> > Until I was about 8 or so, every Easter, we would paint eggs at school. I have a couple at home (absolutly beautiful) that my grandfather did about 50 years ago in his spare time. As far as I'm aware, that's an art form thats dying out.
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> Yeah, I used to do that. Is that not where one pokes two needly-sized holes at the top and bottom of a raw eggs, blows out the white and yolk, then cleans, dries, and paints the egg shell? I used to love doing that :-) The bad thing about it is that they are very fragile and break easily.
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> ri "I gave up on doing that when I ran out of paint" a

That was how I did them at school. My grandfather's ones, though, were painted with the egg intact. The insides dried out over the decades and are now hard lumps the size of the yolk, roughly.

winter"painted eggs rule!"mute