My mother-in-love (MIL) came by on New Year’s Day to pick up BBC. In true southern style, she never comes to our home empty-handed. This trip yielded stickers for BBC, cabbage and peas for wealth and good luck this year, and this…
She said she wasn’t sure if I could use them but thought she would bring them just in case. If you can’t tell, they are gigantic eggs… She works with the Forest Service and a friend of hers there bought a grab bag of items at an auction that included these.
They have holes in each end where the contents were blown out. They are, well, weird. Why would someone go to this trouble? I tried to look online to see what kind they could be. Nothing I came up with looked like these. They are bigger than a normal chicken egg but not big enough to be an ostrich egg. The walls are very thick. The label on the box is from California – any ideas?
So here’ s how I decided to use them – what do you think?
Just kidding! I consider myself to be fairly creative but I’m just not THAT creative. This post is just a tad tongue-in-cheek but I’m totally glad that I did it because I did find this sweet little surprise in the bottom of the bucket…that makes it worth it all!
I finally found the perfect place for them…
p.s. If MIL is reading this, I’m flattered that you think I AM that creative. BBC’s curiosity was peaked so they did prove educational (even if I wasn’t smart enough to identify them). And the sand dollar was worth it all! Thanks for always thinking of us!
p.s.s. I bet someone out there has a good idea for how to use these and I’ll feel bad that I’ve tossed them. If you do please let me know by leaving a comment! Heck, even if you don’t leave me a comment anyway just for fun!
January 6, 2009
I’ve seen people blow the egg out of the shell to fill with confetti and decorate for poppers at New years eve and such,, a friend of my sisters used to do this all the time.. but they were just regular size eggs,, not sure about these huge ones. I hate that you tossed them, i’m sure we could;ve helped you figure out something to do with them.
January 6, 2009
Hmmm they even look a little big for goose eggs. I wonder if they are like reptile eggs?
No ideas
January 6, 2009
I think they may be Emu eggs (don’t ask me how I know that!) Back in the early 90′s there was a fad where it was cool to breed these things (thank goodness my parents never got in to that….but a lot of my friends’ parents did). I checked online and I think we may have found a winner…what to do with them?? I don’t know. You could paint them pretty pastel colors and put them in your hurricanes for Easter? Other than that, I probably would have put them in the same place you did! : )
January 6, 2009
Most of the time they do this to decorate the egg and run a ribbon through and make a knot on the bottom and leave ribbon on top to tie. I sure wish I had those eggs toy trashed. I make a egg tree for Easter,
January 6, 2009
lol! and i thought my MIL gave me some weird stuff!! glad you found a place for them.
January 6, 2009
Get them back out of the trash, paint them (monograms?), string a cute ribbon through them (tying a knot on the outside of the egg on both ends to secure) and use them for Easter decorations. You can think of something!
January 11, 2009
oh I wish my MIL would give me something good like blown eggs rather than the random things I get, not that those aren’t random…
I would paint/dye and put in egg cups or on a tree for Easter…