Glitter Easter Eggs

I have mentioned before in my blog how much I love GLITTER! With Easter approaching, I began to think of how I could use glitter?

Well, I found these Easter Eggs that were my mom's.

She was an Avon Lady for 21 years and passed away 18 years ago, leaving me with tons of crap stuff. I mean tons and tons of stuff! I have, for the past 18 years tried to get my dad to realize that memories of my mother are not found in unsold Avon crap stuff sitting in a garage but rather, in your heart.

Slowly, painfully slowly, and with some fighting and discussing, I have thrown out tons of stuff, donated tons of stuff, sold some stuff on eBay and kept some things. Including these eggs.

I was about to donate them when it hit me - Glitter Baby!

I used the following tools on this project:

I first glued the eggs together since they come apart. I then painted them the color of the glitter I was going to use so that the design did not show through.

Some eggs dried faster than others but once they were sort of dried, since I lack patience, I glittered away. What do you think?

The orange egg didn't come out that nice and you can see the design underneath. But the others look so sparkly! Look at that sparkle reflected with the camera flash.

Emerald Green Egg - Martha Stewart Glitter in Peridot
Blue Egg - Martha Stewart Glitter in Turquoise
Light Green Egg - Martha Stewart Glitter in Aquamarine Crystal
Orange and Purple Egg - Jones Tones Glitter
Pink Egg - Pastel Glitter

The ceramic basket was something I purchased years ago. The Spanish Moss was $1/bag from Dollar Tree. The glitter was purchased over the years with 40% or 50% off Michaels coupons.

Not a bad way to use more than 2o year old eggs that were headed to my church's thrift shop.

"God gave us memories that we might have roses in December." - J.M. Barrie