Blue/Brown Eggs, Easter/Christmas Eggs - Getting my craft on!!

[okiemommy]

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sorry to early in the morning to have read that post

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything b/c I would have spit it all over the computer

 

[Javamama]

How fragile are these eggs once they are finished? Do they last years and years?

 

[evonne]

my guess is with proper handling they'll last as long as you want them too?? they're as fragile as traditional glass balls ... how long can you keep those... they don't last long at my house... lol

 

[fldiver97]

Now you all did it....you made go to Michael's and find stuff.....I thought I'd loose my last marble in the store though.

First I went to the scrapbooking supplies, slim pickings for rub ons usable for Christmas. OK, found two that I thought may work. One is poinsettas, not too bad. Then I came across another area by the glass etching stuff - they had more rub ons.....for wedding, summer, fall themes.

OK, forget about that and move on.Oh - look, bigger sheets of rub ons, right next to the wood decorating/working stuff!!! Nah, huge Chickens, Ivy, Kid themes. Wrong, don't need that...

After what seemed like hours I was on the other end of the store. Well, don't you know - they had Christmas themed rub ons there....

OK, found some silver and gold stuff, some angels. Got some gold glitter spray just for a light sprinkle, got thread, goop for coating the eggs, a pokey type of tool I found in the jewelery making isle, toohpicks I already have at home, same for wooden shish-kabob thingies.....

OK, after my endless crusade this afternoon I am home, ready for a glass of wine to recover from this - but no, I am on call for anoher two or 3 hours - no drink for me.

These egg ornaments better turn out great, they have been so much work already!!!!!

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

Hobby Lobby works good too. I could live in that store

 

[Acre of Blessings]

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What area of Hobby Lobby did you find the Rub-ons? I couldn't find any nice, nice ones and the only ones I seen were in the scrapbooking isle.

And no one there even knew what a bead cap was....

again.

 

[trilyn]

Here they are - my 2009 Christmas ornaments for my tree. I add new hand made ornaments every year. I really like these.

You should-they're stunning!

 

[MissPrissy]

Thank you!

 

[okiemommy]

my guess is with proper handling they'll last as long as you want them too?? they're as fragile as traditional glass balls ... how long can you keep those... they don't last long at my house... lol

hahaha amen to that

I have blown egg ornaments that my great aunt made back in the 60's and 70's and those wont go on the tree until the kids are a lot older. They've seen them, we talk about them, and they know who made them, but if I put them on the tree, they will surely be destroyed. Now the ones I make, do go on the tree.

 

[algopurple]

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What area of Hobby Lobby did you find the Rub-ons? I couldn't find any nice, nice ones and the only ones I seen were in the scrapbooking isle.

And no one there even knew what a bead cap was....

again.

I asked the lady working near where I thought they would be and she told me to go some place way off from what I was looking for

and later when I did find them she was working in that area and never noticed that I was looking in a different place than where she told me at what I wanted. She was too busy talking to my little boy I guess. Anyway I got them in the scrapbooking section and ya just have to have a lot of time and patience to find them and there aren't many choices. I didn't just get christmas rub ons. I figured I could get some of the flower and kiddy looking ones for the people that have kids that I am going to give these to. I also got a few wooden stampers and different colored stamp pads and am going to try and see how that works. I got the smallest ones they had and found a fake egg there as my model to see how it would go on lol I was walking around with one of their fake eggs holding it up to all kinds of things trying to see how that would look.