Bad Elf Art

[elfs]

Jan 23rd: Hard boiled eggs.

One of the kids' favorite lunches is egg salad sandwiches. Making the eggs is a bit of a chore first thing in the morning, so we make them in the evening, and usually they're left to chill while the girls are going to bed. One morning a while ago one of the girls, I think it was Kouryou-chan, picked up the wrong egg and cracked it expecting it to be hard-boiled when it wasn't. Since then, I've taken to marking the hard-boiled ones. Usually I just write their initials on them, but oftentimes I try to draw something. I've drawn a porcupine and a dragon (Yamaraashi-chan and Kouryou-chan), a snake and a pirate, I've written "How do you keep a fool busy? See other egg." on both of them, and lots and lots of bad chibi^[?].

This was last night's effort. I think the Elvis is better than the Harry Potter.

Comments

[katybeth]

My hard boiled eggs just get penciled X's. I like to keep a few HB eggs around so I don't have the overhead when I want to make egg salad or just eat an egg for some quick protein. As long as you're eating them frequently enough, you don't have them sitting in the fridge for too long.

Have you taught the girls how to spin eggs to see if they're raw or hard boiled? I now know two methods for doing so.

[psi-star-psi.livejournal.com]

The egg on the right looks a bit like Dave Davenport of Narbonic (http://www.narbonic.com/cast.html).

[xengar.livejournal.com]

I lucked out and had the egg supplier change packaging. So I've just kept the old carton for the hard boiled ones, and it's quite noticeably different than the new ones with the raw eggs. Some places you can do the same thing by getting one batch of white (or brown, which ever you don't use normally) although often the difference there is just whatever is printed on the carton.

[bldrnrpdx.livejournal.com]

The girls might like playing around with egg molds too.

[amythis.livejournal.com]

Oh, the "Harry Potter" face looked fluffy, so my first thought was the owl character from New Zoo Revue. Elvis is good though, the sequins esp.