This is a vintage Easter basket filled with vintage goodies including two colorful handmade German paper mache eggs, a large plastic chick in a bonnet toy bank (circa 1950’s), a plastic toy chicken that lays miniature eggs, and a couple of metal windup hopping toys (circa 1960’s and 70’s), as well as a tiny chick straight pin. It’s funny how the church tried their best to turn the Pagan Spring rituals into a religious holiday, yet all the Pagan symbols of mother nature (wicker baskets filled with grass and flowers), fertility (rabbits), birth and renewal (chicks hatching from eggs painted colors of the rising sun) remain with us to this day! Happy Spring Celebration everyone!
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Allee Willis
Adorable contents. That chick with the big bonnet is so much better than the chicks that are hatched today.
Did you dye the eggs in the second basket yourself?
Michael Ely
Yes, Allee, my partner and I dyed the eggs (in the background). Don’t think a year goes by that I don’t dye eggs. Some years I even gather up friends for egg dyeing parties (it’s fun to look at all the party photos going back to the 1970’s). Guess I’m still a little boy stuck in a man’s body!
Allee Willis
That’s the best way to be.
denny
I absolutely love that little chickie with the bonnet!
shirlie williams
Fabulous, I want to come to one of your egg dyeing parties..why do I live so far away !!
Michael Ely
Life is full of surprises, and perhaps one day our paths will cross! You just never know. Till then, I’m happy we are connected thru AWMOK and FB! xoxo
windupkitty
wow, i LOVE this!! I have few of those old greman paper eggs..i go crazy for them…the pictures always so bizarre…..i love that you still dye eggs…i never did as a kid, we always had the plastic ones filled with chocolate, so hey, no complaints! but they look so cool…..i love easter colors and decorations…second only to valentine’s day :)