March 2, 2008
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Easter Eggs
We drove to the Odenwald today and went to the easter Egg Market in Michelstadt. It was pretty cool!
There are some of these pictures that you really need to look at large as the detail on these handcrafted eggs is wonderful, I made a Easter egg album in my photos.
I needed a whole lot more money to satisfy my urge to own these, so I settled for one measly little egg. But it’s a genuine duck egg as opposed to wood, glass or another material and the lady that carved it is from Utrecht, Holland and the best part it was within reason price wise. Her and her husband were really nice and believe it or not theirs was the first table as you entered the hall. Even though we spent the next three hours going to every table in the hall I didn’t see anything that appealed as much as the very first ones.
The one in the middle top row is a green version of my egg, mine is wine red!
Same table.
This is one of the ones I would have gotten if I had money to throw around. Which I don’t, so no fairytale egg for me.
Another of my faves!
These are enamaled wood. The one on the right is a detail from the stained glass windows in St. Stephens Church in Mainz. The windows were the last thing the artist Marc Chagall made before he died and they are the only stained glass windows in a Catholic church made by a Jewish artist. Mainz isn’t more than 15 mins from where I live and I’ve been in this church and in a word the windows are spectacular! This is a 50 euro egg and I would have bought it as sort of a double souvenir if and there’s that darn word again, IF we had more disposable cash. Believe me this picture doesn’t do it justice, but then pictures rarely do.
Zodiac eggs. That’s Taurus right in front.
There were artists from Romania, Russia, India, Holland and of course Germany. This is such a small sampling of what was in the hall.
I hope you take the time to look at some of the detail on the eggs.
Comments (8)
SO beautiful! Thanks for sharing them! At least you got one… a very pretty one for memories!
How fantastic are they!! It makes me wonder why I can’t make one of those beautful creations.
I’m glad you found one for yourself.
The patterns are so delicate! I can’t imagine the patience it took to create those.
I really enjoyed these!!!
Those are absolutely amazing…
Those are really something.
Wow…I’m not one for little decorative items usually but I totally would have dropped some cash for one of those. They’re incredible!
Those eggs are almost indescribable. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
I’m glad you were able to get one.
Those carved out, lacy looking, zodiac ones are incredible. Yep, I’d be straining my budget to have at least one. But I promise, it wouldn’t be put away in a box…it’d have to be somewhere where I could look at it a lot. Beautiful! Thanks for taking us with you. Ta.
Oh, WOW. Those egg are absolutely gorgeous!