Primitive Brown Easter Egg Tuturial ... Spring is in the Air ...

In anticipation of spring ... I have been getting ready for all the babies that will be born and hatch out here at the farm. I have been busy readying the barns, pastures and nesting supplies.
And while the weather here, has been anything other than spring like ... I have taken advantage of the cold by creating a few more tutorials.
Today's tutorial is for dark brown primitive eggs ... these smell so good and are a snap to make. I know you all have most if not all the supplies!

Great do it your self texture ...

NOTE **** DISCLAIMER added on 3/12/2012: MAY CAUSE MESSINESS!!!!

Supplies:
plastic dollar store eggs
brown craft paper or paper bags,or newspaper even tissue paper
white glue
mod podge/ watered down white glue
brown paint
cinnamon, cloves, apple pie spice (ground of course and your choice)
wax paper
optional:
old wax candle


Start with dollar store plastic eggs ...

Glue the rims of them ... And snap them back together.

Now, if you want to make one with a hanger for all those trees you keep up all year. (come on, admit that you do) Find the indentation at the top of the egg ... it will look like this.

Take an ale or ice pick and poke a hole in it ...

For the hanger I took some natural hemp twine, and slipped it through the egg from the inside (loop will be on the outside of egg) Now tie three overhand knots on top of each other.

Glue the knot for extra security ... Not heavy, but still.

Glue rim as others and snap back together.

Tear your papers into small pieces.

Now take mod podge or watered down white glue and cover egg with the paper of your choice ... here I used all three to show you how they all can be used to add different texture. And that is what I wanted ... TEXTURE.

Now that they are all covered, take mod podge or white glue and paint one more thin coat over the top and let dry thoroughly.

See the amazing texture that the papers add to these plastic eggs ...

Paint egg with brown paint of your color choice ... Let dry.

Close up ...

Cover painted egg with white glue or mod podge ... Let it get a LITTLE tacky.

Cover egg completely with cinnamon by shaking it from the dispenser.

You can if you want stop here ... And they are fine ...

Or you can go on to this step and make them amazing!
Remember this crappy Yankee candle? Well, I have a ton of it left. So I heated it up in a pan of water on low heat.

Make your own egg dipper out of wire ... It's easy ... think back to the PAA's egg dipper ...

The ones with the hangers are easy ... Just hold by hanger and push into wax with your other hand until submerged.

And the ones without the hangers ... just as easy ... toss it into the wax ... roll it around until covered.

And then use your home made dipper to retrieve it! Easy!

Now that you have them out sprinkle them with a small amount of cinnamon, ( I use a pumpkin pie spice on mine) not to much, you want the wax to show, as well as the first sprinkling of cinnamon.

Let them harden ...

And display ...

So now for my take aways on this ... Lets call them Teri's takeaways
(sorry Martha) it just sounds better ... LoL! You can paint these with whatever color YOU like, I have in the past done these in pastels, and of course the reds, golds and greens, I have also done them in a robin egg blue and speckled them with black paint. The choice is yours ... I just like the brown with the most amazing texture. Also, my favorite is the tissue paper, it is not the easiest to work with but the best texture. What ever your choice just have fun with it!
Also on a final note ... Blogger is really getting on my last nerve ... Again, took longer to do this post than to make 2 dozen eggs!
PLEASE ... Blogger I'm begging ... leave things alone! It's NOT better ... if it doesn't work!!!! Just sayin'.
Have a great week all!

WSF