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It's time now for our community connection on K one, the one you trust,
and we have very committing in with this and we've got a very special
event that's coming up. Tell us a little bit about it, Eric,
So I've got the Great Bartlesville Egg Hunt that's going to be taking place.
And so these are going to be glass eggs that you can find. So
it's not your average egg hunt. Okay, these are glass eggs made by
blow pipes and brushes. And you are mister blow pipes and brushes. Yes,
that would be me. And this is really pretty cool. Where are
we going to hold this? So we're gonna meet at Unity Square at eight
am on the thirtieth of this month, and that's where everybody all kind of
gather to find out where to find these eggs. Oh, this is gonna
be good. This is gonna be Now. This is your number three and
you partnered up with some great people in order to make this happen. You
got some sponsors, which is pretty cool. Yes, I've got doctor Gopaul
Safari smiles three three First Media and Prickly Pair Media. Man. So,
so what made you start thinking this would be a great idea. Because it
is turned out to be a great idea. Yeah, it's kind of blown
up. So the first year I did it just kind of on a whim.
I just thought, hey, this would be fun. I made a
couple of eggs and hit them. And so I decided to do it another
year and be a little more structured and prepared, and so made like a
dozen eggs and put a little post out there, a little advertising, and
I had a bigger turnout than I expected that second year. So I was
like, Okay, I'm gonna have to make this an annual thing. I
think now with the you're expecting a lot of people to show up, so
it should be like make a reservation or you can r s VP through there's
the Great Bartlesville Egg Hunt page. You can rs VP there. You don't
have to, but that's where information about the hunt, some of the clues
will be. So yeah, if you do. I think last I checked,
there is around seventy five people that at RSVP'd, but I know last
year there were over one hundred that showed up. So the RSVP is not
exactly you know, a perfect science. Yeah, it's kind of a suggestion
in this town. But anyway, the Facebook page has it all, but
they're actually seeing is believing. So do you have some photos of some of
the eggs that we'll be looking for on your Facebook? Yeah? So on
the Blowpipes and Brushes page, I post photos as well as the Bartlesville Egg
Hunt event page. So yeah, I've actually done some live videos where people
can see the process, some videos. I've uploaded pictures of some of the
eggs that are going to be in the hunt, some that may not.
So yeah, there's a lot of different information out there. I try to
post every once in a while and keep people engaged. And we're talking with
Eric here and he's with the Blowpipes and Brushes and it's the Great Bartlesville Egg
Hunt twenty twenty four and this is really going to be a fun time coming
up on March thirtieth eight am at Unity Square. How many eggs are you
hiding this year? So last year I did twelve and this is the first
time I announced it. There's gonna we're gonna do uh at least seventeen this
year LEAs So yeah, so they'll be a little more better odds for people
to find some eggs than just the twelve. So because it's grown, I
want to make it cool a little easier for people to find some wonderful Now,
when I think glass eggs, I'm thinking these things are fragile, almost
as fragile as a regular chicken egg. So if it was blown and hollow,
yes, but these are solid. They're kind of like paper weights.
Oh no, so glass is actually really strong in that form. So no,
you don't really have to worry about these breaking. I mean, they
could fall off a shelf, they'll be fine. If anything, they might
get a little scuff, but they're not going to shatter a break. Oh
that's good. That is good because I can see somebody getting a little excited
and then having a whoopsie. Yes, so yeah, these are these are
pretty durable. The Great Bartleswelled Egg Hunting eighty is coming up on March thirtieth
eighty am Unity Square and we're talking with Eric Minton here and he is with
the blowpipes and brush. So how did you get started on this? I
actually went to college and majored in art. Believe it or not. Never
took an art class until I went to college. Kind of fell in love
with it and they just happened to have a glass studio there. Being an
art major, I had better odds of getting into the glass class because that
caps had a really small number because you can't have a lot of people doing
that. And so I took the first class. They had the second class,
and that was really about all they had. And then I did an
independent study on it. And when I came to Oklahoma, I had a
professor that told me to go look, there were any glass studios in Oklahoma
I could work at. So I did work at a glass studio for about
three years and then I've been involved in it for a little bit here and
there, and now I've got my own own setup. Oh man, So
you went to Central College and this is where it happened about yester year.
Yeah, my junior year is probably when I kind of discovered glass. So
class has class. So you were telling me about where you do this.
You're actually your studios right there at your home. Yeah. I can walk
right out my back door and I've got a twenty five x thirty shop that
I'm set up with everything I need to work and make glass. Yeah.
Now you know you're going to be guaranteed good weather. This is Oklahoma,
right exactly. So we're going to do this out there on the green green
grass. Yes, that's that's going to be interesting. So there may be
some there there. It's going to be kind of all over Bartlesville. Oh
it is. So we start there, you start there. Now we're getting
someplace. This is this is good. So last year we met at Lee
Lake and then everybody dispersed and we dropped. The clues dropped and they were
all over Bartlesville, the west side, east, north, all over town.
So you do you give them clues. It's kind of like a glass
egg treasure hunt. Yes, wow, yeah, So it could be a
riddle, it could be a clue, it could be coordinates. We had
one last year. It was just so first one to get to those coordinates
was going to be the lucky winner of an egg. Oh my god.
But there'll be a twist this year, so you'll have to wait and find
out. When you know, we meet at Unity Square. I'll kind of
give a little more detail there and then. But yeah, so you need
to bring your sense of adventure, your sense of humor, and a sense
of direction. Perhaps, Yeah, I mean that'll help. And the more
you know Bartlesville locals have a little bit of advantage too, because a lot
of the clues revolve around Bartlesville. All right, So this is going to
be great. Meet up at the square at eight o'clock, get your clues
and then get going. You got it, and then if you find it,
you're a keeper. Yep, you get to keep it. Wow,
seventeen eggs at least at least seventeen and these are solid glass or they're not
going to break in your hand. Nope. And it's not like a like
an ornament you'd have at Christmas time. These are These are pretty pretty durable
things. Yep, they'll be durable. They've all got their own individual designs.
No two are alike, so all different colors, different designs. I
have a few that glow in the dark, so that well there, I
okay, I got to see that. What's your Facebook page again? So
the Facebook pages blowpipes and brushes. I do a little painting on the side
too, So the blowpipes obviously glass, but go out there and you can
see anything. I try to keep it all art related and you can see
anything going on. And a lot of the posts that will be on the
event page, I'll also carry over to that blowpipes and brushes page. Now
this sounds like an exciting little adventure. That's the idea. Get the community
involved, let them have some fun, you know, bring Bartlesville out.
Yes, definitely, come on, this is great. I want to thank
you for coming in here and sharing this with you. I appreciate it.
It could be a fun one and we love fun around here. That's the
idea. I just you know, where's the oddest place a person is?
An egg is turned up and the oddest place one of the oddest places I
know. Last year, the last egg was the hardest one to find,
and we actually had it in the tower at the park, the park,
the Center Park, the viewing tower up top and it was actually taped above
the entrance, so numerous people walked right by it because it was up above
them. So yeah, I want to say, people search for about twenty
minutes going buy it back and forth. The first year, I had somebody
just walking a dog and their dogs sniffed it out. They weren't even participating,
but they were the lucky winner who knew dogs good sniffed glass. I
was like watching it and I was like, you gotta be kidding me.
You gotta be kidding me, hey man, thank you for dropping by.
You got it. And let's try to make this an annual thing where you
drop by the studio and we'll do this again. You got it. I
love to thank you very much, Eric, Thank you so much, Tonri.
Once again, that is the Great Bartlesville Egg Hunt twenty twenty four and
it is coming up on March third, eight am and Unity Square, you've
been listening to our community connection right here on K one, the one you trust.