eggshell art

This is nothing short of astounding!

Artist Gary LeMaster creates beautiful intricate art out of eggshells.

Can you imagine the skill and patience required to keep from cracking the eggshell?

Aren't they absolutely amazing?

Photos from here.

Click here for previous posts from the Art series. Click here and here for previous posts on eggs.

what are you good at?

I like the idea of decorating eggs with typography (I wonder if this is easier than dyeing eggs here?). But inspired by this book by Andy Selsberg...

I'd change the words to: Whatever you are, you ARE good. You Are Good At Things celebrates one's secret skills and unrecognized abilities. It calls attention to secret talents that are typically taken for granted. Like having the uncanny ability to always notice when someone has gotten a new haircut or how you can make the last half-ounce of toothpaste last for a month or a talent for wrapping gifts using very little tape.

Because my mom is good at giving her kids names that will never appear on key chains at gift shops (read: my brother's and my names are uncommon and hard to spell), I have the awesome ability of spelling people's names correctly. I am very conscious about how people spell their names and I make sure that whenever I say, write to them, I spell their names the right way - doubling letters that need to be doubled and resisting to end names that typically end with an "ie" with an "i" if that's how she spells it.

What about you? What thing are you good at? Of this carton of different easter eggs, my favorite is the one that reads POSSIBILITY.

Because it's true. The possibilities of what we are (and can be) good at are endless.

Happy Easter!

Photos from here via acupofjo.

happy easter!

Two Easter Sundays ago, upon waking up, I greeted Noah "Happy Easter!" and he responded with, "What's that?!" So I bolted out of bed and brought him to church! See how one Sunday School class did wonders... in this page out of Noah's scrapbook...

Yes, Jesus is risen! The stone was rolled away! Jesus lives!

Today, Noah knows this because his Sunday School teacher told him so. I sure hope that one day he will know this because he knows in his heart that it is true.

Happy Easter everyone!

Photos are my own and from here and here.

Click here for a different kind of Easter - the easter egg kind of Easter.