Easter Celebrations At VPS.NET!
Here at VPS.NET, we’re less about chasing eggs around the garden and more about painting them up to look like The Death Star…
So Easter weekend is upon us, and for those of us who have been disciplined enough to stay away from chocolate for the past 40 days (clue: that’s not many of us), the weekend will be filled with various chocolatey treats in the shape of rabbits and eggs. Did you know that the average child is estimated to consume 8000 calories in the Easter period? That is a lot of chocolate.
So although we will be partaking in the eating chocolate side of Easter (the best side in our humble opinion), we won’t be attending our local Easter egg hunt as we have plans to blast through the four current series of Game of Thrones, before series five airs next week! We’ve been placated in our demand to know more about what lies in store for Westeros and beyond over the past year with Game of Thrones Monopoly and even a Game of Thrones on Business book but neither gets us quite as excited as the TV show itself. As for the books, we’re hoping they’ll be completed before the turn of the century (GRRM has hinted that The Winds Of Winter is almost at completion on his journal), but we’ll refrain from posting any spoilers for the upcoming series here.
We digress…
Although we’re still puzzling over whether or not the chicken or the egg came first, we wanted to share with you the best painted eggs that we could find in the vast expanse of the Internet, to provide you with some inspiration to get stuck in this weekend and get in the spirit of the egg. We found some great ideas!
- Star Wars eggs
These are increasingly popular around the Internet nowadays; with so many recognisable characters and, indeed, round objects (planets and Death Stars, anyone?) Star Wars is a gold mine of opportunity for the potential egg decorator. Are you or your children entering a decorated egg competition this weekend? Why not have a go at this brilliant Death Star, which we’ve nicknamed The Egg Star:
…Or maybe this storm trooper egg decoration?
- Become the mother of dragons
Fancy yourself as a Mhysa (the term for “mother” in the slaver’s cities)? How about painting up your eggs to look like the dragon’s eggs gifted to Daenerys by Illyrio Mopatis? There’s even a guide on turning your hard boiled egg into a GoT replica here. If you’re feeling particularly dedicated, you could even recreate this cake representation of Dany’s chest of dragon eggs:
- Gotta paint ‘em all!
Are you a Pokemon fan? Do you know the theme tune from start to finish? We do (and now we have it stuck in our heads again). How about recreating your favourite Pokemon in egg form, just like this image below:
- One egg to rule them all?
We all know the powers of the One Ring, but what of the powers of the One Egg? Be careful with this one: you don’t want to have to carry it all the way to Mordor should it prove to be malevolent.
- Tech support egg
One for the guys in our tech support team, that we’ve added in here just for fun!
Happy Easter from everyone at VPS.NET!