1. madder eggs, 2. I love making these marbleized eggs from Martha every year @ms_living, 3. robins eggs, 4. This Year's Naturally Dyed Easter/Passover Eggs, 5. golden eggs, 6. Greens & Blues, 7. easter eggs: cabbage, beet, tumeric & saffron dyes, 8. Easter eggs, 9. Turmeric Dyed Easter Eggs - Yellow, 10. Blue Easter Eggs, 11. Untitled, 12. reddish eggs
Happy post Easter morning! We had a lovely holiday and celebrated Easter with my family at my brother's house. Too much food and too much chocolate, but lots of laughter and time spent with cousins, which is the way it should be.
My boys and I decorated eggs on Saturday. I usually like to try something new every year and when I saw Claire's post on madder root dyed eggs (the color is so incredibly beautiful and saturated I encourage you to take a look!) I went a little crazy trying to find out more information about this plant dye, which lead me to finding all the above naturally dyed eggs at Flickr. Just breath-taking, all of them!
Well, seeing as there was not a chance I could find madder root on such short notice, I decided to try and mimic the intense colors using regular food coloring baths. I did not even come close to the idea in my mind, but was quite an adventure because Julen decided to treat it all like a science experiment and came up with some pretty interesting combinations. He didn't want anything to do with the spoons however, and dipped with his fingers, which not only stained his hands, but left an interesting little imprint on some of the eggs.
We are all on Spring Break this week and are excited for a little time away from school. Have a great start to your week!
