Pam Genova

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who opened her Paas Easter Egg dying kit to discover a prize- a blown egg with a yellow ribbon and pink flowers. Amazed at it's beauty, she ran to her refrigerator, gathered all the eggs she could find, blew them out and started to decorate them with glitter and beads. She made a discovery- she loved decorating eggs. Since childhood, Pam Genova has focused on creating elegant decorated chicken eggs. Her egg art took a new direction in 1974 when she saw a quartered, hinged goose egg in an issue of Smithsonium Magazine. Filled with enthusiasm, she bought dollhouse hinges and began creating hinged decorated eggs. "I never imagined hinging them! No one ever showed me that you could do other things with eggs and I never saw another decorated egg until the late 80's," she said. Exposure to the tips and techniques now prevelant in the egg artist's world wasn't available to Pam. Her isolation caused her to develop some techniques unlike those of other egg artists. "If there was a harder way of doing something, I probably did," she said. Examples of some of her techniques include: (1) applying two layers of Austrian crystals on her eggs. Other artists would paint the egg and then apply the gemstones. Pam prefers to cover the egg completely. (2) Her eggs are normally not lined with fabric. Most of them are beaded inside and out. (3) Beads are individually placed on the shell with pointed tweezers and glue. Pam dosen't apply her beads by stringing them. "One-by-one," she said, "is my trademark!" -Taken from "The Little Egger That Dreamed" by Gwendolyn Howe. Eggers' World Vol. 1, Issue 3, Aug. 1997.

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