Eggcelent Nest
I must admit that lately I have had a bit of an obsession
with apothecary jars. I love to display them and have enjoyed changing the
items in them seasonally. At Christmas I had candy canes, mini presents and
mini Christmas tree bulbs in my three jars. At Halloween glittery skulls,
skeleton bones and ghoulish eyeballs.
Now that spring is around the corner I have turned my focus back to
these clear beauties for the perfect spring items to place in my jars. After some brainstorming I decided to make a
robin's nest for one of my jars.
I used brown excelsior I had laying around the craft room
for the nest inside the jar. I painted
three wooden eggs in an acrylic Robin's
egg blue paint color. Depending on the thickness of your paint you may need two
coats. Be sure to paint the entire egg with even strokes and let dry. I then
used a nickel size of brown acrylic
paint in my paint tray mixed with just a drop or two of water mixed together to
make my brown paint a bit runny. Next I took my small craft paint brush and
dipped it in the brown paint and used my thumb to flick the bristles of the
brush to splatter paint onto the eggs over my kitchen sink to get the speckled
effect. I let them dry then placed them
inside my nest inside the jar.
Outside of the fact that the Robin's that would have laid
these eggs would be a freakishly large species due to the size of my wooden
eggs... the nest and eggs look very convincing and springy. Now, what to do
with my other two jars?
Laus Deo,
Paula Schnoor-Comes
Voila! The finished product. I just love Easter!
