Easter Sale & Friday Night Giveaway
Happy Easter chickadees ! While we’re stuffing our faces with chocolate lets have a gorjuss sale .. the prints, bottle openers and fabric patches are on sale ALL weekend, and the tubes will be on sale midnight – midnight during Sunday ( gorjuss time – check the clock here on the blog for current gorjuss time!) Great chance for you to pick up a bargain! Don’t miss out..
Also I wanted to let you know that the pocket mirrors will not be back in stock, there are only a few left, here. They’ve sold out completely on Etsy, no stock left over there !
And we’re back with a friday night giveawaaaaaaaay !!! Hooray !
The Prize: An Eastery $50 Gift Certificate
The Theme: Unusual EGG hidden location/story
Ends: Saturday Night.. (means you can spend your prize in the sale)
Now I need to help explain what the theme is about… for example… Mr G’s brother hid easter eggs in the bin… Sadly it was not a location Mr G checked until after bin day…
That is the kind of story I want.. so either somewhere unusual you hid someones eggs, or a bizaare place you found eggs.. and if you want to share the full story please do..
REMEMBER: You are welcome to chat about the weather, whats on tv, but these posts will not win a prize..so it will not increase your chance of winning. We want things to be completely fair… and for everyone to feel they have a fair chance to win.
Good luck everyone !
IMPORTANT UPDATE
On the 1st of April 2009 Royal Mail raised the cost of postage in the UK, as a result we will be raising the cost of shipping in the shop after the Easter Sale is over. So please do take advantage of this sale, we are also reducing the items in the etsy shop and some of the lines will be finishing up. So if you have been waiting for the right time to get something, now is it..
We are streamlining the prints available on ETSY and reveiwing items and checking stocks, we want things to be easy to find, we will always endeavour to have all prints available in gorjussart.com, if you want something you can’t find… please ask at sales@gorjussart.com. We are happy to create custom items for you and we will let you know if what you want is no longer available.
Tomorrows blog I plan to feature a meet gorjussart article, I feel that most of you know how we work but I think it might be interesting for people that don’t know us to see how much of a family business gorjussart is, so please join me then.
Thanks for your continued support.. – Mr G.
my dad hid my easter egg in the airing cupboard, next to the boiler, which comes on automatically every morning… needless to say my eggs were melty and my airing cupboard was a little sticky and smelt of chocolate for ages.
my eggs were inedible… sniffle*
One yr my niece decided she wanted to hid eggs too so she hid them within the house and where she hid it was so funny she hid 3 eggs in each of the bathroom toilets we have 2 bathrooms so we had to call a plumber cause one of the toilets was flushed and it stopped up.
Evening Suzanne and Grant,
What a awesome Sale and Giveaway.
I look forward to seeing some wacky stories.
Hugs lee xx
A friend of mine once thought it would be great fun to open the hood of the car and hide chocolate eggs on TOP of the engine, then close the hood. Of course, no one found them until we smelled burned chocolate (ewww) while driving. It was a sticky mess, with chocolate and cream filling (Cadbury cream eggs) all OVER the engine. Poor car.
We posted a link to this blog with news of the sale at My Gorjuss Friends. Hopefully, many turn out. I’ll be buying some tube sets for sure.
Hugs, Adeline
ha ha ha ! my brother hid the eggs in the dog basket one year ! didnt think the dog would notice !! mmmm brother noticed when he got them back gift wrapped in the dogs own special way **ewwwwwwwwwwwww* yucky but true !! well happy easter all x ?
When I was a kid we used to almost always have our Easter egg hunts in the house instead of outside. We have a central vacuum system (I hope that’s the right term, I have no idea really LOL) in the house. There are a few places in the walls to hook the vacuum up to, but it hasn’t actually been used in ages. Anyway, one year someone hid one of the Easter eggs in one of these openings, and then forgot they’d done it. We didn’t find it until much later when we had to hunt down the source of the absolutely disgusting odor!
Hee hee Easter Egg hiding I remember one year – Well we hid all the eggs outside for a hunt and some of the egss were hidden under a bush, as well. Now remember, it is Spring – and Springtime is mating time and time when little birds and baby ducks hatch. This momma duck found the eggs under the bush – and would not relinquish them! She thought ah these are babies ready to be hatched – oh well – half a dozen eggs were now owned by the female duck. I guess she must have been sadly disappointed that no little ones were hatched, though.
Fab a couple of years ago the easter bunny left the eggs all over the garden for the kids to find and the usual we forgot how many we had hid, forward a year later and we found them LOL
Hope you have a great easter xxx
Happy Easter everyone xxxx
Five Little Easter Eggs
Five little Easter eggs, lovely colors wore;
(hold up five fingers)
Mother ate the blue one, then there were four.
(bend down one finger)
Four little Easter eggs, two and two, you see;
Daddy ate the red one, then there were three.
(bend down next finger)
Three little Easter eggs, before I knew,
Sister ate the yellow one, then there were two.
(bend down next finger)
Two little Easter eggs; oh, what fun,
Brother ate the purple one, then there was one.
(bend down next finger)
One little Easter egg; see me run!
I ate the very last one, and then there were none.
(bend down last finger)
Not so much a chocolate egg story – but my son loves to decorate eggs which are used to decorate the tea table as well as being part of an Easter salad. A couple of years ago he carefully painted and decorated the eggs, left them in a carton to dry before arranging them in a bowl ready for tea.
We’d invited family members round and we tucked into tea – fortunately for them (but not for me) i was the first to take the shell from my egg. OK own up – who’s job was it to hard boil the eggs !
A few years ago, my dad hid some eggs outside and told us that he “covered them with grass.” After searching for hours in the garden and among the trees, my sister and I finally found the eggs. The eggs were in our mailbox, which was stuffed full of grass.
growing up my parents never hid eggs for us, but now im grown and have 2 kids of my own and they are old enough to look for them. i cant wait!! and this is our first year that we actually live in a house with a yard instead of an apartment.
Happy Easter and Happy weekend!!
Last Easter it was raining so we had an Easter egg hunt indoors. A few days later there was this horrible smell & no one could figure out where it was coming from, when we finally figured it out, it was a egg under my youngest sons bed. Nothing like the search for the rotten easter egg 🙂
I remember when my oldest was small ..we got him a really big egg..just the one he was only 4 and it was huge to him..He was sooo excited when we gave it to him he kinda looked in a inquizitive way..He then stood up place it on the floor and plonked himself down right on top of it LOL!!! He told us mummy ducks have to keep there eggs warm Needless to say the egg was in about 100 pieces lol..Dont you just love kids?
lorna xxx
I must have been seven or 8, I was yelling I wanted to start the egg hunt and my brother was nowhere to be found. He found the eggs I got my bottom smacked. lol
My brother was sneaky and somehow watched mom hide the eggs.
When I was little, Mama raised chickens. She wouldn’t let us near them because she thought our noise would make them stop laying eggs. One Easter when I was about 5, Mama had hid the eggs in the yard. When I went to look for eggs, lo and behold- right there in the chicken coop was what looked like HUNDREDS of eggs!!!!! I filled my basket right up and ran to show Mama. What I didn’t know was that the hens were “sitting” on these eggs, incubating them to hatch! I got a really good swatting for that and I always remember it every Easter.:-)
My Children last year decided that they would do an Egg Hunt for the adults for a change. Off they went with a dozen cream eggs , My Husband and I had to stay indoors of course and were told..”No Peeking” What seemed like an age later, back they came, empty basket in tow.
We spent a good 3 hours searching for the eggs, we couldn’t find a single one !!
I could see my son laughing at us through the window so I went back indoors.
My Son who has Aspergers Syndrome turned and said. You can spend all day looking for those eggs but you’ll never find them..I said, I bet I do..he said, you wont unless you can see through my skin cos they are all in my tummy!!! That’s were I hid them!!
Hahahah
Happy Easter to you and the Little Gorjuss Family x
I remember one year my husband hid some hollow chocolate eggs around the house, putting some in the washing machine. Pity he didn’t tell me, i put a washload on and yes it needed doing all over again.
Jayne
When my oldest children were 6, 4 and 2 I tried to make the outside egg hunt easy for them since they were young. We raised Mini Lop Rabbits and I thought that putting the eggs in with a couple of the rabbits would be easy. Well, they never thought of looking in the rabbits hutches, until they were exhausted and sad from finding no eggs. Then all of a sudden my son Chris the 4 year old runs up to me all excited, screaming Mommy, our bunny Cocoa is the real easter bunny! He has all the eggs and a basket too. I had forgotten the basket on top of the hutch and there was Cocoa and 2 dozen plastic eggs. Those children are now 26, 24 and 22. Time sure flies.
some great stories so far… LOL … keep em coming.
My oldest son love hunting eggs every year. Lol when he was 5 he wanted to help hide eggs so he told my hubby and me to go in our room and wait. We figured what could it harm. Hehehe. He finally called us to come find the eggs. We looked and looked but couldn’t find the eggs. Finally I said I need a basket so he goes and gets his basket and all of the eggs are in there. I thought ok he hid the basket but he says no Mommy I hid the eggs from the refrigerator you know the ones we didn’t color. Oh my word I thought. Well we found all of them I thought until Monday morning when my hubby went to go to work. He put his left boot on and crunch. Yep the eggs were raw lol. We didn’t find all of them. It was so funny. Every year Charlie puts a raw egg in his daddy’s boot.
One year, my sisters and I decided to hide eggs from each other. We found all but one egg and searched high & low. A few months later my mom found a moldy bug infested egg in a heating register. She wasn’t too happy! The next year she made us hide plastic eggs.
Never hide eggs in the dryer!
Never hide eggs under the quilt cover on your kids beds and always lock the door if you do, so the dog doesn’t get in and eat the eggs and the quilt cover..LOL
My kids are older now, so no hiding eggs, but I do leave them on the end of their beds or on their bedside tables.
Happy Easter Gorjuss people!!
We were hiding eggs for my friend’s little sister and her friends… and we stuck one in a sock on the laundry line. not our best idea. 😛
My niece didn’t want to share her Easter eggs so she put her Easter basket on top of the frig and pushed it as far to the back as she could. She wouldn’t take it down, even after everyone left. Days later, my sister kept smelling something awful and thought it was their poor little hampster… She searched and searched and about 2 weeks later after cleaning out everything she could clean; my niece decided she would take a look at all her Easter goodies…
oh my YUCK… Rotten eggs PEEEE UUUU.
Poor little Hampster got blamed for stinking up their home… ha ha. hugs, Debra~
Well the elusive Easter Egg that i woould really want would be any of the Faberge Egg.s I remember in Girl Scouts we learned to how to make the sugar eggs with the middle cut out so we could make extremely cheep eggs Ok, I wasn’t that crafty. Mine was not fully dry when I tried to do something with this egg, it melted right before my eyes.
Great stories so far.
When my son was about 5 we got our cat. Our tradition has always been to hide not only plastic eggs but also the real eggs we had colored. So we did not realizing that Gordon, our new kitty, would find some of them before our son and start batting them around the floor. Seems he always found the real ones too and we’d go flying after them to get them up. LOL
when my sister were really young.. my mom would hide the easter goodies in our rooms.. when we got up in the morning.. thier would always be our easter goodies in our rooms.. but one yr.. my mom didnt hid any goodies in our room.. she hid them all over the place.. my sister found pretty much all of it.. and i found only 6 things.. so my mom told my sister that she had to share.. her easter goodies.. my sister said no way.. and that she found all the goodies fairly.. well when my sister went to the washroom.. my mom took stuff out of her basket and gave some to me.. well when my sister took the most hugest temper tantrum known to man.. my sister told my mom she will never forgive my mom for taking some of her easter goodies.. and sharing them with me.. well the next yr.. my mom didnt hide anything.. she just got us a new easter outfit instead.. now that i am older.. we dont celebrate Easter.. we celebrate Ukrinain Easter (Pysanky).. and we decorate the hard boiled shelled out eggs with the stuff blowen out.. and its really fun..
Happy Easter..
Mouthie N Dboy 🙂
We always have a huge easter egg hunt at my grandmothers house. We have to locate every single egg! The last egg always has a bounty on it’s head! This is a requirement by my grandmother because when my dad was young they didn’t find all of the eggs and she stepped on a slimy one… Have a wonderful Easter!
Smiles,
Brandi
The best Easter egg hunt I remember our daughter was about 3 or 4. The company my father in law worked at had a HUGE Easter egg hunt each year. We took our daughter that day, all she could keep saying is “I will run fastican” . Well when they told them to go boy did she take off fastican (fast as I can). Those little chubby arms just a swinging, NOT to mention her Easter basket. We were cheering her on, and she was doing really good, finding eggs, BUT everytime she took off fastican that basket just started swinging and swinging, The other kids figured it out really quick, Follow that girl!! Because EVERY egg she picked up, when she started fastican running to the next egg, POP right out of her basket. Leaving a trail behind her.lol, She wound up with about 4 eggs out of the 45 she picked up. You should have seen the look on her face when they hunt was over and she came back and showed us all she found. We laughed and laughed, But it was okay with her because all the kids got prizes no matter how many eggs they found
Happy Easter all my Gorjuss Friends!!!
smiles
christy
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ok im home from work and have another easter story. when i was younger we lived by a piggly wiggly and some people hid eggs in the back of the store well some eggs didnt get found and with it being Texas weather it got hot and stank up the whole neighborhood and the store was shut down for 3 days
one more story! when we were little my aunt and uncle would always mail us these huge chocolate eggs from italy. my mom would put them away until easter, cause they always arrived a bit early. unfortunately one year our dog got into them. it was not pretty… dogs and chocolate.. REALLY BAD!
On a slight tangent, but to do with eggs, so not completely unrelated, we have four chicks at the moment ahhh! My brother-in-laws chickens were so broody recently that they started sitting on some new potatoes! Does that qualify for a funny egg related story or what? Judith x
pmsl !!!! some of these are sooooooooooo funny ! and alice i understand the chocky eggs and dogs ………………………….. see my tail on post 5 !!! that was chocky eggs too ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
ROFL great stories
These are funny. thought of another one. When I was younger my next door neighbors kids hid eggs in the boat and they hid a few under the seats and bob sat on one it was filled with caremels that were starting to melt got caramel all over his shorts
Excuse me Suzanne, this is the firsttime I’ve come in your web site and I would like to ask, the girl on the ‘bio’ page is you??? I’m sorry but in the picture she/you seemed so young… Well, anyway I just wanted to congratulate you about your job! Your paintings are really beautiful! Wish you succes! Happy easter!
aww thank you Bea, yes thats me.. 🙂
In England we don’t often have Easter Egg hunts so I’ve never been on one nor did I do them for my boys when they were young so I haven’t got any funny stories. However, I work with a real chocoholic and last week I came back from lunch to find a cream egg on my desk….yummy!
My little granddaughter at the age of one, after the hunt was over, after dinner was done and after they had gone home, refused to let her mother take the eggs she had found and put them in the refrigerator. I was some what ired as i wanted to make egg salad during the week for myself. Anyhow, that was an aside. Granddaugther Maya, hid a couple under her mattress and needless to say, that is the last year she did that. She still insists on taking them home for some strange reason but she lets her mom put them in their proper place.
Have a great Easter all of of you.
Hugs, Adeline
Not quite on the subject but I remember one year my sister in law sent chocolate eggs to my sons through the post. Needless to say they were already broken up when they arrived.
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