BS: Easter ovums

Subject: BS: Easter ovums
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 09:50 AM

Here's This Year's Batch. Not that they're spectacular, but a friend put us onto something I hadn't heard of before; the six eggs that show up deeper colored and glossier were shelled first, then dyed in regular egg dyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 10:36 AM

I like the one with the stars. Really pretty.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 02:52 PM

my hol(e)y easter eggs

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Amos
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 03:11 PM

Mudguard, how do you do that?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 03:16 PM

It's all explained on the "Ausrüstung" page. :-) (the pictures help!)

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 03:20 PM

With a shotgun!


















;-) no, seriously:
with a dremel (you know, one of these hand-held drilling machines) and a 0.5mm, 1mm, 2mm, 2.3mm, 3mm, 4mm, ... drills - at high speed and low pressure.

I first drill a hole at both ends of the egg, then remove the eatable stuff by blowing into one end. Then I wash them out, dry them, then do the drilling. For removing the thin skin I put the eggs into a cleaner containing chloride but no acid - that removes the skin but leaves the calcium carbonite untouched. Then I dry the eggs again.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 03:21 PM

Sorry, my easter egg page is available in my mother tongue only (i.e. in German)

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 04:00 PM

Surely they should be ova, not ovums.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Amos
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 05:23 PM

Thanks--I couldn't believe such delicate results were produced by a Dremel.
They're beautiful.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 05:35 PM

Thanks Amos.
What I do not display on my web pages are the many eggs that break during the process ...

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 05:55 PM

Or are they ovi? But seriously, they're really beautiful.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 05:59 PM

no, not ovi.

If you use the Latin plural, it's ova.
ovums is the Englishified plural ...

ovi would be genitive singular (plural would be ovorum).

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 06:34 PM

Now THAT is what I call SERIOUS Smart Arse ! Discussing a THIRD languages' fine points in his Second Language ! Good on you Andy !

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 07:04 PM

Terry, as I learned (read: had to learn) Latin before English, this is discussing my 2nd language in my 3rd, not 3rd in the 2nd.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 07:24 PM

ovumstentialist

That's me pretty much now.

I use a stencil when I decorate 'em.

Art ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: frogprince
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 10:59 PM

Now I'm glad I started this, just because I got to see mudguard's eggs; love 'em.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Peace
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 11:26 PM

My best friend works in a sperm bank. They hid all the eggs. Now he's out of work.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 11:46 PM

Nice Eggs but I think I'm still better off when I have help from Farmer Brown and the Easter Bunny working together. Just watch how
Farmer Brown Helps the Easter Bunny Lay Colored Eggs!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Peace
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 11:50 PM

Jaysus, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 03:38 PM

Spaw, was that farmer one of your illustrious cousins?
1. How did you find that?
2. Why did you bother?

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: topical tom
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 03:52 PM

MudGuard: Englishified??

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 04:55 PM

"Englishified": maybe the more common (i.e. not invented by me) word for that is "anglicized"

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: bobad
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 05:55 PM

Some of my wife, Claudia's, creations: pysanky

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 09:41 PM

Wow; we experimented with psanky a couple of years back, with a kit my wife had had for years. We had fun with it, and still have the nice bright colorful eggs. But I couldn't even begin to touch the quality of her work.

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: open mike
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 12:37 AM

i had the pleasure of doing a video interview with a
Ukrainian Pysanky maker...beautiful...the egg i got
from her is missed
(as it was lost in the fire last summer) see also:

http://www.pysanka.com/
http://www.learnpysanky.com/
http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/pysanky.html
http://tostanoski.com/pysanky.html
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/ukisite/pysanka/pysanka.htm

here is a detailed picture of how they are made..
http://eggselegant.qcommerce.com/creation.htm

i tried a few too, but made them the traditional
way (with the egg intact...yoke and white inside
or i guess that is yolk, ) anyway i will insist
on blowing out the innards of any others that i
make as the ones i made exploded in the attic --
phew!! what a stink...

i did get a few chickens from an interewsting breed
that lay (notblue and green colored eggs as auaucaunas do)
but maroon or brick red-brown eggs...Marans from france
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Marans/BRKMarans.html
these are interesting birds...

here is another drilled shell
http://www.vagabondish.com/stunning-eggshell-art/

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: open mike
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 12:41 AM

http://digg.com/d1IWVb
other drilled shells

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 12:44 PM

Me thinks that
A sperm bank is just another word for seminary!

Now-------lets all oof us try to sing this to the tune of "Me and Bobby McGee." It's possible, but doesn't quite scan.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: topical tom
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 01:38 PM

I really did know what you meant, MudGuard. I was just funning with you. LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Easter ovums
From: MudGuard
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 02:36 PM

@bobad resp. Claudia: brilliant!

@open mike: I know I am just at beginner's level.

@topical tom: I was not sure whether my punny invented term was understandable - I am not a native speaker of English, as Terry Leadfingers already mentioned ...

@catspaw: shouldn't that be a 'possum instead of a bunny?