For my first ever craft on this blog, I am going to show you how to make an eggshell mosaic vase. Even though it has such simple "ingredients" it looks very elegant when you're finished.
You will need:
A clean, dry, maple syrup jar, Sharpies in desired colors, a smallish bowl of clean, dry, eggshells, a paintbrush, modge podge, and a pencil (which is optional, and which I forgot to show).
To start with, color your eggshells with your Sharpies. You can make designs like swirls or polka dots, but I just chose plain color.
Then, crush the eggshells into pieces, and put them into separate colored piles.
This is the optional part: draw your design with a pencil. Of course, if you were simply covering the jar in eggshells, you wouldn't need to draw where every piece goes, as that could contine for hours, and everybody likes quicker crafts. Sooo....
...Start putting your eggshells on! You use the modge podge as a glue first, and then... well you'll see.
Continue. Keep going. There! You're ready for the background. What I did was to use the leftover colors and pieces to make a colorful background. If you're covering the whole jar, you may need to crack, clean, and color another egg. Or two or three.
Now that you've covered the whole jar in eggshells, we get to use the modge podge as a finish.(I told you we would use it for something else!) Spread a layer of modge podge over the entire vase. And if it isn't shiny enogh to your taste, put another layer on.
Now for the finishing touch. Outline your design with a black Sharpie. I know it looks like I drew with Sharpie over top of the modge podge, but I didn't. I think this is the second layer or something. In other words, please don't do it, it will probably smudge. Wa-la!
