Hello! : )

This is Peanut &I got him a month ago. I believe he's about four months now so he's still my little baby.

 Hi, peanut's gorgeous... but um.... why's peanut in the road?

awwww he's so cute!  and i was also wondering why he's on the sidewalk...

Posted By Barbie on 10/22/2009 10:07 AM

awwww he's so cute!  and i was also wondering why he's on the sidewalk...

Apparently because he's panhandling. For sunglasses.

Lol KyKattin, We have an ostrich called Peanut! We have a few ostriches actually, at the farm.  And no, I dont ride them. I have in the past, been sitting on one to hold it still so the vet could have a look at it, and then it has stood up and run off with me still on its back... (Ouch) but we dont ride them like horses or anything.

Peanut is on the left, Elle is on the right, and thats my daughter Darci, sitting on the eggs, watching them

(Peanut the Rabbit is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay cuddlier!)

That's amazing that they let you near the eggs.  Guess domesticated animals are a little more friendly about stuff like that.  My friend used to have Emu's and I loved their blue/green shells.  You can do a lot of interesting carvings with them.  However, you have to take a drill to them to open them up they're so dang hard!
 

That's so cute...your daughter sitting on the eggs! That engraved emu egg make me think you could do similar things to them like halloween pumpkins - using a "shading" technique. You could cut of the bottom and part of the top, put a tealight in there and have it illuminate the carving. Wonder whether that would work?

Posted By jerseygirl on 10/28/2009 10:53 PM

That's so cute...your daughter sitting on the eggs! That engraved emu egg make me think you could do similar things to them like halloween pumpkins - using a "shading" technique. You could cut of the bottom and part of the top, put a tealight in there and have it illuminate the carving. Wonder whether that would work?

Like this? (It's an ostrich egg).

Although I think a candle would be an issue as there would be a lot of heat trapped inside of it.  Even with a large hole in the top, the flame probably is a bit close to the walls.