals. The shade of red is slightly less appealing than the blue, but it still looks great. Honestly, this was a perfect way to end a knitting day.

2022 Eggsploits

Somehow, the year has flown by and it is time for Easter. Not sure how that happened but it does mean that it is EGGTIME! This year, I celebrated Easter with other people and I brought some eggs. That meant more canvases and therefore a very egglectic assortment of imagery. Some might have some eggcidental paint splodges but who cares. I present to you, the 2022 Eggspoits!

It all started with Punk Egg. I wanted to use some wool fluff for the top of his head. He’s wearing a black vest and has several earrings. He’s so punk, he’s sticking out his tongue. Punk on!

Time for Jailbird Egg. Parading around in his striped shirt and hat, looking grumpy Jailbird Egg is waiting for escape! Perhaps he’ll be rescued by Fancy Lawyer Egg?! I don’t know what I thought here, I just wanted to do a swirly moustache. He’s got fancy hair, a spotty shirt and a tie!

Princess Alert! Snow White Egg is casually lounging around in her blue & yellow outfit, sporting a cute little red bow in her dark hair. She’s waiting for Ariel Egg to come visit. That purple shell bra, bright red hair and fancy green tail are sure to keep all the tongues wagging!

Yarr, Pirate Egg is sporting the tell tale eye patch and funky beard that pirates are known for. His red striped shirt is sure to portray extra pirateness. Finally, Harry Potter Egg joins the party, his speedy hair, fancy scarf and lightning scar make it clear to everyone that Harry Potter Egg is there to steal some thunder!

Do any of these make sense? No.
Did I enjoy myself? Yes.
Goal eggcomplished!

Eggs 2021

Even if Easter will again be a solitary affair, I’ve still got to paint me some eggs. As usual when I do Easter by myself, I boil two eggs to decorate and eat. This year I painted one and used colour pencils for the other. The eggs were really white this year, so a real blank canvas. However, my levels of inspiration weren’t very high so I just made a reverse toadstool and then I coloured swirls on the other one. It was fun playing around with eggs again.

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Easter – solitary edition

As always, Easter requires the painting of eggs. Since we are in lockdown, I’m doing the solitary Easter this year – although we did do a digital Egg hunt via Discord in the front yard of my parents. It was glorious. We also had a verbal egghunt in a message that my mother had recorded, so we were Eastering away.

In preparation, on Saturday morning, I boiled some eggs, while at the same time making scones and preparing bread dough. I also had a dragon that needed finishing. Perhaps it’s not strange then that I put the eggs aside until about 22:30 at night before actually starting to paint.

First step, pinterest egg designs since my creative brain has gone on holiday and I cannot follow it. One of the first things I saw was a combination of black & white eggs with different designs (here). It really appealed to me, so I got out my paint and started on giving one egg a white base coat and the other egg a black coat. After waiting for them to dry, I added triangles to the black one and stripes to the white one. That’s it really. I quite like this minimalist design.

Easter 2018

As always, eggs needed to be painted for Easter. This time, I happened to be at my parents on the Friday before Easter, so we invited my brothers and their partners to come along too. After having dinner, I forced everyone who was still there to paint eggs with me. We boiled twelve in different colours and painted them with water paints afterwards.

My creativity was a bit lacking, so I only made two. This time, they were all not recognizable. I still had fun, and I think the others did too.

My one brother took 6 home because we wouldn’t be able to eat 12 with just the three of us. On Saturday, I was the only kid left. I still made my mother hide the 6 real and 6 chocolate eggs in the front yard, and my dad and I searched for them (we found them all!), before commencing with some cheater Easter lunch. I enjoyed myself and the streak of finding eggs is still going strong!

Easter 2017 – Communal Effort

This year, my parents invited us all to their house for Easter, where we reinstated the tradition of painting eggs and trying to find them in the garden. I brought some water colours home and the whole family was convinced to paint the eggs. We also used some of those egg painting tablets in six colours to give our boiled eggs a base coat on Saturday evening while my dad was preparing dinner. There were quite a number of different types of eggs; sexy ladies, aliens, stripes, minions, cloudy ones, a hedgehog and other indescribable things. In total, 20 eggs were painted and on Sunday morning my mother hid them and the garden and we had to go find them. The neighbours, I think, found it very intriguing to see 5 adults walking around a garden and looking in and behind every plant. We enjoyed it and managed to find all the big ones, and 19/20 of the small chocolate ones. Hopefully we can improve on this next year!

The ones I made included one with two colours base coat and stickers, a striped one, one alien and a triple eyed minion. I have been more creative in the past, but it didn’t matter. We had an hour of fun and even my non crafty brother participated and managed to create some nice eggs.

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Eggcelent 2016

Painting eggs with Easter is a necessity for me, you can see the evidence here, here, here and here. This year, I had my parents come over for lunch, so I painted 6 eggs. You will now be regaled with too many pictures of the eggs, good luck! In order of awesomeness

Minion egg

It’s a minion, clearly it’s awesome.

I added the googly eye, because I knew I wouldn’t be able to paint a nice eye. Also, googly eyes are the most fantastic things. They are currently also stuck to my laptop, phone and mp3-player.

Galaxy egg

This was a very dark egg with some planets and stars on it. My mother was kind enough to hide all the eggs for my father and me to find. This one was the last one we found. The reason was that it was put into a glass in a black closet, completely camouflaged. Super awesome.

Owl in tree egg

It’s an owl in a tree, I know, it’s not the most obvious one, but then my painting skills are lacking at the best of times. I still quite like it.

Duckling egg

This is the duckling egg, where I attempted to create a baby duck or baby chicken. My mom hid this one between my rubber duckies on the window sill, and my father eventually found it after I missed spotting it about four times. (This may explain why I can never find anything..)

Pig egg

It’s a little piggy, I managed to put his tail on upside down.

Landscape egg

This was where inspiration ran out. So I painted a blue sky with green grass and flowers.

The crew made a good egg salad.

For this occasion I also made some egg-cups by cutting up an egg carton, spray painting it with the only spray paint I owned (black) and adding three layers of varnish. Some have one long pointy bit, others have two rabbit ears. I quite like these also. After the three coasts of varnish, they are now quite sturdy, and according to the packet should be able to handle some water, but I haven’t tested that.

Colours!

This will be a double feature involving two projects with a lot of colour! Let us start with the obligatory Easter eggs. As you may know, I have this ‘tradition’  of painting hard-boiled eggs for Easter, proof can be found here, here and here.

This year was a little different though. I was not at my parents house for Easter and I therefore couldn’t force my mum to hide eggs in the yard. I was also alone and would not be able (or willing) to eat an enormous amount of eggs to facility my painting habits. Moreover, I didn’t have time (or energy) on the Saturday to paint my eggs. So Sunday morning, when I woke up, I put my laundry in the machine and boiled two eggs. I let them cool in a pan with cold water and after 15 minutes or so, I took them out to paint.

What to paint on my two glorious eggs. I googled a bit and decided on the classics, polka dots and stripes. I used my (new-ish) watercolour paints and dotted the first egg with some nice colours. The second egg was made with different colour stripes. Tadaaa!

I also ate them approximately 3 minutes after taking the picture.. Egg salad on pita bread (empty cupboard and shops closed for Easter), it was nice though!

—- Part 2! —-

The second project was based on a suggestion by my mother. She said that I should make a poppy (more information here and here) from my left over pyjama fabric. So I did. As the fabric is so differently coloured, the poppy is red on the from and blue on the back. I chose to make the little hat in green/yellow. I like it.

Here it is sitting up.

So these were my two colourful projects. I liked them, and I hope to keep the eggs tradition alive. Someone needs to paint for the Easter bunny, right?!

Easter!

I interrupt the backpack journal for a message: HAPPY EASTER!!

As known (here and here), I celebrate Easter by having my parents hide painted and chocolate eggs in the yard. Yesterday I painted the eggs, this year, 6 eggs were chosen  (since we were only with three). Only one egg split, so that had to have some alternative colouring. I had fun, even though it took a while for my water based paints to dry between coats. Hereby, I present to you: Easter Eggs 2014!

To start, welcome Ladybug/Turtle into your heart. She is half ladybug (red with black spots and a black head) and half turtle (green with brown stripes). She’s a bit ambivalent about living quarters. Sometimes she just wants to fly while at other times that is a bit too fast. Most of the time she manages to find a spot that is *just right*

 

Next up: Deep in the Sea! Blue with fish (some have run a bit, but I still love her). Deep in the Sea prefers the more aquatic of environments. Its occupants like to show off and don’t mind some water pressure one little bit.

Followed by: Garden (flowers, grass, butterfly and the sun) and its good friend: Stripes! Stripes often joins garden when they lay around in the grass absorbing the sun’s rays and generally enjoying life.

 

The split one: The Man! He was created with a permanent smile in his face, a pretty bow tie, blue hair and dotty clothes! He’ll never be unhappy but might be a little mischievous.

Last but not least: Dotty Beachball! Quartered up into different colours with dots in the previous colour. She likes to sunbathe and smell some sea every now and again.

Here they are all together. They would like to wish you a happy Easter too!

 

Easter!

So it’s easter again, which means, of course, easter eggs! This involves painting (for the tradition, see here)!

Well, this year it’s all going to go a little differently from the last gazillion years. For one, my parents are still on holiday and I have to pick them up around 10:30, so it’s not going to be early Sunday morning. For two (is that a legal expression?), I had to babysit the whole of Saturday, from 12 to 22, so it left me very little time for painting. For three (I’m going to say it is), I found a ‘make your easter egg shiny and stuff’ paint set in the supermarket and of course wanted to use.

The plan was as follows, or actually, there was an a plan and a b plan. The a plan was wait until you get home again and paint some eggs. The b plan was hope that the babysit child wants to paint some eggs too, and do it there. Plan b was successful! When we went to my house to walk my dog, we also brought back some eggs and egg painting things. The process was weird. Boil eggs, drip strange shiny sticky paint on a glove and rub the (hot) egg in it. Then apply silver shiny stuff and hope it sticks, which it often doesn’t. However, we had fun throughout and that’s what counts. Since we are only with three tomorrow, I only boiled and ‘painted’ six eggs. I hope it will be enough. Here they are.

 

 

You may also be surprised by the last picture. Meet Pluis, Pluis’ face doesn’t look like that, but he moved before my shutter had closed again. Pluis has been living in my house for a couple of months now, but a couple of nights ago it was the first time I determined that all those sewingbloggers-with-cats are right. Cats seem to prefer work area for laying on. This case it was an enormous pattern piece for a dress I’m working on. He also decided to try to lay on my crumply plastic bag with pattern pieces and pattern magazines in it. Stinking cat, but cute, oh so cute, I tend to forgive him almost anything. I’m a bad cat parent. Maybe you’ll see more of Pluis in the future. Who knows, I’ve got enough creativity left in me, I hope!