I have recently been having a lot of fun experimenting with brown eggs for pysanky. I love the earthy quality of the dyes on the brown eggs. Here are a few:
Remade this pysanka by my Mom. Left- Mom’s pysanka circa approx. 1980. Right- mine, 2013.
This photo shows a brown egg pysanka in some of the final steps- at the final stage with all the wax on, and then with the wax removed. All left to do is to varnish and blow out the egg. 
Since I have just moved half way down the east coast, I haven’t made too many new pysanky this Spring. I did have a chance, however, to enjoy a krashanka, which is a traditional Easter egg, hard-boiled, dyed one color. This differs a lot from pysanky, which are made on raw eggs and not eaten.
Orthodox Easter this year was on May 5
These pysanky served both as merch and fodder for a poster for the Wilhelm Brothers’ show at the Ukrainian Club in Philadelphia, PA!
Thank you to everyone who came out to my pysanky demo at the library! You were a lovely audience and asked such great questions! Special thanks to the Roslindale branch of the Boston Public Library for hosting my demo and exhibit for December and January!
The First Church in JP craft fair was a lot of fun- here is a closeup of my pysanky eggs, pysanky snowflake ornaments on a wire sculpture which my Mother made, and my lamps.
Please join me at the First Church in Jamaica Plain for their 15th Annual Holiday Craft Fair! I will be in the sanctuary. Sat. Dec. 1 from 11-5pm.
I will also be at the UForge/Eliot Hall Holiday Fine Art and Craft Fair on Dec. 22 from 11-6pm.
Exciting news- I will be the featured artist at the Roslindale Public Library from Dec. 8 until the end of January, and will be giving a pysanky demo in January!
Here is my latest batch of pysanky:
In Ukrainian folklore, the number 48, and any number in the forties, for that matter, is considered magical. This pysanka features 48 triangles, half with nets and half with flowers. My friend Emily called the other day and said she needed an egg in a couple of days. It was very exciting to have an urgent egg order. Emily is very happy with her egg. 
Pysanky Workshop at Artstream Studios 2011
Its that time of year again! I will be teaching the following beginners’ pysanky workshops:
Saturday, February 25 at Artstream Studios in Rochester, NH 1:30-4:30pm
Tuesday, March 6 at Sarida in Roslindale, MA from 6:30-9:30pm sign up here
Saturday, March 31 at Artstream Studios in Rochester, NH 1:30-4:30pm
Please contact me for more information about these workshops, or if you would like to schedule a workshop in your area, at your home, business, school or church- andrea [at] happyfunlamp dot com
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