Easter Bunny Egg Decorations

I wasn't sure if these hanging eggs would work, as the idea was soooooo well out of my crafting comfort zone, but, you know, I think they did. However, I have to apologise here, because taking pictures of them was a nightmare as they rolled everywhere.

They started out as a bit of an experiment, just to see if a new mould I got from Temu (£1.87) would turn out as detailed as I hoped it might be ........

I used Cayola Model Magic to create the rabbits  and yes, I was pretty pleased with the results, but left them for a couple of days as I didn't really know what to do with them at that stage. 

Then, I remembered the huge bag of plain, plastic, eggs decorations I got for £1 from Bilston Market a while back, from a trader who must have bought pallets of out of season stuff from Amazon. When I looked them up, they should have cost £7.99.

I glued a rabbit to each of three eggs, using As Hard As Nails to ensure a secure fix and then added some spare beading trim left over from another project over the join. It looked ok, but I gave the eggs a day or two to dry out a little more.

Painting was a little more problematic because, obviously, the eggs had a tendency to roll, as well as taking 3 to 4 coats of emulsion paint to cover the eggs to a sufficient depth of colour ......

...... but, I got there in the end..

However, I wanted to age them and give the impression that they were made of some sort of ceramic/pottery, so I dry brushed them with a tiny amount of white paint and they looked OK, but not quite as "aged" as I hoped ........

..... so, with baited breath, I decided to wax them ........

..... using an ancient pallet of rubbing wax that I've had forever and my finger .......

...... terrified that this final step would ruin them .........

...... but no,  woo hoo hoo, I was thrilled with the results ......

..... achieving the look I'd really hoped for, that certainly doesn't belie their true, very plastic origins until you actually pick them up!