Egg Decorating, Grandmother Style

1.  Start with  enough hard-boiled eggs to feed an army.

2.  Have Oreo-truffle chicks to help decorators maintain strength and cheer.

3.  Have several cute grandchildren.  (Her own children are welcome but not essential)

4.  Have the following supplies on hand (no joke!):  rubber bands, rubber cement, panty hose, men's silk ties in vibrant colors, flat-leaf parsley, electrical tape, styrofoam pincushions, hole reinforcement stickers, crayons that you don't mind having melt, and, oh yeah, egg dye.

5.  Get busy and have fun.  Also, you may want to have a decent sense of humor because maybe, just maybe, your eggs will get laughed at quite a bit and called names like "carrot hair" and such.  And maybe, just maybe, your brother's eggs will turn out a lot better than yours for the very first time ever.  And maybe, just maybe, your own daughter will scream at the sight of the back side of one particular quilt-designed egg that you made.  I'm just sayin', it's possible.