Since I went to a great Halloween party last night, I didn’t feel the need to go out again tonight. Instead, I stayed home and gave out candy (no, not walnuts) to the five groups of kids who showed up at the door. Since I had pretty much given up on trick-or-treaters coming to the door at around 7pm, the kids who did show up each got a crapload of candy (Tootsie rolls, pops, dots, etc) from me.
I had pretty much watched everything I could on our main TiVo while I was waiting for trick-or-treaters, so I got bored & decided to do some stuff in the kitchen. I usually buy eggs in bulk at Costco (five dozen at a time) and will hard-boil a large pot of eggs at one time. When I put the hard-boiled eggs back into the fridge with the other eggs, I usually mark them with a large ‘X’ across the top with a black sharpie.
We decided against carving pumpkins this year (no time), so I thought I’d get my Halloween creative jollies off on the hard-boiled eggs. Kind of a Easter-ish twist on Halloween, or something.
I started off with a couple of simple jack-o-lantern-type faces, but then started drawing other animals and progressed to (somewhat) recognizable cartoon characters. Can you tell who/what I was trying to draw? (Hey, I wasn’t trying to be DaVinci, I was just doodling on eggs…)
Since I had just watched an episode of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends (”Hi” to my friend Craig… not McCracken!), I did a little tribute in hard-boiled egg and sharpie:
I wrapped it up with some tributes to some of my favorite bloggers… the Domokun is inspired by the pictures of Mikey that Joelle posted. And the Lockergnome was inspired by Chris Pirillo himself. (And you thought I wasn’t going to do anything useful with that mousepad I got at Gnomedex 4.)
I don’t know if I’m going to do this every year (I wasn’t planning to stay home and make eggs… it just turned out that way), but this is the kind of thing that happens when I have too much free time on my hands…
Headline of your local newspaper today, November 1, 2004: No Halloween Treats from Joz - Squirrels revolt.
Cool egg art! (And the current dog up on The Dogs of pic… awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!)
Oooh! Hello Kitty egg!I am still in England. More kids are doing Hallowe’en here than back in Indianapolis.
Boiled eggs is definatly something I’ve never seen or heard used before on hollowen.Nice character designs.
Yummy. Eggs. I was going to hand out bottled water to fat kids this year, but in the end I chickened out. Hard Bolied eggs would be a nice healthy alternative too though. hmm. Maybe next year.
definitely too much time on your hands…
What? Just the one color??? Don’t you have other colors at your disposal?
those are the cutest eggs ever!
We are SUCH twins!!! I love Foster’s Home, it cracks me up and those are really well drawn. I want a set
sign me up 
Those are awesome! I’m glad you had a good time at the party - it was good to see you again!
Hey! You’re letting your hair grow longer, again.
what a cool idea! i love the Hello Kitty and the Mickey, but i agree with Deltus — you need different color sharpies.
i love this!!! wish i could draw…*sniff*sniff*
the eggs are so cute
I guess that officially makes me an egghead?
I like the self-portrait with the candles a lot!