A couple of years ago, just before Easter, I discovered small chicken eggs. I had gone to a shop that sells Amish poultry and eggs, and they were selling them by the dozen. I bought a couple dozen just to play around with, and really liked them.
I found that they were great for making traditional pysanky, like this one
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and this one
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from
Volyn'. Traditional patterns are often fairly simple, and look too sparse on large or extra large chicken eggs.
I also discovered that, except for Easter, the shop didn't carry small eggs. I had to special order them by the case, with 15 dozen eggs to the case. So I had to find more uses for the small eggs.
I found that children like working with them, simply because they are smaller, and easier to decorate. I found that they make really cute Halloween
jack-o-lanterns ![](//photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7631/1083/400/jol.jpg)
and
penguins.
Rockhopper penguin
And I found that they make lovely Christmas ornaments, when decorated with
snowflakes and dyed in jewel or sky blue tones.
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This week, as I was beginning to make my snowflake pysanky, I discovered that my Amish poultry place no longer sells small eggs. What to do? Settle for mediums from Kroger? No. Through the wonder of the internet, I was able to find another place locally that sells small eggs.
So I get to make my snowflake eggs after all.............