I first found this book in my local library while trying to find books on decoupage and egg carving. Needless to say, I fell in love with this book and the easy instructions for decorating eggs in a variety of ways. The first decorating technique was to "paint" eggs with colored wax. I could not find a candle stove like the one in the book, but found an excellent substitute by purchasing an electric candle warmer/hotplate and using small glass votive candle holders. The wax I used to experiment with was a box of crayons for $1.00!!! Once I got the technique down, decorating the eggs was really easy. This book covers many of the other egg decorating techniques, including pysanky and decoupage. In addition, there are many suggestions for making wreaths and trees using the eggs you make. For beginners, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Many of the projects are very easy to do and a lot of fun as well. The only downsides to this book, as I see it, are the lack of a list of suppliers for things like the wax stove and the colored varnish, as well as some picture substitutions in the more advanced sections which created a little confusion regarding a particular project. This turned out to not be as big a problem, however, as I thought. Again, an electric candle warmer/hotplate solved the wax stove problem and I substituted colored nail polish, a fast drying lacquer, for the colored varnish! As for the switched pictures, just follow the text and look at some of the other pictures of completed projects and you should be fine.Read full review
I bought this book thinking I would receive instruction about Ukrainian style of egg decorating. To my most pleasant surprise the book focused in length and great detail on the "Drop Pull" method of egg decorating which I had wanted to learn but didn't know where to find a book on it! There are several beautiful projects illustrated in full color and directions are clear. If you ever wanted to learn this method of egg decorating this is the book for you!
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