My (late) Easter Egg Post

Soooo yes, I'm a little late.  Only one hour EST.  Not too bad...

Anyway!  Etsy.  Yes, Etsy.  I love Etsy (even though I've never bought anything from it); MANY people love Etsy (and they probably have bought things from it).  For those who do not know what exactly it is, Etsy is essentially the more creative cousin of Ebay (if you don't know what that is, sans auctioning.  If you don't know what Ebay is, Google it.  Etsy is a global market for people to sell goods that they have created, collected, etc.  It's fair to say that it's a bit more slanted to the Wes Anderson movie subculture...but that isn't necessarily a bad thing (sometimes...)!

Etsy, in their cute, crafty, Royal Tenenbaums-esque glory have posted two blogs that showed different ways of decorating Easter eggs.  And since I LOVE decorated eggs, I had to share pretty much them all.  Even if Easter is officially over.  Whatever.  Save these ideas for next year.  Or tomorrow.

From the website Orange Kitty Crafts:

Pointillism (never even HEARD of that!) and Origami Decoupage Easter eggs (and how to do them!)

LOVE the simplicity of them!

Next, we have even more Easter egg suggestions from the blog, Papersnitch:

Decoupage eggs

Neon dip eggs

Leaf print eggs

Polka dot Easter eggs

So many great ideas, why wait for Easter?

Bad Eggs pt. II

Nulaid Eggs, a South African egg company, had a moderately clever anti-bad egg campaign in 2007 done by The Juniper Drawing Room (also from South Africa - by executive creative directors Graham Warsop and Michael Blore, creative director Thomas Cullinan, art director Shane Forbes, copywriter Aviv Weil and illustrator Shane Forbes.).  Enjoy! 

 

 

 

embroidered eggs

 

This awesome piece of embroidery is done by Lithuanian artist, Severija Incirauskaite.  Don't Panic magazine has a pretty cool interview featuring this crafty artist, as well as other samples of her work.  

Halloween is near!

Egg - by Enric Torres

Egg Carvings

Well, that's not accurate.  They're not so much carvings as they are...burnings?  Etchings?  I know a small laser light is used, but I'm not sure what to properly call these.  

ANYWAY, big thank you to my friend Leah for sending this my way.  The artist, Cai.Sculptor (aka Zhong Gui Cai), is a genius.  He uses eggs from ducks, geese, quail, chickens,  and ostriches to make these elaborate "carvings". 

If Indiana Jones looked for eggs...

...he'd find pysanky.  Pysanky, the traditional Ukrainian Easter egg, is by no means a new tradition based in Christianity.  Try more like 6000BC and the Trypilljan culture.  While obviously it is impossible to find examples of actual egg pysanky, numerous ceramic relics have been found dating back to about 1300 BC. 

Each symbol, color, line, plant, and animal motif has specific meaning and purpose.  When you think about current day Easter egg packs, and the bunnies, chicks, flowers, and color pots, it all starts to slowly make sense.  Of course, these things are incredibly badass looking versus just being purple with some squiggle lines. 

This site has an amazing breakdown of each symbolic meaning found on a pysanky.  From suns to moons to crosses to horses to the color brown...the next time you look at an extravagantly decorated Ukrainian Easter egg, try to decipher what exactly the artist was saying. 

50 Yuan, egg-style

homestudio created this amazing replica of a Chinese 50 yuan out of 530,901 eggs....holy shit. 

 

Screw dying...

as in Easter egg dying. 

Forostyuk Inna, a Ukranian artist, did these mind blowing cross-stitches instead.  No idea how, but if you scroll down to the comment section, there are some decent "maybe" suggestions. 

Another egg artist is retired Slovenian electrician, Franc Grom, who painstakingly pokes as many as 17,000 holes into goose eggs using an electrical drill to replicate traditional Slovenian designs.  Holey awesome! (haaaaaaa.....)

Seriously, amazing stuff.