"Emu Egg Basket"

Lucille J. Schacht

If you ever visit the home of Lucille J. Schacht, the first thing that will catch your eye is her huge collection of eggs. "Right now I have about 50 or so eggs made by other people and I have that many more that I made myself." Like most eggers, Lucille started out using non-copyrighted designs other people did before learning to design her own. Lucille became interested in egging after seeing Olen Robertson displaying his carved eggs on the Discovery Channel. She taped the show and replayed it several times before deciding that she could do this herself. A trip to the craft store and she brought home some empty goose eggs to practice on. "I watched the tape again and decided to make all circles in the egg. Surprisingly, it came out quite nice." Lucille visited her first egg show in 1996 and was amazed at the decorated eggs. Since then she has done hundreds of eggs herself, mostly as gifts for friends and family at Christmas or birthdays. Looking at these eggs, I have to say they are very lucky.

If you would like to see more of Lucille’s eggs, be sure to visit her site at http://creativeside.com/cache/eggersu/artworks_by_lucille.htm