Easter eggs

I had a wonderful Saturday at my great aunt's house with my mom, cousin and aunts. We decorated Easter eggs using a Ukrainian method. In it you cover the egg in melted beeswax in different patterns and then dip it in a color mixture. This can be repeated many times thus creating complex (or just simple, like mine) patterns on the eggs. Finally, the wax is melted from the egg. Unless you want to use the gold dust, which is dapped on to the wax to create an embossing.

You can read more about the process and see beautiful eggs here (or just google "Ukrainian eggs"). On that site the directions have you using a special "pen", but mine are mostly done with pin heads and small cut feathers. Anyway, the basic method is the same. You dip your instrument in the melted beeswax and put it on the egg in places where you want the color that is currently on the egg to show. Then you dip it in another dye and repeat.