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Sunday, March 22, 2026

Mosaic Easter Egg

Longer days, later sunsets, and warmer temperatures whisper to me that spring and Easter will soon be here, even though snow and ice cover my yard. These signals of spring prompted me to share an Easter Egg Mosaic wall hanging I made a couple of years ago.

Image 1: Mosaic Egg, 15in high by 10in wide.

This project gave me the excuse to unapologetically use a favorite color combination... pinks and greens, and whites and ivory. The decorated egg design allowed me to use a variety of vintage floral china pieces to form quick stripes.

Image 2: Mosaic

I used an egg shaped wood "welcome spring" sign purchased at a resale shop for the backing of the mosaic. Then I selected eight or nine different floral plates and made a striped the Easter egg. Simple and easy.

Image 3: Mosaic detail

A "side goal" was to use a plate that had 12 two-toned pink roses framed by pastel greenery on the rim. This project allowed me to repurpose a damaged plate, as well as celebrate other lovely floral borders.

Image 4: 3D Mosaic Egg

A much earlier project, my 3D Mosaic egg, was inspired by an Easter Egg display in New York City (post here). This 3D project has lots of flaws. I include it here because it was a beginner attempt that I actually finished, and learned a lot from.

Image 5: 3D Mosaic Egg

The 3D egg above is large - 11 inches (28cm) from top to bottom, about 8 inches (20 cm) wide, which makes it difficult for me to work into a spring vignette.

The flat egg below has dimensions of 15in (38 cm) top to bottom and is 10in (25 cm) wide.

[ BTW, I'm showing some of these pieces on a vintage tablecloth. ]

Image 6: 3D Mosaic Egg

Thank you for visiting! Apparently, I tipped into the milestone of having 1,000,000 views on my blog (over 18 years, but still!) I don't know how accurate that number is, and I think the counter started on 2011 but nevertheless it's a fun number for me to see!

I made the popular posts column (which you can only see on a PC, not a phone) show the all-time most popular posts. Maybe I should make a post on just the top posts?

In either case...

Have a fantastic Easter
and enjoy your spring!
[If you are in the Southern Hemisphere,
Enjoy the start of Autumn...]

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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Fantasy Spring Nest with Eggs

fantasy Spring Eggs in Nest flowers by Jeanne Selep siberian grass

Fantasy Spring Nest

Locations south of me are seeing signs of spring, but here in Wisconsin we had snow this weekend. To get in the Easter and Spring mindset, I decided to share a fantasy spring bird nest with eggs. The nest is real, the eggs and flowers are real, but the photo is entirely "styled". The photos where taken on April 2 in a previous year.

Fantasy Spring Eggs in Nest

When I find abandoned bird nests around my house, I place them outside on my window ledges. For this 'vignette', I used one of those nests, store bought quail eggs (that my kids wouldn't eat), and placed the nest in a blooming patch of early spring flowers.

Fantasy Spring Easter nest with eggs flowers

Fantasy Spring Nest

Enjoy!

Happy St Pat's Day,

and Happy Easter!

Notes: I planted the flowers, Glory of the Snow (Chionodoxa luciliae) long ago. Glory of the Snow blooms very early in spring with upward facing blue flowers, making it a lovely and welcome sign of spring here. The flowers spread easily (with encouragement). What does 'spreads easily (with encouragement)' mean? You place the tiny bulbs in the lawn, and over years the flowers will spread slowly, within a couple of square feet. If you want to have it spread over multiple areas you have to place the bulbs there. It seems to grow better in the shade, and the bulbs don't seem harmed by lawn weed chemicals.

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Easter 2020

Flow Blue Mosaic Cross (on vintage wallpaper)

Easter 2020. It crept up on me quickly this year, and it will be unlike any Easter before us, for a huge part of the world that celebrates Easter.

Egg1: Pink Polymer Clay Floral Easter Egg in vintage Egg Cup

For my family, it will be an Easter without the extended family gathering, without church services (in an actual church), and without the student's hurried return to college campuses.

Polymer Clay Easter Egg - Butterflies on back of Egg1

A fast (same or next day) post-Easter return to colleges and schools has been a part of the pattern of my life for well over two decades now, with my children spaced as they are.

Egg2: Purple Polymer Clay Easter Egg - Floral Side View A

This year the college kids have already been home for weeks, and will be staying home much longer. I initially delayed planning and decorating for Easter, distracted, but now I am determined to make this Easter special at home, partly because it won't be as rushed as in previous years - "come home late Friday, leave Sunday."
(One of my children always had college classes on Good Friday.)

Egg2: Purple Polymer Clay Easter Egg - Floral Side View B

The patterns of other's lives has changed as well, I'm sure. So many different lives, so many radically different changes.

Egg2: Purple Polymer Clay Easter Egg - View C: Back (Butterfly) side

I hope you find a way to make Easter special in spite of, or because of, your changed circumstances.

Eggs signed in polymer clay with ACH

Reach out to elderly people, college students, or others who may be in total isolation, encourage those who deserve or need acknowledgement, encouragement, a smile, a wave, groceries, or something else. Remember, alone (or not), we are in this together...

Flow Blue Mosaic Cross

About the Easter photos in this post:

I made the mosaic cross last year, using some chipped flow blue tea saucers and other blue china.

I got 6 vintage chick egg-cups recently for about $2 each. They are quirky and not "beautiful", but ownership has made them grow on me and I love using them for soft-boiled eggs from the insta-pot.

The two polymer clay eggs were estate sale finds. I marvel at the expertise of the artist who made, since I have tried some FIMO clay projects myself. The "canes" she created are inspiring. Though they are beginning to crack, I am happy to own them, I enjoy looking at them every Easter, and now this post documents them if they eventually fall apart. The artist, "ACH" signed the eggs in clay, so if anyone knows who "ACH" is, let me know... (unlikely, I know, but someone this skilled may have been a teacher...)

*** SURPRISE NOTE ***! I think I found out who ACH is - The creator of the Easter Eggs is possibly Angela Hickey of Polymer Clay Creations
who has this Etsy site.

My Wish List Egg Set (2011) (Hint for my family?)!
2009 Egg A, 2009 Egg B, 2011 Egg C, 2011 Egg D, 2011 Egg E, 2009 Egg F, 2009 Egg G
2013 egg H, 2013 Egg J, 2013 Egg K, 2013 Egg L, 2014 Egg M, 2014 Egg N*
2014 Egg P purple*, 2014 Egg R pink*, 2014 Multi colored Egg
2009 Round Ornament, 2011 Star Ornament, 2012 Bell Ornament

Flow Blue Mosaic Cross (on vintage wallpaper)

Once again, try to stay healthy and sane!

Happy Easter!

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