Cockatiel Eggs: My friend Pam Espinoza gave me some eggs that her cockatiel had laid.  The eggs are quite small and fragile; these are the pysanky I created with them.

Faux Sgraffito: Multicolored scratchwork-like eggs, first written by pysankarka Iryna Vakh.  Quite lovely.

Chick Eggs: A collection of special personalized pysanky I made for my various nieces and nephews in 2006.  They feature a hatching chick as the central motif.

Penguin Eggs:  These are not eggs laid by penguins, but eggs written to look like penguins.  Penguins are somewhat egg-shaped, so making these eggs didn’t take a huge stretch of the imagination.

Frog Eggs: A pair of very special frog-themed pysanky I made for my sister-in-law and her mother. Actual frog eggs would be problematic to work with, as they are quite sticky......

Maple Leaves: These eggs were inspired by the colorful leaves of a midwestern autumn.  I first made these in 2008, using red maple leaf motifs, and have created new versions each year since.

Autumn Leaves: This set of pysanky was an attempt to capture, on a goose egg, the glorious leaves of a Michigan autumn.  The eggs include beech, ash, maple and oak leaf motifs on a variety of backgrounds. 

Pumpkin Eggs: I was first inspired to create these tiny jack-o-lanterns for Halloween of 2005, and have made them several times since. Small chicken eggs make fine faux pumpkins. I have added instructions and moved them to their own section, here.

Halloween Eggs: Inspired by a Martha Stewart article, these are my scary Halloween designs––skeletons, ghosts, owls and spiders.

Christmas Eggs:  Some nontraditional pysanky with traditional western Christmas motifs (poinsettias, bells, stockings, snowmen) make nice ornaments for a lovely Christmas tree.

Snowflake Eggs: I’ve been creating these small pysanky for years.  Like snowflakes, each one is unique.  I have moved my snowflake pages here.