Some of these are Ukrainian Pysanky eggs that the kids did in past years. I'm varnishing them. The coats of varnish add strength to the shells so they don't crack or break as easily.If you look closely, you will see my "Alien Egg" from this year. I tried an experiment. There's a black and white picture of Kyle and Gretchen that I decided to apply to an egg. Well, the ink reacted with the varnish and they---- well-----they turned green! Greener than what shows in the picture. Sigh.
Oh well they are cute aliens aren't they?
This year we did manage to hang our eggs on a branch. Sometimes when I can't find a good branch, we just hang them on the light fixture over the table.
All the beautiful colors remind me that spring is coming and with it all the new life. =)
8 comments:
Very cool eggs! I always loved dyeing eggs each Easter but, we haven't done it in the past couple of years. I wanted to, but we get brown farm eggs now from friends, and I didn't think they would look very pretty dyed. Oh well. It was fun looking at yours though--you guys are quite creative and artistic!
Hope to see you soon!
Faith
Very creative! You guys do some neat projects.
Very pretty!
~Mandie
Very pretty eggs! Happy Easter! :)
Wow! How fun and creative you all are. Beautiful decorating!
~megan~
I was just telling Jeff the other day about decorating pysanki eggs with your family. Fun memories!
Aliza
They are so pretty! We;ve done pysanky before but I forgot to do it thia year. My dad always decorates eggs with us and he is (surprisingly) really competitive. Happy Easter!
PS...Faith, dying brown eggs works great too-add vinegar to your dye tablets so the color is brighter and leave the eggs in longer-it makes a rich color...it works, trust me.
I love that second egg picture!
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