craftgrrl | I had me a pysanky-filled day!

Pysanky, also known as Ukranian Easter eggs, are surprisingly easy to make and extremely fun. They're made similar to batik in that wax is used to "keep" certain colors on your egg, which is dyed. The waxing and dying process is continued until the design is finished, when you melt the wax and rub it off or soak the egg in mineral spirits, revealing the design. Not only is this fun and easy and seems to be the only craft I'm naturally good at, it's cheap as well. I buy my supplies from the Ukranian Gift Shop.

My first tryptillian egg. I was unable to get the pencil marks off of the white. *siiiiiiigh* I screwed up a little, too, but I'm surprised by the almost perfect symmetry of this one.

First attempt at the pink and black egg. I messed up and had to dance around that, but it turned out okay. You can't tell it's a mistake! :) The colors are perfect on this one.

This is what the pink and black egg SHOULD look like... except for the fact that I made a very stupid mistake so part of the dye didn't take.

Egg #3 from the side.

Evidence of my lack of attention to detail (the mistake I refer to above).