Easter Eggs

For several years my old business - The Toycrafter - created wooden Easter Eggs for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. It was always a terribly stressful time. We would create, paint, and print up to 30,000 wooden eggs, often working round the clock to meet the last minute shipping deadlines. Various folks in Washington would take their own sweet time deciding on colors, artwork, etc, always very sure that we would deliver on time no matter how long they took to decide which shade of blue to use! We always did deliver on time for the folks in D.C. to run the boxes through their security checks, and get them to the White House for the Monday after Easter.

We always maintained great secrecy around our part in this. We were not to use our role in any way to promote our business, and we wanted to fend off the "friends" who would have lined up to get those special eggs. In the beginning, the only way to get eggs was to go to the event.... they were not for sale as they are today. In fact, we got the job when it was discovered that the previous supplier had been letting some eggs go by other channels! "I wonder whose making them now".

While it was a great relief to be done with that stress when I sold The Toycrafter, I still have a special place in my heart for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. Especially this year with the names Barack Obama and Michelle Obama on the back of the eggs! Click here for a slide show of some pics of this year's event.