Friday, April 10, 2009
The Big Easter Egg Dye
The Dye of 09'. The boys loved it! I have vivid memories of dying Easter eggs as a little girl. The year that sticks out the most is when my Mom dyed them in dark tea and then etched drawings onto them with a needle (?). She is an excellent artist and the image of a cross etched onto a tea stained egg has stayed with me forever. Since I received no artistic abilities whatsoever, we went with good ol, "Paas." While Sam didn't get into the dying and decorating process as much as I had hoped, he had a rip-roaring good time cracking them and shoving pieces of egg into his mouth. Cade later ate 2 himself. You would have thought that I had never offered these boys a hard boiled egg. I guess color made them tastier.
I love to color eggs with the boys! We always do it on Saturday night.
ReplyDeleteI still have those eggs somewhere.....no tellin what condition they are in now...
ReplyDeleteI also boiled some in purple onions for a purple-ish
color, but the tea stained ones were the prettiest.
I poked a tiny hole in the end of the egg, so that all that is inside eventually forms a hard dried up ball, then will just go away (from decay i guess) after a few years. And they never smelled bad. I wish I could find them, I always liked putting them out at Easter every year. Too many moves lately. Hopefully someday I will happen across them and be SOOOOOO surprised! I had fun helping you(my children) also.
Looks like your little guys made a good memory.
Mom
Love Sam's hairdo!
ReplyDeleteYou're building great memories with your boys just like you had with your mom. What a neat story about that egg stained with tea. When your mom finally does find them, she must take pictures and show all of us!