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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?
You could always make your own sugar egg!
ReplyDeleteI 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/