00:03Hi, I'm Mayan. Today's project is special for Easter. I'm going to be decorating eggs in the
00:09style of Versailles. It's inspired by a cake that I made for a wedding. For this project,
00:14you'll need a piece of styrofoam, hard-boiled eggs, watered-down paint, a paintbrush, one
00:19chopstick, royal icing, and edible or non-edible beads. What you want to do first is use some of
00:26your watered-down paint while holding your egg over your tray. You're just going to lightly brush
00:30the egg with paint. The paint's going to go on really thin, and it's going to look like it's
00:34not really getting on the egg, but it's actually staining the eggshell. It makes a really nice
00:38effect. You might want to do one or two coats. For this project, I chose light blue, a peach,
00:44and a black. I figured Marie Antoinette would probably like those colors. If you want to make
00:49sure that you're not going to stain your hands while you're painting these eggs, you'll want to
00:52wear gloves. No one wants a messy manicure. You want to let the eggs dry for about two
00:56minutes. It dries really quickly since the egg shell is so absorbent. While these newly painted
01:01eggs are drying, it probably takes about two minutes, I'm going to set these to the side
01:04and take some of my dry ones to start decorating. I use a piece of styrofoam with a little dent
01:09that I just knead in so that they don't roll around. Your next step is to use the royal icing,
01:15and you're going to just do some freestyle painting right on the egg, just like a cake.
01:19The icing dries really quickly, so you need to work fast. It's perfect for a last-minute project.
01:25You might want to use a chopstick to act as your tool. Just put a little bit of icing on
01:29your dish
01:30and dab the chopstick into it, just like a little piece of glue, and that's going to pick up the
01:35little jewels for you, like that. And then you can place them wherever you want. The icing takes about
01:40two or three minutes to dry. You want to make sure it's rock hard before you pick it up. I
01:44let this one
01:45dry, and I'm just going to turn it around so I could decorate the other side. Now that they've finished
01:49drying, I can arrange them for the table. My favorite way of displaying eggs is on vintage candlesticks.
01:56And there you have it, a new way of decorating your eggs like Versailles.
