Eggshell mosaic: 4.5 inch egg, multicolor

Egg shells were dyed with pysanky dye, then dried and crushed and assembled into an abstract floral pattern on an apparently plastic egg which I just happened to find inside a paper egg purchased from Hobby Lobby.  The paper egg exterior i used for polymer clay egg (shown here) and the inside, which was pitch black, seemed to be the perfect background for an egg shell mosaic.  This particular egg took me about 10 hours (perhaps an unreasonable amount of time to spend on any egg, SMH) but for me it is a relaxing and unwinding task. Maybe one of you will appreciate it and give it to a friend or loved one for easter.

 

Egg plant : that was a pun — egg and polymer clay here, with plants

This egg was kind of fun to make but it started out as a piece that because of other demands sat for several weeks half done (just the two halves of the egg and a couple of grey round blobs). But in some free time I added flowers and leaves and stems. All these flowers are made with left over clay with flower petals from my Memory-bead business.
It actually goes against my principles of a pristine earth to make things out of plastic (which polymer clay and resin both are), so i am ultra conservative with every scrap.  The egg actually was divided, but i added the strands on the inside and pressed it shut with little round pink dots (haha).
polymer clay, egg, and flowers - eggplant or egg-plant

A little snake egg

I used a recipe for cornstarch and baking soda clay to create an egg shape (small) and wanted to try the method of dissolving out the base egg after the p olymer clay was cured.  I found it very difficult to dissolve out the base clay using a very small hole in the bottom of this one inch egg…. and in the process, broke it into several pieces…. but love’s labor NOT lost, it looked like something could be created (hence this little snake) that would emerge from the broken egg.  A little face only a mother snake could love (LOL).

The tiny broken egg itself I patched with liquid polymer clay (one can still see a tiny seam), then used polymer clay to weight the bottom of the egg to balance the weight of the snake. You can buy an egg like this HERE.

little one inch egg and tiny snake decorated