Posts from — März 2010

I had this idea yesterday. I haven’t painted one egg since kindergarten but today I landed on the Sharpie’s homepage and when you can use Sharpie’s to paint on Chuck’s well… you can get freaky on an egg as well. Easter is coming faster than I thought so all I needed was a pack of white eggs as the pens were already there (ordered them from all over the states as in Germany they’re nowhere to find).

Easy task I thought but I was not aware that eggs get stamped before they hit the stores so I had the problem how to get rid of those pink numbers. Tipp Ex works. Works perfectly fine. But looks bad. Really bad. Don’t do it. My fabulous new colleague Annette had the idea to use a nail file and YES that is much better. I took a picture of the result but as there was nothing to see anymore… you get the hint.

I decided to have a theme. “Tattoo Eggs” As I’m turning 30 this year a new tattoo is due so I painted the eggs with potential designs. First I blew them out which was a real mess but it provided dinner as well. Then drew on them with a pencil.

Right after this picture here the egg fell down. If you consider to do something similar I recommend you let the eggs dry for a day so that the rest of the slimy inside isn’t all over your hands. First: it makes the egg slippery which isn’t the best factor to work with. Second: it’s sticky, your hands will get dirty from it and the mess will be all over your working area and now try to use an eraser on an empty egg….

This is how they got finished – I just used a black Sharpie for the outlines and colored the rest in whatever color came to my hand. That’s all the magic. And I like them a lot! They will make a super easter decoration arranged in a bowl.

I’ve made 3 traditional tattoo themes: Happy Easter with cherries, a diamond and a star. 2 swallows facing with a star underneath and a sacred heart.

Here we have a koi fish and a swirl with some cherry blossoms representing japanese tattoo style. Here I’ve found out that Sharpie’s don’t mix with water because I thought of making a more watercolor -ish design but unfortunately that doesn’t work. For the swirls on the koi egg I used a Copic marker with a paint brush tip which worked pretty nice with a bit of water.

And here we have a sugar skull which actually looks like an egg head which wasn’t meant to be but as it was the first egg I’ve painted I wasn’t aware of the bowing (and here you can still see traces of the pencil)

That was the first round of painting eggs. I plan one more session using something different. Don’t know yet. Wouldn’t have thought it could be so much fun. Before this year easter was all about eating chocolate and loads of lamb. But my creative juices are flowing now and I will not stop them :-)

Are you making easter deco yourself? What are you up to? Is anyone having an idea for a nice wreath? I’d love to see your suggestions.

SPRING!! I don’t know about you guys but don’t we all look forward to eating strawberries and cherries, walking over a misty meadow with no shoes on, seing all the summer flowers, watching a sundown over your favorite city, laughing until your belly hurts, going to a street fest, eat something from the grill and drink an ice cold beer directly from the bottle, seeing the trees bloom and buying a fresh bunch of tulips?!

Yay! I can’t wait… Have a great week!

Today was such a good day where simple things made me happy. I think my wallpaper of today reflects this a bit. This lovely quote is by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette a french writer, journalist and dancer. Sending some love your way wishing you a good time this weekend.

The smaller version is hidden here.

This day started good. I woke up – being in a fabulous mood (kinda rare for me). The radio played a song that made me dance while brushing my teeth (Mariah’s Heartbreaker). And then on my way to work my serendipitous ways led me to this:

Someone left a book at a random place and lucky me found it. These are the tiny things in life that totally rock my world!

The plastic bag says “I’m a special book. I wasn’t forgotten here nor lost nor disposed but I was set free on purpose to find a new reader. You can find more info on www.bookcrossers.de (or .com) where you can track my path. Please take me with you, read me, leave a note of my whereabout on the mentioned URL and set me free again!” (in German though)

What an excitement! The book is sweet and called “Little reading for a settled Capricorn”. If the title was “for a … Leo” I’d gone NUTS. :-) Yay!

Just something I’ve thought of today…

A is for artistic
B is for beautiful
C is for creative
D is for delightful
E is for ecstatic
F is for fabulous
G is for great
H is for happy
I is for irresistible
J is for joyful
K is for kind
L is for luscious
M is for magical
N is for nutty
O is for OMG
P is for pretty
Q is for quirk
R is for radiant
S is for supercalifragilistic
T is for tricky
U is for unbelievable
V is for very nice
W is for wonderful
X is for xciting
Y is for yay!
Z is for zig-a-zig-ah

Blossoms, originally uploaded by Miss Valentain.