And lo and behold! in a charity shop a lovely book leapt into my hands - Decorating Eggs by the fabulously named Deborah Schneebeli-Morrell. That got us keen to put on our much-loved aprons and begin.
First up, painting polystyrene eggs. When you get these, the surface is a bit honeycombed, but a couple of coats of gesso or a glued on layer of napkin soon sorts that out. And then...off you jolly well trot, sticking, painting, pinning.
My biggest find for getting these to look good was sequins and bead pins, which meant that I could position stuff accurately, which I don't think I could have done with glue.
Next up was a direct project from the book, these sweet little egg birds. Some cool and crafty friends came over and look what we did! We used hens eggs and very lightweight origami paper and I hung mine from some twisted willow twigs, along with some beautifully handpainted eggs that I bought at the Easter market in Vienna a couple of weeks ago.
Aaah...
