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the egg post

This is my obligatory Easter post. With a twist. I'm not going to talk about Crabtot and Easter. She will have her Easter egg and that will be that. I won't bore you with the minutiae.

Except to say that I briefly considered taking her to the local egg hunt on the village green of Crabtown. I weighed up giving her one last chance to find multicolored hard-boiled eggs in the grass of our picturesque hamlet before we move on to Crabcity. But I was too scared one of us might get hurt in the mad scramble that reportedly characterizes this event, an egg hunt infested with intensely competitive parents acting like children. So I've heard. "Wear shin guards," one of my parent friends told me last year. "And don't be late." Needless to say, we skipped it then. We'll skip it now.

Easter aside, I have always been obsessed with egg-shaped things. Something about eggs gives me a good feeling, so I possess many egg-shaped trinkets and objets, from lamps to containers to Russian painted wooden eggs. So I thought today to make like our bloggers on Daily Find and Nesting, by sourcing cool egg-shaped goodies to for your enjoyment.

Are these herb-growing "egglings" not delicious? I received one but dropped it before I could use it. Available in mint and basil here.

How about a crate of eggs for a night light? Yes, this actually lights up. Find it here, on the site of a European designer named Joons. His English isn't so hot, but what a lamp!

If you're feeling spendy, why not spring for your very own Eames egg-shaped chair. Some models even come with MP3-playing hookups. And you can customize your color. Me, I'd take classic yolk-yellow for the inside. I can't think of anything nicer than climbing inside an Eames egg to listen to a good song. Like "Egg Cream" by Lou Reed.

Last, who wouldn't want this birdhouse? I don't have a garden to put it in, but I got one for my mom-in-law and it looks swell in hers. Get it here. Hope you enjoyed my Egg-a-thon. Happy Easter!