I love doing Ukrainian eggs at Easter. I haven’t pulled all my stuff out for this year but I wanted to display mine and the girls eggs from previous years but I’m running out of ways to display them. Whenever we find real bird’s nests I keep them for this reason but I still don’t have enough nests! So I got the idea to make some out of shredding some books. It was really easy and worked better than I hoped!
I started by shredding up an old book (one that I’ve been using for some of my other projects). I found some bowls I thought would make nice nest shapes and then covered them with plastic wrap.
I just used a little bit of flour and water and started adding strips to the flour mixture and then placed them over the bowls.
It was about here that I thought, “Yeah, this is never going to work…” But it did! I just left them to dry and they popped right off and made beautiful nests. Here are some photos of my eggs…
I found these sand blasted glass eggs at a garden store. I thought they looked cute in a couple of the real nests that we had found.
I’m sure I’ll be posting more about eggs soon! Happy Easter everyone!
Very cool! I love these!!
You are so good! VERY cool!
Great idea–I may borrow this one too, and I may even take out my egg stuff today!
You are so creative! It’s fun to see what ideas you come up with. Hope all is well with you. Happy Easter!
What WILL you think of next?! I LOVE the book nests!
This is one of those posts that makes me think…”I am so lame.” And then I remember…”NO! Nobody is this cool. Only my dear friend Sugar. I am not lame. I am normal. And Sugar is amazing.” And then I take another sip of my 4pm glass of wine and try to forget what I could be doing if only I was born w/ Shoop genes. Or anybody else’s genes. Just not mine.
Thanks for posting this! I’m going to try to make your cute nests for my egg-dying & tye-dye party!