Morning funny and a Tutorial for Prim Eggs

Good Monday morning friends - I'll start my post out with a little funny that happened this morning.  Mr. Whimzie and I were sitting down to breakfast.  I made eggs and he made the toast.  He got out some elderberry jam out of the fridge for his toast....I was starting to eat and not really paying attention to what he was doing when I heard him say...rather disgustedly...."REALLY HONEY"!  I looked up and said "WHAT?"...and he said...."I don't think this is elderberry jam!"  He showed me the jar and I had to chuckle....somehow my jar of black prim paint made it's way into the fridge and he grabbed that for his toast!  We had a little laugh about that one - he sure puts up with a lot....bodies hanging around, priming messes on the table and island and now yucky jam!

As we were sitting there I also heard what I thought was lots of birds...I opened up the window and I was right....a huge flock red wing blackbirds was sitting in one of the big trees out front - what a WELCOME sounds that was.

Okay...now onto the tutorial!

I first saw this idea from Teri over at White Sheep Farm.  I changed it up a bit to use what I had on hand, and here is my version of Prim Eggs!

Items you need for these Prim Eggs

Plastic eggs from dollar store or craft store

hot glue

brown craft paper or brown packing paper or thin brown bags, torn into 1"-2" strips

Mod Podge or White glue

Water

bowl full of spices...I used cinnamon, ground cloves, nutmeg and instant coffee granules

If your eggs are in two halves, you will need to hot glue them together.  do this carefully so that you don't end up with a ring of glue around the middle.  If your eggs are whole - that's even better.  

Once you have your eggs glued together, you will need to make up a mixture of white glue or mod podge and water.  I used about 1/2 and 1/2 for my mixture.

Dip your paper strips into the glue mixture and place on eggs, overlapping and ripping the pieces to fit.  Cover the entire egg with at least two layers, so that you can no longer see the color from the eggs showing through.  Press down any stray edges as you go.   Place the wet eggs on foil.

You can see that my first batch had the hot glue ring on some of them...you don't want that!

Let dry thoroughly...overnight is best.   Once they are dry, you will need to make another mixture of white glue or mod podge and water.  Make this mixture a bit more gluey than the first and brush it over the entire paper covered egg.  Immediately dip the eggs into the spice mixture and roll them around, coating well.  Return to foil and let dry for 4 hours.

You are almost done now....Mix up another mixture of the glue and brush it over the 'spiced' eggs.  At this point you can decide if you want to re-dip them into the spices or just let them dry completely.  I only dipped mine once, but if you want a thicker coating to hide any imperfections, go ahead and dip them twice.

Once the eggs are dry, you can use them as you wish....in a bowl, a basket or whatever your creativity leads you to do! 

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!

Later this week I will be showing you another version of these prim eggs which I am sure you will love so don't forget to check back.