Acid Magic:  A safe, non-irritating form of hydrochloric/muriatic acid that I use for etching eggs.  Useful when writing white pysanky.

Beeswax Candles: Pure beeswax candles are more expensive than paraffin, but smoke less and smell much nicer.

Candling Tool:  A true luxury, not a necessity, but this tool makes it easy to assess eggs for cracks in the shell.

Circle Templates:  Templates, whether plastic or paper, make it much easier to create symmetric design elements, and place them on an egg.

Craft Lathe: A necessity for making even–and straight–longitudinal and horizontal divisions.

Electric Kettle: A quick and easy way of heating water for making dyes.........or a nice cup of tea.

Fantastix: a hard fiber brush that makes spot dyeing easy-peasy. Also useful for faux sgraffito eggs.

Goof-Off Wipes:  These wipes make pencil marks disappear as if by magic.  It is one item I would really hate to be without.

iPad:  a high tech tool for displaying images of pysanky, including those in photos, pdfs and e-books.

Ivory Dish Soap:  This old fashioned dish soap is the perfect thing for cleaning your eggs, and smells wonderful!

Lazy Susan:  a low tech way of organizing pysankarstvo tool, including pysachky/styluses, pencils, brushes and markers.

Measuring Tape:  a low tech tool for making your divisions even, and placing your motifs symmetrically. Best if paired with a calculator.

Mechanical Pencil:  It always has a nice sharp point.  A must for writing divisions on an egg and otherwise marking it up.

Mineral Spirits: Useful for removing small wax errors, and for a final clean-up of residual wax and soot before varnishing.

Scotch-Brite Sponge: This high tech sponge has a cellulosic scrubber on one side, and a soft sponge on the other. Perfect for gently cleaning eggs.

Space Heater: Good for keeping your work space at the proper temperature and insuring proper wax adherence.

Strip/Spaghetti Wax:  Darkened wax cut into strips, wonderful for use in electric styluses.

Viva Paper Towels:  These cloth-like towels are great for patting dry pysanky after dyeing, and are quite reusable. A green solution.

Zip Loc “Twist’n Loc” Quart Jars:  A light, sturdy, non-fragile, leak-proof and stackable jar for storing dyes.