So I had to decorate a 5' tall Easter egg

Another huge art project with the Glowforge under my belt! This one was a doozy.

Y’all know how the GF takes forever a little more time than maybe we would all like to engrave?

How about I cover the five foot tall egg with engraved paper? (Facepalm)

You can read about the whole process at my blog, but I wanted to come here to specifically commiserate about that and the little things - like how I spent hours just placing and picking up tiny, little nuts I had to use to weigh down the paper, lest it blow all over the machine.

At first I used these little, geode-y cement paper weights I had made. At one point, the laser arm grabbed one and scrrrrrraped it all the way across the tray (ripping all the paper) and I nearly had a heart attack. Fun times, guys. Watch the height of your paper weights!

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Dinosaur? the egg I mean :joy:

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I was thinking of one one very proud chicken exhausted and in great pain…

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That’s beyond cool! (But I’d hate to meet that chicken!) :grinning:

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Surely she’d kill us all.

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I bet it was a ‘Terrordactyl’! :sunglasses:

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I thought I had heard all the puns at this point. Nope. Still coming.

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It’s what we do.:sunglasses::+1:

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Cool decorations on that giant egg. It was worth all your time! :smile:

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Woah! That’s one big beautiful egg!

Kids are meant to read this forum and here you are posted horror stories.:ghost:

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Better to see it than be it :grin:

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So sorry to hear about your troubles, but it looks like your efforts paid off. I can positively state that this is the coolest 5’ egg I’ve ever laid eyes on!

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That’s a new one!