Category: Custom decorated eggs

This egg-loo (igloo) became just that because my granddaughter saw the partly cut egg in my basket of scraps and mentioned it looked like an igloo… thus, I was compelled (haha) to turn it into just what she mentioned, and added a little soap carving style polar bear.  He is fat from all that salmon, but is made from a cockatiel egg as his main body part, with legs and head added later.  The egg-loo is made from a chicken egg, blown and washed, covered with polymer clay, cut out with a dremel cutting blade, covered with a rectangular yellow-white-transparent polymer clay and yellow iridescent powder so it will glow in the night (for a few hours per the source description) with a icy blue covering which was then indented as a mortar joint would be. Then the egg was cured, and the indented joints were filled with white polymer clay, cured again, and then sanded and coated with Varathane.

This is a goose egg, which for whatever reason I felt needed to be recycled with a new look, and it was one of the first eggs onto which I put various left over scraps of polymer clay and polymer clay canes.  It is kind of a “can I really do this” type of egg.  I show the bottom here because I think that this is the part of the egg that really was the most fun part of the experiment.

Frog egg with butterfly made with real chicken egg and polymer clay is one of my favorite eggs so far. Just like “froggie” in the tp commercial, these eyes can never shut or forget, this tongue can never rest.  Ha Ha.  This animal egg took quite a few steps, initial covering of the whole egg, drilling out the holes, adding the layer of cane slices (which, by the way, contain commemorative flower petals, making this piece unique memorial-keepsake for someone), then adding eyes, eyebrows, legs, and lastly, the tongue (which has rose petals in it – the dark spots) and butterfly.

My grandaughter and her parents visited me in August 2016 and we had soooo much fun with polymer clay, and this is sort of a composite egg.  I filled in a few blank places.

This egg was created by reinforcing a blown chicken egg with some left over polymer clay, a fine sheet rolled out, then cut and molded around the whole egg. Pin hole placed in the end to let air escape during curing.

After curing the first time, two different flower canes were applied to the outside, and smoothed around the edges and sides with a brayer, then cured again. The flowers were added to the  inside by sculpting with “memory” polymer clay, which has flower petals ground into it… specifically to commemorate some special event. So many of these keepsakes are customized for individuals who wish to remember someone or something.  You can see other memory items made with polymer clay HERE.

This was a fun egg, quick, and also used up some left over clay from a visit by my granddaughter, her mom and my son.  I just rolled this lump of different colors, and a left over slice of cane or two (you can see the one that looks like a fried egg…. ha ha) and used a brayer to smooth it out.  I DID forget to put a hole in the bottom of the egg, so that when the air expanded the egg had quite a few little volcanos that became part of the jungle effect.  One thing I did surmise, since failing to put a hole in the eggshell and uncured polymer clay covering pops out a bulge just where the egg was blown, this didn’t happen in this case.  I attributed it to the fact that these eggs were very inexpensive, extra large, and I had noticed how fragile the shell was, and thought that perhaps these had been weak shells to begin with allowing for air to escape from places other than where the egg was blown.  Just in retrospect I won’t probably buy that kind of egg again for eating, since if air can escape, then there is the possibility for contamination to get in as well.  But all in all, I did like the serendipitous results.

Little cockatiel egg with polymer clay striped cane made with glitter red, black and some metalic colors.  The egg stand just over one inch high.