Flurries

Last summer I found a local source of fresh goose eggs, and not the kind that are only slightly bigger than chicken eggs.  These are the really big goose eggs, with a volume of three really large chicken eggs.

I've been trying to use them up.  I haven't worked with goose eggs since, I think, the 1980s, so it's taken a bit of getting used to.  I've made a variety of eggs for various holidays, including a goose eggs pysanka for my father's birthday, and a frog-themed egg for my sister-in-law's.

For the winter holidays I decided to place snowflakes–as many as would fit–onto these eggs, and see how they would turn out.  I drew various sized circles (in pencil) on the eggs, and then drew dividing lines (for six-fold symmetry).  I then doodled in, with wax, all sorts of snowflakes.  It was hard not to repeat myself, and to keep adjoining ones dissimilar, but I succeeded.  I ended up crating three, the first (and the prototype with all the mistakes) for me, and the other two as gifts.  This is what they looked like:

You can see more views of these eggs here.  To learn how to make snowflake eggs, go here.