Decorating Easter eggs was a strong tradition in our family. One person who perfected this art form was my sister, Ramute Plioplys.

Born in 1953 in Toronto, Canada, at the age of three, she contracted polio. This was during the last polio pandemic, just before the Salk vaccine became available. This illness left her legs very weak—it was very difficult for her to walk. However, this did not stop her life’s journey, nor her passion for art.

She has shown her decorated eggs at personal exhibits at the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture and numerous art fairs in Chicago. Permanent displays of her artworks can be seen at the Balzekas Museum, University of Minnesota, Toronto Public Library in Canada, and Portsmouth Museum in England. In 2007, she unexpectedly passed away.

Her artistic accomplishments can be viewed on her website by clicking here: Ramute-Plioplys.com.

The stunningly beautiful drilled eggs took an incredible amount of painstaking work to create. The etched ones are extremely subtle, and the hanging birds are so original that they must be considered unique.

I hope that the beauty of Ramute’s creativity will brighten your Easter.