It's almost Easter. Here's a quick tutorial on what your sugar mama or daddy will inevitably be giving you: a Faberge egg.

Or maybe not. Real Faberge eggs, like the Madonna Lily Clock Egg at right, were made by Peter Carl Faberge and his assistants between 1885 and 1917 in Russia. There are only sixty-nine of them, and most of them are in museums.

Mental note: date an international art thief. In the meantime, Horchow makes some excellent Faberge-inspired gifts that will rock your Easter basket. Don't forget to casually forward this post to anyone who buys you things.

Here are some of the beautiful Faberge eggs that still have us in awe a century later:


More information on the real deal can be found at www.mieks.com.