Friday Egg

I really enjoyed making the Friday Egg today!  I used blue as the background color which I haven't done in a long time and it made for a completely different feeling. Sometimes I feel that the blue isn't deep or dark enough to set off the bright colors, but combined with the golden yellow, reds and green, it makes for a circus-y feeling egg.

Following the theme of using traditional designs in non-traditional ways, the eight-pointed stars/roses float around the egg, accented with small flowers and leaves.  I enjoyed the opportunity to experiment with different patterns within the roses themselves.  Normally, I try to match any sets because I like the balance of a traditional egg, but since this didn't have to be balanced (at least in the traditional sense) I could have a bit of fun.  I started with the Pysanky Showcase Golden Brown, then went back down to white and back up again. I will be trying this one again with different patterns and color schemes.

Thanks for looking!  Have a great weekend.

This is my future...

At least I hope this is my future! I now officially need an iphone solely so I can have this app for processing credit cards: Square

There's no merchant fee or contract just 2.9% of sales.  And the processor itself is a beauty: looks like about an inch square that plugs into the audio jack of your iphone.  Never more would I be embarrassed about dragging out my gigantic machine with (shudder) the carbon copy triplicate receipts that look so 1982.

Want.