Painted eggs, can't wait~

[yuuago]

Today is not off to a good start. I woke up, then immediately fell back asleep. I missed my bus, so I had to take the late bus, and as a result of that I was late for class. At least I had a proper breakfast, though.

I have to meet with Fagan tomorrow, and I'm a bit nervous about it, but I'm sure it will be fine. Argh, this semester has been so frustrating!

Hmm-mm. I need to pick up some large eggs. For the past four years, I haven't been able to do Easter eggs, but this year, I'm going to do it. Not only that - I'm going to do them up in the proper painted Ukrainian style. Back home we just did them the lazy way. Hard boil 'em, then decorate with crayon and food colouring. We'd end up eating egg salad sandwiches for days. I've always wanted to actually paint eggs, so here we are.

Way back when, my gran had an empty pysanka that she kept out all the time as decoration. I was always told, don't touch it. Well, one day I touched it. I had no idea it was a real egg - I guess I thought it was glass or something - and I held it too tight and it broke. I still feel so guilty about that.

Anyway, point is, I'm going to do up my eggs right and proper, for the first time ever. Very exciting! Yes. I don't think I'll do the whole batik thing, because that seems a bit too complicated for someone like me who doesn't know what they're doing. Saa, trying new things goes in stages, right? Maybe next year I'll try actually writing pysanky, but for now, no.

Hmm-mm, I might not have time enough to do it in time for Western Easter, but by the time Eastern Easter rolls around surely I'll have time to do it. Can't waiiiiiiit. Need to find my tiny brushes, oh yes!

You know, this entire entry was going to be whining, but after talking about the eggs, I'm much too happy to whine. Hah! Excellent!

Comments

[fabledquill.livejournal.com]

oooooooooh, Ukrainian eggs!
I've always wanted to do those, but we can't have eggs in the house because my sister's allergic. :c
Take pictures, though~

[yuuago]

D: Awe, sucks- Well, I promise I'll get pictures, yes indeed!
I am so ridiculously excited about doing this xD

[fabledquill.livejournal.com]

XD don't you love that crafty-glee?

[yuuago]

I do!
And also, BAKING-GLEE. Because of course, with all these hollowed-out egg shells, what'm I going to do with all the egg? Make DELICIOUS SWEET THINGS of course!

[fabledquill.livejournal.com]

YESSSSSSSSS
auauaugh, I've had no time to do any cooking because of stupid AP testing. DX
I should probably be studying now.......

[kittencuffs.livejournal.com]

"Way back when, my gran had an empty pysanka that she kept out all the time as decoration. I was always told, don't touch it. Well, one day I touched it. I had no idea it was a real egg - I guess I thought it was glass or something - and I held it too tight and it broke."

DDDDDDD:!!!!!!

[yuuago]

D: Yeah. One of the worst moments of my life, swear to go.

[kittencuffs.livejournal.com]

My grandparents had two of them. Well, I guess they technically weren't pysankas, but they were blown eggs that were hand-painted. They were Japanese-themed, with peacocks and cherry blossoms. I wasn't supposed to touch them either, but of course I did.

I dropped one, and it cracked and dented. :/ Fortunately, I dropped the one that was painted all the way around and they keep them on a shelf on the wall, so they just keep the cracked side facing the wall.

[yuuago]

D: Wagh. I imagine there are many tales of woe in the world relating around kids breaking lovely pysanky.

[radittz.livejournal.com]

aww pisanki!! I love this tradition <3 and preparing whole Easter basket(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Awi%C4%99conka) is so much fun :D I didn't know that you come from Ukraine, it looks like we have very simmiliat traditions in Poland. I wonder what you use for painting eggs - paint, ink, onion, something different? :)

[yuuago]

Ahaha, no- I am not from Ukraine; I am Canadian. However like many people in this part of Canada, my family came from there.

I was reading things about the pysanky today, and it does seem very similar, which was something I didn't know before. Here, people say things about "Ukrainian eggs" all the time, but really they just mean it in a general sense - eggs decorated in that fancy way.

When I was living at home with my parents, we did the decorating the easy (lazy) Canadian way: hard-boiling the eggs first, then drawing designs on them with crayon, then dying them using food-dye mixed with vinegar.

This year, I am going to try to do it closer to the traditional way. I have never done it before, so I am still reading the many ways to do it and figuring out how everything works. Paint looks as if it will be easiest for me this time. Perhaps next year I will do something more complicated~

[radittz.livejournal.com]

hah, so "Canadian way" is exactly the same as most common in Poland(I prefer to boil eggs in water with onion skin to make them brown) :D I remember that when I was in elementary school I used to make pisanki during painting lessons, it was the bast part of Easter(with chocolate bunnies, sugar lambs and my mom's cakes). ah, I love Easter - there is so many special dishes to eat.
Oh, I forgot about Śmigus-dyngus event(all young people here doing it, of course me too) XD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday it's so stupid but I love it. I wont describe it with my poor English so I'll use text from Wikipedia:
"Most recently, the tradition has changed to become fully water-focused, and the Śmigus part is almost forgotten. It is quite common for girls to attack boys just as fiercely as the boys traditionally attacked the girls. With much of Poland's population residing in tall apartment buildings, high balconies are favorite hiding places for young people who gleefully empty full buckets of water onto randomly selected passers-by."
why I see Hetalia Poland as a water-terrorist? xD ...maybe becouse of water pistols in strip with Lithuania's scars ;;;

[yuuago]

Onion skin, eh? I think I might have to try that - now that I think of it, I was reading something about it earlier today, and had forgotten.
Aside from the eggs, in my family we don't really do much special for Easter; just eggs and lots of chocolate. I do like it very much though - not as much because of how we celebrate it, but because it marks a change outside. The Equinox comes and goes, and we complain about it endlessly because the world still looks like it is winter. But finally, when Easter is here, it is bright outside, and the snow is gone (er, mostly).

Water terrorism = omgwhat. xD That is so crazy, I've never heard of it before! It sounds like lots of silly fun (but very damp). Feliks would so be a water-terrorist, yes! He's a sneaky little one, I think.

[radittz.livejournal.com]

aww that's a bit sad. I think that traditions make these days more "special". You should try this cake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babka - it's very popular in Poland and Ukraine :)
"old Polish tardition" is a great excuse to make everyone wet :P
uh weather... week ago I had a trip to Lithuania and there was a lot of snow everywhere - it felt like middle of January XD; Of course when I came back to Warsaw it started to be much warmer in this part of Europe. Now it's quite nice but I feel angry becouse weather spoiled my visit in Vilnius - it's hard to make good photos during snow storm, you know >>

[yuuago]

Oh my god that cake looks so delicious! I just found a recipe for it - I think I will try it after my school semester is over. I loooove cooking and baking so much, and I like trying to make new things. That is one thing that has happened because I started talking to so many new people recently; they mention something I have never heard of, and then of course I must try to make it because such things cannot be found here.

Agh, taking photos in a snow storm isn't fun. I've tried. ;) It just ends up all white! But ahhh, it must have been cool to go there, right? Travelling, seeing different places - The thought is so exciting to me!

I've never visited another country. Travelling is so difficult and so expensive that it will be a very long time before I can go anywhere in my own country or overseas. Of course, Canada is so big that going to another province is, for distance, as if a person is crossing two or three medium-sized European countries - but ahhh, it is just not the same at all!

[radittz.livejournal.com]

Babka isn't very difficult cake - and it tastes great with tea ;) ahaha, I love baking too so I'm always first to preparing holiday cakes like cheesecake with almonds or mazurek - http://www.gotowanie.wkl.pl/g/kamis/nadeslane/nutella2d.jpg (dacorating this one is always so much fun XD).
Canada is second largest country so I can imagine that you have a lot of interesting places inside your borders :D but's it's true that living in the middle of Europe gives great opportunities to visiting other countries(esp in European Union), before Hetalia I was to shy to talk with foreign people well(language blockade) but now I have many great friends in different places, so this summer I'm invited to France, Germany and I hope to visit Lithuania again and then with my friend visit Latvia and Estonia. Of course all those people will visit my home in Warsaw too. I think that this is the best part of this fandom - most of people are interested in other cultures so you have a lot of stuff to talk about and you can meet interesting places with their help. :D
Lithuania was easy target becouse Vilnius is only 550 km from my place and it wasn't very "exotic" - simmiliar food, culture etc The best part of my trip was seeing Hill of Crosses and old castles but of course I couldn't take many photos becouse of snow.