Not much on the Egging Front this week -- I'm reading up on mortgages (yes, I'm buying the house after all) and preparing a breakfast for a curriculum committee. I did manage a few things, though. My "No Egg Left Behind" campaign continues, with a dozen fresh recruits culled from about ten years' worth of sporadic egging. I've finished three of the eggs so far. My favorite is an accident egg -- it didn't turn out how I planned, and I'm thrilled with the result. This one started out a nice, light yellowy-peach. I waxed little dancing people on it and left it. A few years later I coated it with "dye" from one of the German kits purchased through HomeCrafts. The mother-of-pearl color I chose just didn't have the pop I wanted, so I stuck the egg in a carton.

This year I waxed a few more dancing figures on it, and dunked the whole thing in dye without much hope. It came out beautifully -- the egg had rested on the bottom of the dye bath and I forgot to turn it, so the natural focal point was a lighter peach patch on one side of the egg. The mother-of-pearl dye from the German kit took the dye very well. The darker color lends it some highlights and shadows it just didn't have before. I also hit it with Fabric BloPens, but they didn't add much. There just wasn't enough contrast between the pen colors and the egg's beautiful scarlet. I'm thinking about adding some rubber stamp embossing powder to it, but I'll wait until I've had plenty of time to experiment with the technique. The picture really doesn't do this one justice, but I wanted to capture a reminder just in case I somehow break the egg.