I call them Easter egg frogs because the body looks like an Easter egg, and because I kinda, when I was making these, was putting all my eggs in one basket, and because, well, it happened to be near Easter when I was making these. It is my “production run” little frog, and, well, I got to tell ya, didn’t work out so great.

Now, I love to get in production and be efficient and make more than one frog at a time, but this is ridiculous. Plus, they didn’t turn out so well. I had fashioned a steel egg shape to fold and hammer the copper against. Then I cut open the egg shape, pull it from the form, reattach it. I’m tellin’ ya. It was a process. Plus, when I get it on the form, I have to heat it red hot and hammer it so that the copper conforms to the shape. Cool stuff. Or rather, hot stuff. But… That process has its place. But these did not work out so well, and I made a lot of them.

I wanted to get into production mode. But this was not the way. So I’m offering these guys che-eap. At the Frog ‘n Froglet SHOP! . But you will have to scroll way down. Way down. Because this is not my best work. But it kind of is good work because I took the time and did it and figured things out. So, they are kind of homely. But who doesn’t love a homely frog? Frogs are kind of homely anyway. Oh, now, don’t say that. Well, it’s true. There I go, talking to myself, again.

Anyhoo… I plan on listing every single one of these frogs I made. Because I want to sell them (che-eap). Just because they are homely, they still need a home, and deserve one.

So this is what I get for putting all my eggs into one basket, metaphorically speaking. I did halt production after about a week of slogging through them. And I learned something – besides not putting all my frogs in one basket, or eggs, or frog eggs, etcetera.

Homely. And, kinda like grandpa without his dentures. Eh? Wrinkled. I like that. That’s because I was folding and hammering them against a form. It’s a technique. That might be the best thing about them, the wrinkled body.

Now, don’t you appreciate that I will admit, happily admit when something does not go right and a piece does not look good. I will admit it. And I will still sell these (che-eap).

They grow on you.

I even will put different prices on them, because some are better than others. But even those, well, you know: che-eap.