Eggstravaganza!

I love the simplicity of these urban alphabet mugs.  Too bad so many names in our family start with the same letter!  Oh why didn't I name my children Viceroy, Xavier, Ulysses, and Zuzu?!   People need to start making alphabet mugs with more than one picture option..... like "A" with an ant, "A" with an apple, "A" with an anvil... that way we can all have our own hot chocolate mugs and not get them all mixed up with each other.

These delicate hand carved eggs take my breath away.I so want to reach out and push a piece out of the puzzle egg.

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The eggs on the left look victorian but the ones on the right are an actual victorian-era wild egg collection.  Totally Master and Commander.

I knew the White House had an Easter egg hunt every year  (which I think is an absolutely happy tradition which makes me proud to live in this country, for real) but I had no idea they made special souvenir eggs. I don't know why I didn't, it seems obvious now. I wish somebody had a gallery of every one ever made.  It was actually hard to find these ones - I got them off of Ebay!  Lots of them are signed by presidents on the back.  I'm not a collector, (except of movie tickets and beach glass), but if I were this would be a cool thing to show grandbabies.


















Look at the following closely. How do people even think ofstuff like this?!

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Notice the elaborate Ukrainian eggs (pysanky).  My grandma made beautiful ones and had them hanging in her kitchen window at Easter.  I have lovely memories of watching the light shining through the thin hand blown shells while she deftly cooked breakfast while murmuring the rosary, pouring orange juice in small white bumpy glasses and handing out translucent cod liver oil pills.  Life at grandma's was exotic.  I made pysanky once, but now the only Easter eggs I create are in my post titles.