People may be on the hunt for lower-priced eggs, thanks to the bird flu.
Yet, in downtown Emporia, folks are scrambling to get some unusual eggs, and they’re willing to pay top dollar for them.
“They’re selling just about as fast as we’re making them currently, which is good and kind of cool at the same time,” said Jeremy Wharton.
Jeremy is the Fabrication Manager at Emporia Main Street, a non-profit designed to help support downtown business districts. He works with dozens of small businesses in the community. He’ll help design and create logos, magnets and other items for different places and events.
“There’s no a typical day,” he said inside “Fab Lab. “It’s all a big variety of different things.”
Right now, though, the most buzz-worthy items are the dozens of shiny purple and teal 3D-printed eggs. It started as an idea to spice up last year’s downtown egg hunt. Jeremy made the twist-on eggs and hid them for people to find.
“A lot of people were going, ‘Where can we buy them at?’ Jeremy said. “These are high demand, and the cool thing is that they’re reusable.”
So, this year, Jeremy’s been making dozens of eggs for people to buy, and they’ve had orders from all over.
The egg-citement around them, so to speak, is somewhat surprising.
“It’s one of them deals when you make this many of something, you never know what it’s going to do,” Jeremy said. “I knew people liked them, but I don’t have a true count in my head of how many I’ve sold. But they’re selling just about as fast as we’re making them currently.”
Jeremy thinks it’s pretty neat, though. While the eggs take hours to make, but he can print off several during the day. He’s proud of what they’re accomplishing ahead of Easter on April 20th.
“Here, we’re making something in small-town Emporia, locally, and we’re selling them,” Jeremy said with a smile.
Emporia Main Street is selling the 3D-printed eggs at $12 for 6 and $22 for 12. You can buy some by visiting its location at 727 Commercial Street in Emporia or visiting the group’s website.