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MALACHI: "Oh look, Mutzli! A whole basket of pretty chocolate Easter Eggs in a basket, just for me!"

MUTZLI: "And I received a large foil wrapped Easter Egg! I'm so lucky!"

MALACHI: "Oh I do love Easter, Mutzli! I think it's my favourite time of the year!"

MUTZLI: "Even more than Christmas, Malachi?"

MALACHI: "Well..." *Considers.* "Maybe as much as Christmas!"

MUTZLI: "Happy Easter everyone!"

MALACHI: "And happy Easter everybear!"

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 19th of April is “free theme”, where any photo is admissible. It was suggested that if I have a photo somewhere in your photostream or archive that you would love to showcase, then this is the perfect time to do so! I have hundreds of photographs that have never seen the light of day, and I could have used any number of them, but as it is Easter, I have decided to stick with the seasonal theme commenced yesterday with the “Looking Close on Friday” theme of “Easter Greetings”. In this case, I have used two of my 1:12 miniature bears, Malachi and his cousin Mutzli who are sitting inside half of the rather charming Russian papier mâché egg I acquired a little while ago from a Russian gift shop in the city, which opens up and is hollow inside, lined with a pretty stencilled pattern. Another little Russian hand painted wooden egg featuring a folk art floral pattern I picked up at the same time can be seen to the right of the egg Malachi and Mutzli are sitting in. The other delicate and fragile Easter eggs that surround them have been painted completely by hand in Turkey in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The eggs all have a solid background over which a stylised pattern of flowers in a William Morris style has been painted. The decorated eggs are then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. The eggs are all painted in Turkey by one family, and then shipped to Australia. The family also make stylish wooden spherical Christmas ornaments with similar Style Liberty design. I hope you like my choice of this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!

Malachi I acquired in mid-March 2020 (and mid Coronavirus) from a wonderful Melbourne stalwart toy shop: Dafel Dolls and Bears, when I went looking for a present for one of my goddaughters. Malachi is designed by Mary and hand-made by Wendy Joy in Australia. He has articulated arms and legs, and an extremely sweet face. Malachi was the name he came with, written by hand on his little tag.

Mutzli was a lovely surprise gift from a dear friend in Britain who kindly slipped him into a parcel of other delightful gifts for me. Like Malachi, he is mohair, has articulated arms and legs, and an extremely sweet face. Mutzli got his name from the tiny gold tag around his neck. He is made by Mutzli, a Swiss bear manufacturer since 1949.

These delicate and fragile real Easter eggs have been painted completely by hand in Turkey in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The eggshells all have a solid background applied to them, over which a stylised pattern of flowers in a William Morris style has been painted. The decorated eggs are then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. These eggs have a small puncture at both the top and the bottom of them, indicating that they were “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile eggshell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The eggs are all painted in Turkey by one family, and then shipped to Australia.

The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 12th of April is “painted/painting eggs”, and I couldn’t think of a better choice to offer up for this week. I have packed them in a nice soft and protective nest of straw to keep them safe and show how fragile these hand painted beauties are. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!

Hand painted Eggs are a Romanian tradition, usually for Easter, and come in a variety of patterns and colours. Taken with a S-M-C Takumar 85mm f/1.8.

A photograph of the colourful Easter Tree artistic installation that is beautifying Devonshire Square Avenue in the City of London during the Easter festivities.
The installation has been conceived and created by the Devonshire Square Team with the aim of raising awareness and funds to support the Honeypot Children Charity, a UK based organisation that has been working since 1996 to enhance the lives of vulnerable children and young carers age 5-12.
The hundreds of eggs that decorate the tree have been hand painted in naive style through a range of painting techniques including water, oil and acrylic painting, along with natural dyes from yellow and red onion skin.
The artistic installation is kindly sponsored by the D&D’s restaurants based in Devonshire Square.
If you wish to donate to the charity, please visit the following webpage: www.honeypot.org.uk/donate-now/
Wishing you all an enjoyable Easter :-)

P.S. I am currently abroad and I have been experiencing connectivity issues therefore I apologies for having being unable to get back to your e-mails/ comments but I will be back online after the Easter holidays:-)) xxxx

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Hand painted eggs

A group of diligent women is working in their spare time throughout the year on it. It is entirely made of about 4000 blown and intricately hand-painted eggs.
It is arranged every second year in a nice place of the old town

The best gift I have ever got for Easter - a handpainted Easter Egg with a globe on it! Made in Austria. My Canadian friends gave me this amazing gift. Yes, I live in Canada, but I am originally from Ukraine, where handpainted eggs are very big thing for an Easter. So, my dear Canadian friends wanted to bring me some Europe for Easter, and they did it perfectly! I actually miss Easter in Europe

Hand-painted wooden eggs.

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Hand-painted wooden eggs.

Blogged about on Leslie Unfinished

Hand-painted wooden eggs.

Blogged about on Leslie Unfinished

Hand-painted wooden eggs.

Blogged about on Leslie Unfinished

good morning, hope your weekend was wonderful :)

While walking the streets of Salzburg we stumbled upon several stores that specialized in hand-painted eggs. It was just crazy. I've never seen so many eggs in my entire life.

I could kick myself for not trying to bring a few back. I was worried they'd be crushed on the long journey home because my suitcase and carry-on were already at capacity.

Each year I hand paint Easter eggs for the children in the family. Hopefully they will be enjoyed for many years to come. They are wooden eggs and are pretty large sized, what I think is referred to as ostrich sized eggs. I sign and date each one and each year another one is added to the children's collection.

I have fun each year making special eggs for the kids for Easter. These are wooded eggs that I hand painted with some pretty flowers.

I love painting easter eggs. These are large sized eggs as you can see from the plate that they are sitting on. I also painted the plate. It was an old silver plated plate that I found at a yard sale.

This was one of my favorite booths, wished I could have taken several of these home with me. Said all this work was hand done, photo doesn't do it justice.

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