{"id":514,"date":"2008-03-11T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T11:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2008-03-10T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T18:58:01","slug":"egg-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Egg-or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Easter Bunny is going to be hopping along the bunny trail a couple of weeks from now, and you know what that means?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, rabbit stew.  But what else?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right!  Monster eggs!  The Shadowfamilia has a long tradition of spooking up our Easter eggs, which is fun and makes the relatives nervous.  Come&#8230;join us!<\/p>\n<p>You will need:<UL><LI>Wax crayons; the color doesn&#8217;t really matter since you&#8217;ll be wiping it off anyway.  A color that contrasts with the egg color is nice, since then you can see what you&#8217;re drawing.<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Paper towels or old rags<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Egg dyes<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Slotted spoon or coathanger bent in a loop<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Cooking oil (optional)<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Hard-boiled eggs (duh)<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n<p>Use the crayon to draw a pattern on an egg, making sure that the lines are nice and heavy.  We like to draw Frankenstein stitching, vampire fangs, or ghoulish faces; think pumpkin carving, only smaller and eggier.<\/p>\n<p>Put egg in dye and let sit for a while.  It&#8217;s preferable to use a dark color for this step, since you&#8217;ll be dipping the egg in another color later.<\/p>\n<p>Remove with slotted spoon, pat dry, and place in a 200F oven for a few minutes until the wax is melted.<\/p>\n<p>Wipe off the wax and dip into a lighter color of dye to fill in the pattern where the wax was.  Fish out and pat dry.<\/p>\n<p>If desired, use cooking oil to polish up the finished eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Green eggs with yellow stitching, black eggs with white fangs, yellow zombie eggs, red eggs with horns (those would be deviled eggs)&#8230;the possibilities are legion.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you could use the same method to draw pretty flowers and butterflies, but why would you?<\/p>\n<p>Ooh!  Doing a search on &#8220;scary Easter egg&#8221; turned up <a href=\"http:\/\/glitterpissing.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/easterween.html\">these<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/bewitching-halloween-eggs\">these<\/a>.  How adorable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Easter Bunny is going to be hopping along the bunny trail a couple of weeks from now, and you know what that means? Yeah, rabbit stew. But what else? That&#8217;s right! Monster eggs! The Shadowfamilia has a long tradition of spooking up our Easter eggs, which is fun and makes the relatives nervous. Come&#8230;join [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}