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THose are incredible! 😯 I can’t imagine the paitience it would take to do all that! What lovely reminders of you grandmother Pegasi. I hope non of them are ever harmed in any of your moves!!
Thank you! I can imagine that it took some patience to do them. When I move they get packed in lots of tissue paper, bubble wrap and peanuts. There are a few cracks here and there, but nothing major.
I wish I could remember what some of the ones looked like that we lost over the years because of being dropped on the floor or other reasons. She made so many of them it’s hard to keep track.
Oh Peg, your grandmother’s eggs are so incredibly beautiful!!! Thank you so much for sharing them, and her, with us. 😀
How cool! Do you know how she carved them? Have you ever thought about learning to make new ones? (It’d be a lot of fun to do when your son gets old enough to participate.)
We learned psanky when we lived in Canada (early 80’s) and our neighbors were Ukranian. We still do some every year around Easter (so I know what you mean about eggs being tough & delicate at the same time).She either used a dremmel tool or a dentist drill. I can’t remember which as it’s been 14 years since she passed away. I think we gave her tools to someone who was in a club with her when she lived in Birmingham, AL. I have considered learning how to make new ones. Something tells me she would be proud if I did. I just can’t draw worth a darn so I couldn’t do any painting of flowers like she did on that one angel egg.
I wrote a newspaper article on a gentleman who does psanky eggs where I used to live. He only does them during Lent. It was really cool seeing how it was done and didn’t look to hard so I guess I could always start there.
Quote:I wrote a newspaper article on a gentleman who does psanky eggs where I used to live. He only does them during Lent. It was really cool seeing how it was done and didn’t look to hard so I guess I could always start there.
It’s not hard! Very fun. I used to have a how-to series of photos up on a website…I’ll try to repost them. Anymore it’s easy to order the stuff you need online (and they have all kinds of electrical tools now too that make it easier, but using candles & such is way more fun). I’m interested in how to cut open & shape the eggs… I guess she started with a pinhole like you use for blowing the eggs?
boskydragon wrote:Quote:I wrote a newspaper article on a gentleman who does psanky eggs where I used to live. He only does them during Lent. It was really cool seeing how it was done and didn’t look to hard so I guess I could always start there.
It’s not hard! Very fun. I used to have a how-to series of photos up on a website…I’ll try to repost them. Anymore it’s easy to order the stuff you need online (and they have all kinds of electrical tools now too that make it easier, but using candles & such is way more fun). I’m interested in how to cut open & shape the eggs… I guess she started with a pinhole like you use for blowing the eggs?
Yeah he gave me a catalogue from one of the places he got his supplies from and they are online as well. I think I still have it, if not I’m sure I can Google it. I’m not really sure how she cut the openings out because she never did that when we were visiting, but I would imagine it would be similar – just in the side of the egg rather than on the ends. Most of her eggs have pin holes at the top and bottom where they were blown out, she just found ways to disguise them.
Pegasil, those eggs are exquisite! Thank you for sharing them, and your Grandmother, with us. Such lovely memories they must hold. And I second the opinion…If she did not win awards for those eggs, she should have.
pegasi1978 wrote:boskydragon wrote:Quote:I wrote a newspaper article on a gentleman who does psanky eggs where I used to live. He only does them during Lent. It was really cool seeing how it was done and didn’t look to hard so I guess I could always start there.
It’s not hard! Very fun. I used to have a how-to series of photos up on a website…I’ll try to repost them. Anymore it’s easy to order the stuff you need online (and they have all kinds of electrical tools now too that make it easier, but using candles & such is way more fun). I’m interested in how to cut open & shape the eggs… I guess she started with a pinhole like you use for blowing the eggs?
Yeah he gave me a catalogue from one of the places he got his supplies from and they are online as well. I think I still have it, if not I’m sure I can Google it. I’m not really sure how she cut the openings out because she never did that when we were visiting, but I would imagine it would be similar – just in the side of the egg rather than on the ends. Most of her eggs have pin holes at the top and bottom where they were blown out, she just found ways to disguise them.
I had to look it up and I found this http://www.todeirdre.com/pages/Pysanky/PysankyMain.html I am sure there is more info on the web. It looks really cool.
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