After the Christmas tree and Valentine I made from jewelry I inherited from various family members, I still had lots of less blingy, more colorful beads and plastic earrings left over. I don't eat hard-boiled eggs, yet I still have a desire to celebrate spring by decorating eggs in my own way. Using the colorful beads to make an Easter egg just seemed obvious since I had already hopped on to the holiday theme.
Most of the beads and earrings in this craft belonged to my mom, but there are a couple of strands of broken rosaries in there, too, that likely belonged to my uncle or brother. The 8x10 white shadowbox frame came from Michael's, as did the purple felt I used for the background. For further instruction about how I did this, see the directions at the end of my Junk Jewelry Christmas Tree blogpost. For other designs, click the "Crafty" label in the righthand column of this blog.
The bunnies and eggs so prevalent in springtime are symbols of fertility and rebirth. Though I can't resurrect the relatives who instilled in me a love of holiday traditions, at least I can help breathe new life into the trinkets they left behind.
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