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Show By Janet Wallis Let's color Easter eggs SLriay is Easter. That means it's jj coloring time. And I thought you lit enjoy some new ideas for that ice:t Easter ritual. So I am referring you to an Egg r1. Meet Jessie Schoenfeld, for-of for-of Vernal, now of West Jordan. collects eggs. .'essie also collects ideas for Mating eggs and at Eastertime t arranges her interesting "egg" is throughout her home. Th unusual hobby began while ss:e was touring Europe several ago. In Florence. Italy she jrchased some marble eggs as xmrlrs for her family and friends. They were delighted with the eggs :i in return began sending souvenir ;p to Jessie. She has an onyx egg a Mexico and many marble eggs :a Europe. i May of Jessie's ideas for decorating 3 come from magazines and she is Ksys adding new ones. psre are some of Jessie's newest ays with eggs. Tn sure you'll have fun with them. 'For truly unique eggs try these fcijaster, onyx or onion eggs," says sse. "To make them, wrap dry onion around fresh eggs. Wrap thread focd the skins to keep the skins tight i the egg. Boil the eggs as you w ould J hard boiled eggs. When done, un-rp un-rp the thread and the skins. Cool and rf Then polish with a few drops of tr.g oil. Just nib it on the eggs with fcr hands." A results of beautiful alabaster to display in a gold colored glass ! for Easter. Another fun decorating idea of es, which includes her whole is making animals out of hard oiled eggs. She colors the eggs in the Nal way and then, with the help of ored construction paper and a little toer's glue, she and her f amilv create ''m:m '' 1 y J' - ; 1. pink egg. and a chicken from a yellow-egg yellow-egg "We've even made a green frog egg." laughs Jessie. "My family really has fun with this idea and it is a way-children way-children can use their imagination." These animal eggs look bright and cheery arranged in a nest of pink plastic straw. Another of Jessie's "eggv" ideas is Wedgwood eggs. These are made by-putting by-putting a hole in each end of an egg and by blowing the insides out. Spray paint the eggs Wedgwood blue. Then decorate them in Wedgwood type designs using small while round sticky lables. These can be cut in half or quartered and grouped together to make very interesting patterns. "Wedgwood eggs are lovely-displayed lovely-displayed in a milk glass basket." Jessie says. Jessie also fills a small natural straw-basket straw-basket with tiny brown eggs that bantv hens. They have blown them out so that they can be kept and arranged year after year. "L'eggs" eggs (the nylon hose containers) can also be covered with calico and trimmed with rick rack, ribbon and lace to made adorable eggs which can hold little surprises for children. "Sometimes the Easter bunny puts candy, sox of little barretts inside," Jessie told me, "and the children look forward to that." "Eggs make an interesting collection Decause tneir meaning anu syniuuiism is so universal," Jessie said. "They can be made so many ways and with so many different materials." I think you'll agree, Jessie's collection of eggs is unique and can have endless variety. bluebird out of a blue egg, a tiger cat an orange egg, a bunny from a |