Painted Easter Eggs

I bought some wooden easter eggs during a sale at Joann Fabric's online site. Of course, this sale occurred after easter, so my eggs will be waiting almost a year to be displayed in our house. We don't even really do easter. I never had an easter basket as a kid, never did the easter dress thing, never did the egg hunt... And, to be honest, I'll never desire participation in most of the traditional easter rituals. So, this is one of the holidays for which I have the fewest decorations.

I love spring, though. And I love a pile of brightly painted eggs. So, I painted me some.

And I used some varnish to seal them afterward.

I used a glue gun to lay down circle stands where the eggs could sit as they dried. This worked moderately well. The glue circles should be sized appropriately to your egg size. And taller than mine were to truly hold the egg. They did work. But I'd more carefully plan their measurements next time.

I do love my eggs, though. Bright and cheery and springy. Just what they should be.

April Fool's Day

April Fool's Day is fun when you mess with your husband. Mine is a technology lover. To be fair, I suppose that anyone might be upset if they thought their laptop might have been ruined with nail polish.

I purposely spilled nail polish I never wore anymore onto plastic wrap and let it dry in the basement for a couple of days. When dry, I could lift it like this:

 

Then, on April Fool's Day, I placed it on his keyboard like this:

And then I gasped, and called for him. 

I stared at the spill with a horrified expression. His reaction: to grab tissues from the coffee table and yell, "Well, don't just stare at it!" I started laughing right about then. Because I'm terrible at holding it in or keeping a straight face.

Then, I got spanked. ;) All in good fun, of course.

Totally hilarious.

Totally worth it.