The egg is the symbol of fertility
and rebirth of the earth in springtime.
With Easter just a week away and spring in the air, I decided a little eggstravaganza was appropriate for today. You can click on the mosaic to enlarge to see the details of these hand painted eggs. Many years ago my mother started me off on the road to this collection of hand decorated eggs that I bring out each Easter season. For many years, my mother would give her children and grandchildren one of these china eggs each Easter that one of her friends had hand painted. Then as I saw other hand painted eggs that caught my attention I would add to my little nest. Each of the eggs in the individual egg stands were painted by a local artist in the 1990s.
I'm linking to Pink Saturday with Beverly @ How Sweet the Sound , A Few of My Favorite Things with Laurie @ Bargain Hunting and Chatting with Laurie, Mosaic Monday @ Little Red House, and Three or More Tuesday @ The Gypsy Corner.
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Your painted eggs are beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteOh, those eggs are gorgeous! What a beautiful collection!
ReplyDeleteOh, those are absolutely gorgeous. Now that's a great collection.
ReplyDeleteYou have got a beautiful collection of precious eggs, Sarah. I love this idea and I think I might start this tradition with my children. Thank you for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes for a beautiful week,
Natasha, Stacey and Holly!
You have the most amazing collection of eggs! I have never seen so many beautiful ones. Great tradition!
ReplyDeleteHappy Pink Saturday Sarah.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful Easter eggs.
Lovely collage and post.
Such delightful painted eggs.
ReplyDeleteIs that my blue & white rabbit I see in the background?
Wait, no mine's sitting on the mantlepiece in the library, that must be his brother in your pix.
Have a wonderful weekend.
~Maggie~
How beautiful those eggs are. never seen anything like it.Happy pink Saturday
ReplyDeleteyour eggs look like fine jewels. Stunning~!
ReplyDeleteHappy Saturday
Sonny
These are beautiful! What an amazing collection! Thank you Sarah, for your sweet comment on the smocked dresses I adore -- however, I do want to let you know that I only hunted them down -- I didn't smock them myself - so I deserve no credit for that -- only mutual enjoyment and admiration of someone's talent.
ReplyDeleteThey're all very beautiful, Sarah! I don't own a single egg cup but I'm going to remedy that situation soon. I'm goin' shoppin'!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a pretty collection and mosaic. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWow Sarah!!!
ReplyDeleteI am envious of your beautiful egg collection! They are so lovely and so are the beautiful cups!
Cindy
Your egg collection is beautiful. I've loved decorated eggs ever since I learned to do Pysanky eggs.
ReplyDeleteHappy Pink Sat.
Blessings,
Tricia
Sarah, those eggs are beautiful! Each is a little work of art. Such a special collection, and what pretty egg cups too. Thank you so much for linking to Favorite Things with this beautiful post. laurie
ReplyDeleteThey are exquisite, Sarah! a Blessed Easter to you!
ReplyDeleteNice! Love collages!
ReplyDeleteHappy PS!
In Shoes We Trust.
Maggie Mae
"Do these shoes match this purse?"
What a gorgeous collection. I have quite a few hand painted eggs, but nothing in comparison. I think the gold on the ones in the individual stands is what makes them so eggceptional - LOL!
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I've never seen such an amazing collection, just gorgeous!
ReplyDeletehugs,
Debra
You have a fantastic collection of the painted eggs. I used to have one! Enjoyed seeing yours!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful collection. I knew when I saw that you'd posted that I'd be seeing something lovely - and I was right.
ReplyDeletePerhaps today I'll find time to get some of my Easter things out of the attic.
Sarah, your collection is special. I started egg collections for my children 34 and 32 years ago, but theirs are not hand painted ones. Maybe I should have been more selective. Maybe next year, I'll find just the right eggs.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful egg collection and neat story about how your collection started. I really appreciate the artistic talent that it takes to create such detail on a small canvas like the egg. Treasures...all.
ReplyDeleteWhat stunning Eggs!! Beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteDebbie
What pretty eggs! This is my first Pink Saturday and I'm enjoying hopping around and seeing all the pink pretties! Please stop by my place and see my little Basket Full of Sunshine! until later...
ReplyDeleteWhat a magnificent collection! Isn't it wonderful to pull out cherished holiday decorations? And I'm sure your eggs are extra special because of the memories attached to them. Have a beautiful easter...Nancy
ReplyDeleteGood Morning Sarah and HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!!
ReplyDeleteA great collection indeed! You have so many beautiful things! Thank you for sharing them with us.
Have a great week.
Oh Sarah,Your egg collection is Beautiful...And I love that your Mother started it for you...I started a NutCracker collection many years ago..All my girls would laugh and talk about how ugly they were...As the collection grew... all of a sudden they had to have one....So now...as of Next Christmas Two of my four girls will have Nutcracker collections...and my sixteen year old talks about how one day she gets all of my collection...to funny... Sarah I have the little Bird on the leaf dish...and if you would agree...I would love to send it to you as one of my three pay it forwards...I am working on a post to share my story and as part of that I need to share the pay-it-forward and thank a few bloggers for awards...I have been working on the post for awhile...but when you are about to share something like this, for me...I need it to just right...
ReplyDeleteSo please let me send this to you ...and then you can send it to your friend and we both are paying-it-forward...Let me know
xoxo
Julie
Such gorgeous Easter eggs! I love your mosaic for Pink Saturday! Thank you for visiting and commenting on my blog! =)
ReplyDeleteEggspecial collage!
ReplyDeleteJoyce M
What a BEAUTIFUL Pink Saturday eggstravganza ;-)
ReplyDeleteHugs and blessings,
What a beautiful collection! It makes me wish I had started one... at this point, I think my husband would shoot me if I collected one more thing :-) I love that your mother started you collecting & that you have added to your nest!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful collection!!! Thanks for stopping by my blog and the welcome to Pink Saturday.
ReplyDeleteYour egg collection is stunning! So much work went into the painting of each egg and the detail is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing them.
Sarah, just as I see one of the eggs that I think is my favorite, I see another I love as much! :-) You have a fabulous collection there, and how neat that your mother started you on this.
ReplyDeleteMy current favorite egg is the one in the bottom right corner. Lovely!
My MIL has given us some neat eggs over the years, too, and I love them so much. Easter is probably my favorite holiday next to Christmas. It's a toss up.
If you get a chance, please email me. I have something I want to ask you. I would email you, but I am unable to email with my computer because the "geeks" didn't install a default email thingy where I can click and email.
XO,
Sheila :-)
Love the eggstravaganza! Hope you visit my pink too!
ReplyDeletevalrie
Those are just beautiful and so festive! Nice collection you have.
ReplyDeleteI love it! What a great tradition your mother started. Hope you continue it.
ReplyDeleteHi, Happy Mosaic Monday! Very lovely mosaic picture! I hope that you have a wonderful new week and a very Happy Easter!
ReplyDeleteHugs...
Bobbi
What a beautiful egg collection. Love your egg cups just as much!
ReplyDeleteSarah your egg mosaic is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLove your eggstravagansa -- what a beautiful collection! Thanks so much for sharing at MM. Have a joyous Easter season! :)
ReplyDeleteLovely! I am very interested to go back to your journal post and read it carefully. I'm particularly intrigued by random journaling. I think it might work for me.
ReplyDeleteBest,
Bonnie
Happy Easter! A collection of lovely keepsakes and they look so good in a basket on display. They could be left out all year. Joan
ReplyDeleteThe detail on your hand painted eggs is wonderful - what treasures!
ReplyDeleteAmanda
Not only are the eggs so pretty but I like all the detail on the little egg stands/cups. Happy Easter.
ReplyDeleteJoyce
Putting out such gorgeous eggs each year would bring me joy. These are really treasures. Hope you'll drop by and see our fantasy bath. -- Jane F.
ReplyDeletegorgeous collection.
ReplyDeleteHi, Sarah, you have won the giveaway for the treble clef. Please email your address and any special mailing instructions. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteOh! I love your mosiac of these gorgeous eggs!
ReplyDeleteBlessings & Aloha!
(thank you for stopping by! I have been out of town so am just now catching up on blog reading -will be going to your "J" post next! Yay for a mid week day off! have to catch up on housecleaning too...)