Who doesn\u2019t love gorgeous Easter European style Easter eggs?\u00a0 These stunning eggs, with their delicate designs and tracery, are known as pysanky Easter eggs.\u00a0 And you don\u2019t have to spend a fortune buying pysanky Easter eggs that other people make.\u00a0 Instead, you can skip the boring old monochromatic Easter eggs this holiday season and create your own pysanky Easter eggs.<\/p>\n
When it comes to creating pysanky Easter eggs, the supplies that you pick up for your regular Easter eggs are simply not going to cut it.\u00a0 You need special supplies that are made particularly for these pysanky Easter eggs.\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry\u2014they are not going to cost a fortune, but you still do need them.\u00a0 There are particular dyes that you will need to purchase for your pysanky Easter eggs, since you simply cannot use food coloring.\u00a0 Also, you will need to purchase a specially made stylus that has a funnel on it into which you put your beeswax.\u00a0 There are some other supplies that you need in addition to these basic ones.<\/p>\n
Additional supplies needed for pysanky Easter eggs<\/em><\/p>\n Egg blower You can also use a syringe to empty the egg.\u00a0 You can use any sort of syringe that you purchase at a medical supply store or an agricultural supply store.\u00a0 Just make sure that you purchase a syringe with a very, very small and thin needle.<\/p>\n Varnish Household supplies for pysanky eggs<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 Eggs:\u00a0 you can use chicken, goose, duck, and even ostrich eggs.\u00a0 The eggs must be raw and they also must be at room temperature when you start to work with them.\u00a0 Before you choose an egg and begin to work on it, hold the egg up to the light to ensure that there are no hairline cracks in the egg.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0 White vinegar. You will use the white vinegar to clean the egg; combine half a cup of water to one tsp of vinegar.\u00a0 You also need the white vinegar to strengthen your dyes if they start to fade (other than orange and pink dyes).\u00a0 If your dyes are too pale, add a teaspoon of white vinegar to the dye.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0 Newspaper to cover your work area.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 Tissues to blot up wax, to clean the stylus, to dry the eggs, and to wipe off the wax.<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0 Candles.\u00a0 You need candles not for their wax (you use beeswax), but to melt the wax that is in the stylus.\u00a0 You also need candles to melt the wax off of your eggs.<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0 Other materials:\u00a0 You also need:\u00a0 spoons, pencils, cotton swabs, elastic bands, and a home made drying rack.\u00a0 To make the drying rack, pound short nails into a flat board in a tripod formation.\u00a0 You will need to use finishing nails because they have smaller nail heads and they won\u2019t leave much of a mark on the egg\u2019s varnish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nWhile an egg blower is an optional tool, it does make it much easier for you to empty out the eggs that you are going to be decorating.\u00a0 Egg blowers are not very expensive.\u00a0 They consist of a very large and black bulb.\u00a0 This black bulb has a small hole at one end, that has a very small and sharp spike in it.\u00a0 You use this spike to carefully drill holes in both the top and the bottom of a raw egg.\u00a0 The bulb should also come with a thin metal rod that you can then put into the holes that you have drilled.\u00a0 This rod will break the egg yolk, which you have to do in order to get it out of the egg.\u00a0 After breaking the yolk, you put the metal spike back in the egg and very slowly and carefuly squeeze the black bulb.\u00a0 The egg yolk and the egg white will come out of the other end of the egg.\u00a0 You can then rinse the egg out with water.<\/p>\n
\nVarnish is optional, but it certainly makes your pysanky eggs look much, much better.\u00a0 You can use several types of varnish: you can use either shellac, or varathane, or clear gloss varnish.\u00a0 You apply the varnish after they have dried and you have taken the wax off of the egg.\u00a0 Make sure, however, that you test the varnish on a very small area of the egg first so that you can ensure that the varnish will not make your colors run.<\/p>\n