Hello internet! enDIYvor here to try out another DIY project!

Today I’ll be attempting to make a special holiday craft – DIY sugar string Easter egg baskets!

First and foremost I want to apologize for my absence last weekend. Rooster hurt his back, so we had to make a weekend trip to the doctor and I had to help him out. Y’know, ’cause I love him and stuff. He’s doing much better now, so I felt like I could go ahead with a new project.

I actually found this tutorial while browsing Facebook, which is why this is not “Pintertest,” rather a plain ol’ DIY. The instructions are fairly simple – a mixture of sugar and water spread over a string wrapped balloon dries to be a sparkly, beautiful Easter egg decoration. Let’s see what happens!

Here are the things I’ll be using for this DIY.

Let’s begin!

After several attempts at trying to get the balloon to stay up, it was just not having it today. The toilet paper roll is too slim to support it. I had to find some other way to hold the balloon up while it dried.

I should mention that you do not want to boil this. Not only will the sugar be too hot to work with, but it will caramelize and turn brown.

In the tutorial, there is no mention of how long to heat the sugar or what temp it should be. Guess we’ll have to wing this one and hope for the best!

IMPORTANT NOTE: I did in fact taste a little bit of this, because I have no impulse control and poor judgement. It just tastes like liquid sugar. Do not recommend unless you want the ‘beetus.

Now we just have to let it sit for… 24 hours!? UGH. What is it with these delayed gratification DIYs!? I want my sugar string Easter egg and I want it NOW!

Oh, well. Guess I’ll just have to wait. Ho hum.

So the next day I went about my normal routine of getting up, grumbling about work, actually going to work, grumbling about work while at work, and then running to my car to come home and check out our masterpiece.

Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with this project. It’s super cute and festive and was relatively simple to do, even with the small snags I had throughout the process. I would definitely recommend either using a thinner type of yarn or not using so many layers to make sure that the sugar soaks all the way through to the bottom. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to affect the structural integrity of the egg but it would be nice to know that it’s hardened all the way through.

I also highly recommend patting the sugar in rather than pouring it over the egg the way the tutorial suggests.

ALSO, I would like to point out that this didn’t turn out “sparkly” the way that the tutorial claims to. I don’t mean to say it isn’t cute, but definitely not sparkly. You could probably add some glitter or something to the sugar water or maybe some clear sparkly paint or something on the shell to make it sparkly. It shimmered a little bit in direct sunlight.

It’s probably safe to say that Mr. Bunny won’t last a full 24 hours before someone eats him.

That concludes the testing of this DIY! But don’t just take my word for it, you can find a “tutorial” for this project here.

Do you have any DIYs you would like for me to try? Let me know in a comment or send me an email!

Thanks for reading and I hope you liked this DIY test! See y’all in the next one!