I told you another milk-painted egg post was on the way and here it is, just in the nick of time before Easter.  This idea came about because I bought a bunch of real eggs to paint, but then I found the paper eggs and those were going to be even better for my original plan.  So, I was left with a bunch of cheap white eggs.  I will insert here that I eat eggs for breakfast almost every day.  Big egg fan.  But, I’m picky about my eggs and like ones that are free-range and organic with rich yellow/orange yolks.  They just taste so much better!  These were just run-of-the-mill, pale-yolked eggs that don’t have a lot of flavor.  I wanted to find another use for them. So, I made these speckled milk-painted eggs, but I used quail and robin’s eggs as inspiration. This speckled milk-painted egg project was

After making the Pysanky eggs last week, I thought it would be fun to break out the MMS Milk Paint and make some more eggs!  I selected a color palette of Mustard Seed Yellow, a custom green (2 parts Boxwood + 1 1/2 parts Lucketts Green), a custom pale blue (2 parts Eulalie’s Sky + 1 part Linen), and Artissimo. I found at Target and knew they would be perfect for milk paint.  I was planning on just painting some small papier mâché eggs, but these were even better.  They are larger, about the size of duck eggs, and the fact that they open up makes them easier to paint and they can actually be filled!     No prep work was required.  I just painted on one coat of each color.  I painted the white eggs in the lighter colors and the craft eggs in the darker colors. The