Eggshells

Where do I throw these eggshells?

I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm with Tom.

I feel like I have to walk on eggshells around you.

Some eggshells are so sharp that they can cut you.

Do add lime, small amounts of wood ashes or crushed eggshells to the compost pile.

The tennis player was walking on eggshells, so to speak.

Dispose of eggshells in the compost or crush them to use in the garden.

Tina Kannapel carves, sculpts and sells about 1,600 eggshells a year. She buys infertile eggs that have already been emptied — from bird breeders.

Few people, we're sure, have ever seen carved eggshells. These have no relationship to eggs that are painted or decorated with gems or other jewels, like Faberge's famous eggs, which weren't even eggs. One artist in the Washington D.C. area is delicately sculpting on eggshells. Her eggshells are seen frequently in local art galleries. Our reporter spent time with Tina Kannapel and her cats — mostly not walking on eggshells.