TOLE EGG
   I keep saying I'm not an artist, I keep disproving myself.  Maybe I'm just never satisfied with the results.  The term "Primitive Art" keeps coming to mind.  I could be just a might proud of this egg though.  I'd never find an egg with Columbines and having been in this state over 30 years now, I call it, home.

THE 3 THAT STARTED IT ALL
     Bought in 1973 in St. Paul Minnesota.  I have then at odd angles to show off their markings.  Look up the art someday.  It's quite a delicate, dedicated art.  Takes almost a whole day to make one.  I usually make 3 or 4 or 5 at a time, when I make them.   I love the story that goes with them and why they are made.  I try to make an egg or two my self every year, gotta do my part to keep the "demon" chained where he belongs.    The collection will go on, and now I'm not done posting.  Just going to take a break, It's springtime and the garden calls.

    

RAINBOW MAKER EGG
   Prism type crystals, set in a framework of an egg shape. Delicate, lovely, and can fill my living room with rainbows on a sunshiny morning.   Thank you Keith, where ever you are.
 

JUNGLE EGGS
     Silly and fun.  2012 Lynette gave me the set.  It took me almost a year to figure out what to do with them and not quite another year to build the tree.  Who looked at an egg and saw a lion and a toucan and a monkey, hippos, and tigers.  The human mind never ceases to amaze me.

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2 TURKEY EGGS

   The Turkey egg at the start of this had been with me several years, but it never felt like it dried right.  A non fertile egg is actually porous and over time will dry out over time until the yoke is a hard ball inside and will detach itself from the shell and they rattle, like a child's toy.  If it was fertile, it doesn't dry right and that one literally "popped" as I was moving it back to the case.  I was not happy, especially since it was mid-winter and the chance of finding a local turkey egg was pretty helpless.  Time passes and one afternoon I found a gentleman in La Salle , Co selling non fertile turkey egg.  Yee-Haw!  A lovely Sunday afternoon driver, we met some lovely birds of several kinds, and joy of joys actually got to pet a very large Bourbon Red Tom, named Tim.  The smaller of the two came from his mate, it was still warm and the larger one had been laid earlier in the day.  We came home with  4 new eggs and a friend in La Salle, Co.  Thank you Mike, was a pleasure to meet you and hope to again, soon.

DISCO EGG
    Saw this in a Christmas shop, must be over 10 years ago, being a child of the 70's I could not resist.  Boogie Nights egg style.  Forgive me, I reminisce a moment. 

THE REAL REASON FOR EASTER, EGG
    I've always wondered about people that worship the cross, when I'd much rather remember the open tomb.  Christ is alive, well and busy and to me that empty tomb reminds me that I too shall live, be well, and busy in the life to come.  That why we celebrate with joy the season of Easter.  All my eggs remind me of beginnings without end, Of eternity and hope. Finding a holder with Easter Lillies was just a plus and I prominently display this egg in the cabinet, for it IS why.

PAPER MACHE GIFT BOX
       One of the oldest eggs in my collection, I found in at a gift shop in Sacramento, and it took a while to realize it was made of paper.  Long time before fimo or other clays.  You can actually see the small strips of paper it was made of inside under the many layers of enamel paint.  It quite pretty art work, but I wanted to show the form that makes it stand.  I think it's quite unique

MOURNING DOVE
     I never expected to have  Mourning Dove egg in the collection.  I have a Dove that lays eggs every year in my big blue spruce tree, and have hoped that, maybe, as she was cleaning out her nest I would find a broken one, mostly complete, but would never have taken one from her nest.  I didn't have to.  As hubby was crawling in the attic of the Central Denver Presbyterian Church, he and the building engineer found this in a rafter.  Not knowing what to do with it, the engineer almost threw it away, but hubby brought it home, thinking it was probably pigeon.  Nope.  It's definitely Mourning Dove.  It's dirty, I've washed it a few times, and I may try one more time, but I'm totally tickled to have this one in the collection. 

NOT PERFECT QUAIL
   Of all my imperfect eggs, this is the top of the mark.  How did that happen???  The woman than sold me the swan egg, gave me this one.  She had saved it for about a year, never knowing what to do with it.  When I told her about my collection, she made the offer, and I accepted.

NOT PERFECT CHICKEN
     It's flat side is not as visable as I could like, but it really is there.  This egg will not roll, apparently the hen laid his on a flat surface, and it stayed that way.  Lori wanted it in the collection and so do I.

NOT PERFECT TURKEY
   HOW????  No clue, but it is fun to look at.

NOT PERFECT TURKEY
       I understand the wrinkles in eggs, strange shapes in eggs, come from calcium deficiency.  Eggs do not come out of the hen nice and "egg shaped"  they're actually soft at the start and harden with air.  I don't care how it happen, I just think it's fascinating.

FABERGE STYLED PYSANKY
    There is a necklace, much smaller than this, that I took the idea from.  It's all gold, but the different layers makes the detail work.  On mine, I had to play with color density to get the same effect.  It was fun to figure out how to do the design.  For someone's who not an artist, I do OK

STARRY, STARRY NIGHT
      I do sing the song in my head as I move this egg around and maybe I should have posted a video of this one turning, 'cause its all there.  Vincent Van Gogh's work, especially this piece, has always intrigued me, and it didn't help when Doctor Who did an episode with his character, and yes I get teary-eyed when I watch it.