March 23, 2008
Our finished products
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Father egg
by Brendan. I particularly like his suit and tie. And his alarmed expression.
Mother egg
by Me. Her hair was meant to be yellow but it turned out sickly chlorine green. Cashel and I decided that she had had a "mishap" at her hairdressers. She also looks vaguely like that singing grapefruit from days of yore on Sesame Street.
Son egg
by Cashel. The red dots are NOT supposed to be chickenpox - I actually forget what they are supposed to be, but Cashel and I both decided that he had a bad case of the pox. You can't really stick with the plan in your HEAD when it comes to Easter egg design. You have to just go with how it comes out.
Daughter egg
by Me. She's home from college break. She has dyed her hair blue and says stuff like, "Everyone is so conventional." Cashel said, "She probably says that everything is 'so lame'." Exactly!!
The father's boss
by Cashel. (I love how old-fashioned gender roles are alive and well in the Easter Egg world. Mother in pearls and a hairdo, father in suit and tie who works for "The Man" ...) Also, I think the boss is awesome. He's dissatisfied. Aren't all bosses??
The Cyclops next-door neighbor
By Bren. I find him downright demonic.
Our nod to tradition.
By Bren.
The earth.
By Me. I realize that South America is WAY too low and that I have added some strange appendage to Baja ... but I did my best. And please notice that I have included Easter Island. I said to the group, "I'm putting Easter Island on now" and Cashel literally put his head down onto the table and started shaking with laughter, saying, "You're going into that much detail?" Nothing better (and I mean NOTHING) than making Cashel laugh like that.
Our group experiment.
This one was dyed in a mixture of ALL the different dyes as well as splashes of seltzer and orange juice.
Happy Easter, Sheila!
Nothing quite like sharing it with the family...we had 14 people over, and our fun time was spent on an egg hunt, watching the NCAA basketball tournament games, and our 4-times a year (Easter, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas) Holiday Hold 'Em Tournament. Not exactly a traditional celebration, but fun.
Posted by: Jeff at March 23, 2008 9:21 PMThe "Group Experiment" shows promise. There is always next year. BTW, I don't mean to denigrate any of the other fine specimens, and I think your depiction of Easter Island is inspired.
Posted by: DBW at March 23, 2008 10:53 PMBut of course if you are making an Earth easter egg it needs to have Easter Island....
Posted by: melissa at March 23, 2008 10:57 PMohhh.. cyclops egg is so misunderstood.
Posted by: mere at March 24, 2008 6:09 AMYour "group experiment" was called the "$5 egg" at my grandparents'. My grandpa would die eggs in four different colors and we cashed them in for their monetary value. Blue was 25 cents, red 50 cents, yellow was 75 cents, and green was a dollar, but the one dyed blue, red, green, AND yellow? That one was $5.
Score!
Posted by: Lisa at March 24, 2008 9:44 AMThe son egg has really bad acne. Acne!
Posted by: Cashel at March 24, 2008 10:21 AMCash - Oh, that's right! Acne!
Posted by: red at March 24, 2008 10:50 AMI LOVE THE BOSS!! He needs his own TV show. Like Gumby.
Posted by: just1beth at March 24, 2008 9:41 PMMere - your comment makes me laugh!!! Do you think he's just a lonely happy guy who wants to make friends and because he only has one eye everyone is freaked out??
Posted by: red at March 24, 2008 9:49 PMhmm. maybe its because you said he was downright demonic. I suddenly had to defend cyclops egg. Like he was hurting on the inside, but keeping a brave face.
I DON'T KNOW -i was having a moment! It won't happen again.
hahahahaha No, you know since you said that - all I see now when I look at Cyclops egg is not his demonic nature - but his eagerness to be friends with people. Ha!!!
Posted by: red at March 25, 2008 8:31 AMhahahaha! I knew you'd come around.
Posted by: mere at March 25, 2008 8:57 AM