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| My Egg with a View |
Believe me, making this egg was a piece of cake compared to photographing it. Oy! That was hard work and I don't think I was very successful. If you revisit this post later, you may find new photos!
But, enough of my whining! This is my Egg with a View. I have to admit a lifelong fascination with those hollow sugar eggs with a bunny inside. My friend Jan has one that someone made her when she was a kid and I covet it openly. Since I'm unlikely to ever have my own sugar egg, my solution was to make this Egg with a View.
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| The scene inside includes two bunnies, a tree, a giant mushroom and a basket of carrots. |
This egg started life as a brown papier mache egg from the craft store. I started by cutting a hole in it, then I decoupaged the exterior with circles of bright fabrics.
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| A very bad photo of the back of the egg showing the decoupaged circles of fabric. |
Next, I painted the interior and filled the bottom with plaster of Paris. I glued in green colored sand for grass, then I went searching in my collection of vintage miniatures to create the scene. The tree was meant for a 1950s railroad set, the bunnies and giant mushroom are from the 1970s. I made the basket by decoupaging a circle of fabric and forming it around a pencil top, then filling it with plastic carrots. Lastly, I trimmed the hole with rick-rack.
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| Mmmmmm... carrots... |
I love miniature scenes and this one is no different. It may not have the elegance of a sugar egg, but I'm pretty darn pleased with it.
Time to go vote! Which is your favorite project?
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1 comment:
You could always make your own sugar egg!
I saw these the other day...
I had to search to find the right mould as we don't have much of a selection in the UK (unless I ordered it online but you know how it is when you want to work on something NOW!)
I finally found the right mould today- it was part of some packaging and had a chocolate egg inside so naturally I had to eat that, couldn't have it getting in the way of some creating!
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/how-to/how-to-make-diorama-sugar-eggs-113007
http://www.instructables.com/id/Peekaboo-Sugar-Eggs/
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