Easter Eggs Past and Present

One of my favorite things to do around Easter time is decorate eggs! You might have caught my recent Twitch stream where I created some for this coming holiday. You can watch it HERE.

Back in 2014, I had one of my most productive Easter egg-making years when I decorated one a day for 20 days leading up to Easter. I used a different style for each day, and had fun finding different ways to photograph them as well. I even submitted one to a Martha Stewart decorating contest on social media (the quilt-inspired one seen in the slideshow below) and it was featured in the final round of voting!

I’ve experimented a little throughout the years. Once, I painted Cadbury mini eggs with food coloring—so cute! I added rhinestone embellishments another time. Last year, I tried my hand at carving an egg shell with a Dremel tool. I have yet to master that, haha. Most of those have ended up cracked and ruined.

Although I would love to one day learn some of the traditional methods of decorating Easter eggs, such as the Ukranian process of pysanka, I mostly stick to just using markers and pens. It’s easy, quick, and not as messy as dyes and paint. If I use water-based markers, they blend very well but I do have to be careful not to touch with wet hands or risk smudging. Once in a while, I blow out real eggs, but have lately resorted to fake craft eggs—again easier, and also more durable. My kids got ahold of some of my past Easter eggs I had saved and smashed them to bits. Sigh.

For a closer look at the eggs I made this year using brush markers, go to THIS POST.