4.22.2011

Eggshelland

The past couple months I have been trying to take advantage of things unique to Ohio. Since it is our last Easter here I thought it would be fun to go see eggshelland. It was pretty impressive to say the least.
Here is a little bit about eggshelland....
Every year since 1957, Ron and Betty Manolio create an eggshell display on the lawn of their Lyndhurst home. The Manolio’s spend the year creating a plan on graph paper and painting any extra eggshells for the huge display that includes cartoons, secular Easter bunnies and religious images – all made from hand-painted eggshells.What began with 750 hand-painted eggshells has grown to a display of over 40,000 shells.



Mr. Fredricksen, Kevin, Russell, Doug and the house { I love how Doug is sticking his tongue out, Russell has his merit badges and the yellow door knob.}



Here are some pictures of the eggshellands from years past. Pretty crazy huh!
I wonder if the whole neighborhood carefully hollows out their eggs to donate to this project. Seriously 40,000 eggs, that's a lot of eggs.
Do you kind of want to jump on it?!

5 thoughts:

Rachel Holloway said... [Reply to comment]

We loved this place--and just wish we had found it before last year--they've had some incredible designs over the years!

Papa "Kid" Dannels said... [Reply to comment]

I think that the displays look awesome maybe I should do that here? I could make a Swedish Chef display for Beeg out of eggs!

Sarah said... [Reply to comment]

What an awesome place! I am afraid my little rowdies would have destroyed it though. LOL Seriously, what an incredible thing to do.

Mechams said... [Reply to comment]

Oh Randy, I laughed out loud when I read your blog. I saw an article on this on the yahoo news home page and thought, "I wonder where those people even live?" Glad you had fun!

Jen said... [Reply to comment]

Crazy!