Egg Art, Trash Hauling, and Other Business Startups

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PHOTO: MOTHER EARTH NEWS STAFF
A half dozen examples of Ms. Lynea Weatherly's egg art.

The following are business startups that readers established after reading articles in MOTHER EARTH NEWS.


Egg Art

Your article “We Call ‘Em Dough Babies” had quite a creative influence on me. I was in the market for a way to make some extra money that would require little or no initial outlay of cash, but it seemed that a good many folks in my area had already cashed in on dough-baby craft. Reading the MOTHER EARTH NEWS article, however, started my imaginative wheels a-grindin’ and before I knew it, I had become an “egger”: a person who draws on eggs.

I started my little artistic operation with a very simple process: First I pierced a pinhole in the top of an egg (the smaller end) and a hole just large enough to fit over a 16-gauge wire in the other end. I emptied the hen fruit by squeezing air into it with a 3-cc syringe, and then filled the syringe with water to thoroughly rinse out the inside of the shell. (Much of the work of the syringe can be replaced by its no-cost standby, “ye old mouth,” but your aching jaws may pay the price.) Next I cleaned the outside of my egg (the store-bought product can be finger washed, but fruit fresh from the hen will require the rub of a soft toothbrush), because if properly cleaned—both inside and out—the ovoid canvas will cause no problem of odor at all.

  • Published on Nov 1, 1978
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