Just a Girl with Simple Thoughts: Pysanky Eggs

My aunt is an elementary teacher and wanted to give each of her students a Pysanky Egg- or what my family calls "Stanky Eggs" (not to get confused with the 'Stanky Leg':) ). My sisters and I wanted to learn, plus my aunt needed help getting a lot done, so she taught us how to do them. I told my friend about them and she wanted to kind of learn the process so here ya go.

First you draw the design that you want on your egg (sorry the pictures aren't high quality)

Then whatever part of your design you want to stay white, you draw over with wax. You can see the tool you use in the background to draw on the egg. On one end of that black dagger-lookin thing (it kind of acts as a funnel) you put wax in, then you stick it next to a candle flame and the wax melts out the other end and then you are ready to draw on the egg while the wax is still liquid.

Once you have all the white designs you want you can dip it in the next lighter color you want. I chose orange for this particular egg. Then once it is dipped, you start drawing on the egg with wax again on the parts you want to stay orange (the point of the wax is to cover the egg for when you dip it in a different color)

Once you have covered the egg with wax on what you want to stay that color, you dip it again, etc. By the end it starts lookin pretty nasty and black.

Once you have dipped to your satisfaction (don't I sound professional? ha ha) you remove the wax by sticking it next to the candle flame, and once it starts to melt you wipe it off with a paper towel until all the wax is gone. Then your final design is revealed! Ta DAH!!! (This one originally had blue designs planned, but some kind of chemical reaction made that color turn like a tarnished brown, so some of my design was covered with purple to try and salvage it, but it still turned out ok for a beginnner egg)