Zombie throwback!
Anyway, I've been trying to do more projects and DIY type shit lately because I'm turning into a recluse and all, and my stepmom recently gave me some super sweet geese, turkey and chickens eggs, so I thought it'd be fun to try and hollow them out and make them purdy.
Three geese eggs, one turkey egg, one brown chicken egg- from Twin Palms Ranch,
plus two store bought white chicken eggs.
plus two store bought white chicken eggs.
I followed some pretty generic instructions I found online:
1.) Poke a hole in each end (one bigger than the other) with a needle of some sort
1.) Poke a hole in each end (one bigger than the other) with a needle of some sort
2.) Use the needle to jab and scramble about the insides to break up the yolk
3.) Blow on one end and catch the goop that comes out the other in something
Apparently some people are freaked out about dying of salmonella but I just like...didn't ingest any of the egg, and kinda rinsed my mouth region as I went.
The chicken eggs were pretty easy to poke into with a pin or needle, but the geese eggs (goose eggs?) were a LOT tougher, and I actually managed to break one of my thicker sewing needles! I actually found that using the tip of a small knife to break a little slit in it first and then following it with a thick needle (I used my cabling needle thingy) worked best. My first goose egg was a pretty big pain because the innards were a lot thicker than the chicken and turkey eggs, so for the next two I made the exit hole a bit bigger and that helped a lot.
I recently stumbled across this blog that inspired me to play with some natural dyes, and since I only had a few eggs I decided to just go with the turmeric, cayenne pepper and red cabbage. For the turmeric, I followed the directions and mixed 3tbs turmeric with 2 cups of warm water and 1/8 cup of white vinegar. I had a lot more paprika than cayenne pepper, so I decided to use them both to see how it turned out and mixed 2tbs paprika, 2tbs cayenne pepper and 2 cups of water with 1/8 cup of white vinegar. For the cabbage I followed the "hot method" directions and chopped up half a head of cabbage with 1/8 cup of vinegar and enough water to fill the pot, brought it to a boil, then a simmer, and then let them sit. Unfortunately, i didn't think at ALL about the fact that my eggs were hollow and wouldn't sink, so I had to get, uh, creative, to submerge them.
Yeah, those are cups on top of the eggs. Of course I could have dyed first, then hollowed, but I'm not sure that would have worked with the "hot method" and the cabbage ended up being my favorite color, so whatever. I let the eggs sit about 3 hours, at which point the cabbage and turmeric eggs looked pretty nice, but the paprika/cayenne ones looked pretty unexciting and brownish, so I rinsed them off and put them in the turmeric. But then I sorta forgot and went to bed, so they came out pretty dark and brownish anyway, but at least I was like, you know, well rested...
The brown eggs looked predictably dumb, so I decided to scrap it and use 3 yellow and 3 blue. The frustrating thing was that all the tutorials I found online explained the hollowing process in detail, but then just said something like, "String a ribbon through the eggs and you're done!" Which was not helpful because a normal needle wouldn't reach all the way through so I floundered for a while until someone sent me this link, which suggested using an unfolded paper clip with a hook at the end. I didn't have/couldn't find any pliers, so I just wrapped the yard (I used yarn, not ribbon, because it's what I had) around the clip and that worked fine.
Yippee! Some of the chicken eggs holes cracked a little when I was pulling the yarn through, but OH WELL. I just knotted the yarn so that it'd rest beneath the top hole and hold it up, then hung them in the door way at different lengths. A branch of some sort would also have been cool but our house is pretty teensy, so this seemed less obtrusive.
Mishka was obviously unimpressed by my efforts, but I had fun. Perhaps next year I'll try dying with red onion skins or tea or BEETS! Conclusions: geese rule, chickens drool. As far as egg-awesomeness goes, at least.
Yeah, those are cups on top of the eggs. Of course I could have dyed first, then hollowed, but I'm not sure that would have worked with the "hot method" and the cabbage ended up being my favorite color, so whatever. I let the eggs sit about 3 hours, at which point the cabbage and turmeric eggs looked pretty nice, but the paprika/cayenne ones looked pretty unexciting and brownish, so I rinsed them off and put them in the turmeric. But then I sorta forgot and went to bed, so they came out pretty dark and brownish anyway, but at least I was like, you know, well rested...
The brown eggs looked predictably dumb, so I decided to scrap it and use 3 yellow and 3 blue. The frustrating thing was that all the tutorials I found online explained the hollowing process in detail, but then just said something like, "String a ribbon through the eggs and you're done!" Which was not helpful because a normal needle wouldn't reach all the way through so I floundered for a while until someone sent me this link, which suggested using an unfolded paper clip with a hook at the end. I didn't have/couldn't find any pliers, so I just wrapped the yard (I used yarn, not ribbon, because it's what I had) around the clip and that worked fine.
Yippee! Some of the chicken eggs holes cracked a little when I was pulling the yarn through, but OH WELL. I just knotted the yarn so that it'd rest beneath the top hole and hold it up, then hung them in the door way at different lengths. A branch of some sort would also have been cool but our house is pretty teensy, so this seemed less obtrusive.
Ta-daa!
Mishka was obviously unimpressed by my efforts, but I had fun. Perhaps next year I'll try dying with red onion skins or tea or BEETS! Conclusions: geese rule, chickens drool. As far as egg-awesomeness goes, at least.
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