Yes, folks, we’re starting glittering, and we’re starting with… eggs? What is going on with all the decorative eggs Martha must have?
As I mentioned before, I don’t love glittering. It seems a little low-brow to me, too gaudy. But, true to my Martha Challenge, I bought this sucker:
Twenty four little jars of glitter. How can you have just one?
So, blown out eggs, yadda yadda, cover them with glitter. Woot!
This is one wooden egg and one blown out egg.
A few notes here. First, I bought Martha’s “glittering glue,” since I think it was on sale and I figured, why not? It comes with it’s own brush attached to the lid, which is perfect since then I don’t have to wash a brush after I use it.
D’oh! Might want to rethink the quality of that brush applicator there. As you can see, it broke off immediately, was a mess and totally useless. * Le Sigh*.
Also, the Encyclopedia tells you to put your glitter in a bowl, set the egg in it and then use a spoon to “spoon” the glitter over the egg. Do you know how much glitter it would require to have a bowl of it big enough to accomplish this? You’d need at least three of those little vials that I bought. So I simply sprinkled the glitter over the eggs, which seemed to work fine.
Incidentally, the glitters I used were “Periodot” and “Purple Sapphire.” Of course they were.
TIME INVESTED
About 15 minutes to blow out one egg, plus about 15 minutes to glitter.
About 30 minutes
DIFFICULTY
Super easy
TOTAL COST
- one egg, $0.33
- wooden egg, $0.99
- glitter pack, $29.99 (or significantly cheaper if you buy it at Michaels with the 40% off coupon)*
- glittering glue, $3.99
Total cost = $44.30
* You can also buy the glitter separately. Each container (slightly bigger than the vials) is $4.99. So really, with a coupon, it’s a much better value to get the 24 pack so you can have lots of different colors. Unless you are planning on glittering something enormous.
WAS IT WORTH IT?
I don’t even know what I’m going to do with my gilded eggs, let alone these glittered monstrosities. No. WAY.
I’m digging the disco eggs, but I can’t think of what to do with them. They’d be too fragile for Christmas tree decorations, and that glitter would probably shed after a while. But come Easter, you could have one splashy centerpiece if you put the glitter eggs, gilded eggs and dyed eggs in your fab new gilded bowl.