And so it began again in 2014

The Faberge Big Egg Hunt New York!

with a brand new fibreglass egg…

The process was the same as before…lots of templates and then onto the real thing!!!

And as before the lovely Amanda and Dave from Sk signs worked their magic creating the vinyls from my artwork...

…lots of late nights…and lots of tea and biscuits…again!

Then it was off to the lovely Mr Simon Emery and Crew at Paintbox for the final lacquer…

…and then carefully wrapped, popped in a crate and off on a slow boat to the Big Apple baby!!!

I went to New York for the final few days at the end of the egg hunt but Simon had gone out before to make sure our eggs arrive safely and placed on their plinths in their secret locations…

Just having a quick spruce up!

The eggs were all hidden in locations around New York until the final week of the Egg Hunt when the eggs were located all around the Rockafeller Centre for everyone to see!

An app was created by Saatchi & Saatchi New York and each egg had its own chip where the hunter could scan the egg and digitally collect them - the person who collect all the eggs could be entered into a draw to win a Faberge Egg Pendant!

The Alphaegg of New York was hidden in the window of The Scholastic Children's Bookstore...

Where they also sold my 'Eggsclusive' Alphaegg Tote bag!

In the last week of the egg hunt all of the eggs were located at the Rockerfeller Centre…The Alphaegg was placed next to Tracey Emin's Egg…

 Saatchi & Saatchi also devised a campaign during the hunt for all of the eggs to aid the hunters...

I was also featured in Martha Stewart's blog as one of her top eggs!!!

I also created the design for 100 smaller ostrich eggs which were sold in the Big Egg Hunt shop!

The Alphaegg of London was also featured in Town & Country Magazine along with Simon's Egg.

 It was such an amazing event and for two such worthy charities…after the online auction ended the Alphaegg raised...

for two very worthy charities...Elephant Family and Studio in a School

How do you like your eggs in the morning...

...preferably hidden somewhere in New York!

I am excited to announce that I will be one of a small group of UK artists and designers who will be taking part in The Faberge Big Egg Hunt in NEW YORK from 1st April 2014! 

We will be joining forces with American artists, designers, architects and photographers to take part in the world's BIGGEST egg hunt raising vital funds for two worthy charities:
The Elephant Family and Studio in a school.

Over the next few weeks I will be posting updates and information about The Big Egg Hunt and the egg I created.

For more information please visit:

http://thebigegghunt.org

Twitter: @Thebigegghuntny
Instagram: @thebigegghuntny
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Hashtag: #thebigegghuntny

Elephants, Eggs, Tigers...

It has to be said that Elephant Family make raising money fun, with Elephant Parade London, Jungle City and The Faberge Big Egg Hunt London they raise vital funds whilst inspiring people through art!

Luckily you do not have to wait for the next auction or fundraising event, you can commission artists who have taken part in previous events to create an egg, crocodile or elephant to your very own design!

The Elephant Family produced an Art Book featuring 35 artists to enable buyers to commission these sculptures.

Bespoke commissions can be created or a design inspired by previous sculptures. 
So if you fancy a crocodile in your swimming pool or a baby elephant in your child's nursery or playroom contact Elephant Family here.

More eggs in the basket

Shortly after The Big Egg Hunt ended, I was commissioned by Action for Children to create 11 more ostrich eggs to send out as a thank you to partners and organisations that had supported the Charity during The Big Egg Hunt.

The design was based on a group of young carers from one of the Action for Children projects in London. It centered around their hopes and dreams for the future and was full of positivity and optimism.

The Children were also involved in the project and created an egg for the hunt which you can see here:

Art is such a great way to express yourself, it helps young people forget their worries for a short time. Their hopes and dreams were amazing and the sky was the limit! The final design was vibrant and fun and I hope captured the optimism they all shared.

The final ostrich eggs before they went to their  new homes...

Cracking records

The Big Egg Hunt also broke the Guinness World Record for the most participants in an egg hunt!

You care read the full story here

...so...it's been a while...

...nearly two years!
After the egg hunt finished in London we were having lots of building work at home, so I took my designer hat off and put a hard hat on! With so much dust and disruption I abandoned all work for a while and turned into Sarah Beeny!!!

I was completely shocked and blown away when the bidding ended on the egg auction. The Alpha Egg of London ended up raising a massive:

£12500!!!

It was such an amazing feeling to have raised so much for two worthy charities and to have taken part alongside so many talented artists and designers.

I did get to say one last goodbye to The Alpha Egg and I think it will be very happy in its new home!

We're going on an egg hunt!

On the last weekend of The Big Egg Hunt we took the kids up to hunt the eggs for the last time - slightly easier on the feet this time as they were in closer proximity!!!

We bought the I-SPY-EGGS book and set to work...

it was a bit like egg bingo (I was told!)

I wonder who's egg this is????

It was such an amazing sp'egg'tacle!

We loved Rebecca Sutherlands wOL in the Pop up shop

Rob Ryan's The Bird's Promise egg - we heart Rob Ryan!

Bit worried that Pandora might pop out to say hello! :0

Blooming lovely - Pretty Polly!

There were so many amazing eggs - once we got up close you could 
really see the amount of hard work and love that had gone into them all!

My Ostrich eggs had all sold out but you could still get one of these in the shop...

...and there WAS Wally!

ticking off the last few eggs...

...and then we said our final goodbyes to the Alpha Egg :(

Bye bye! xxxx