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

[sgtmom52]

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They are really nice ~ I got a couple of the Christmas ones at Michaels this week.

 

[Qi Chicken]

Ok!!! Back on track here! Thanks to you all I have found bead caps (1.50$ for 5, not quite the great ebay deal!) It turns out my daughter Ella, who is 6, is some kind of wunderkind. We were blowing out eggs tonight and she blew out three in the time I had half of one. Of course she makes her holes a little bit bigger than I do!


My bead caps have itty bitty holes. I got them at hobby lobby. How are you guys affixing the ribbon?

 

[The Chicken People]

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Do you bleach them after you blow them? My husband said they are as white as when they were laid? And I should just use them as they are or paint them. I just found out I only have 12 duck eggs and I need 13 for allthe members of our immediate family and that means no mistakes! Uh Oh!

 

[algopurple]

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Thanks for the laugh! Sounds like something I would do though!

 

[AkTomboy]

I scrub all eggs with a non-stick safe sponge, blow egg, rinse egg, microwave egg, scrub again, dry with dish rag. So far everything is sticking well, I use superglue gel, or the one that has a paint brush. I need to get pics up.....such a slacker I just got a 4ft tree and its amost covered all the way.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Oh my good lord! You poor thing. Any witnesses?

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Yes! Michael's had a 40% clearance and I bought them clean out of the Christmas ones. I haven't been using them though. I hit a wall with my other eggs... because like superchemicalgirl, I haven't the foggiest idea how to attach the cap beads and string. That step eludes me. Now I need to find gel type super glue.

 

[Tab's chicken obsession]

I've got a kit I bought for making clay beads that came with long spikes to spear the bead. I use the spike to thread my eggs. I have long flexible beading needles I fold in half around the string or cord and tape the open ends to the clay bead spike and then put it through the egg. Once the beading needle ends come through the opposite end of the egg I pull the cord through by the needle ends because the tape isn't strong enough to keep the needle ends to the spike when pulling it through all the way, it's just good enough to get you started through the egg.

 

[Muggsmagee]

Tab's chicken obsession :

I've got a kit I bought for making clay beads that came with long spikes to spear the bead. I use the spike to thread my eggs. I have long flexible beading needles I fold in half around the string or cord and tape the open ends to the clay bead spike and then put it through the egg. Once the beading needle ends come through the opposite end of the egg I pull the cord through by the needle ends because the tape isn't strong enough to keep the needle ends to the spike when pulling it through all the way, it's just good enough to get you started through the egg.

Tab's...I am pretty sure you left me more confused than I was before your post.

This is what happens to me...I am such a visual person...I just can't grasp the idea without seeing it.

 

[AkTomboy]

A few pages back a person posted pics of how they do the ribbons it was a great "lesson" without it I would have had no clue. Without reading all the posts of this thread so many things are so much harder, I know it takes a bit but lots and lots of tips and tricks in these 80+ pages

eta ~ It was sonew123 Im pretty sure