Art Fun 101

i saw this on the pinterest board and had to come see if this was hybrid! clearly you plus SWL and Paula fooled me (way to go!) - also very cool eggs - can i ask is the candle to meltsome kind of special wax/crayon pen to draw/paint all those details on the egg?

@bellbird Yes, the candle is to melt wax. You use this little metal cup of wax that has a small opening at the bottom. You hold the metal cup near the candle to melt the wax and then draw on the egg with a fine line of wax. Then you dip the egg into dyes for each color. Then you add more lines of wax and then dip into another color. Then when you're done you hold the egg near the candle again to re-melt the lines you drew and wipe them all off to see your pretty egg design. It's so cool!

That sounds like a complicated twist on 'normal' egg dying (the kind I see US scrapbookers doing with their kids at Easter; I think we've only done it once or twice when DD was little). Please tell me they aren't just cooked & smashed & ruined just to eat at the next meal?! They look like they should be in a glass cabinet on a stand like a Faberge egg!

@bellbird Nope! Definitely not smashed. When you're all done you poke a hole in the top and bottom and then blow the egg out of the shell... so they are super fragile, but then some people glue a little cap with a hook on top and then hang them of a little tree.

@Karen that's a much better way of displaying them. I did an Easter tree one year the kids were little, every one thought I was crazy, I knew other people would get it!