The days have been cloudy with the usual rain in the forecast this week. Bill, the kids and I took advantage of the break in the weather, low tide, and sunshine and drove to the beach and had a fun day exploring. It was a short drive to Me Kwa Mooks Park in West Seattle near Alki beach. Just across the street from the park, with our boots on, we were ready to venture out into the tide pools.
The beaches here in the Pacific Northwest are great destinations for our family to visit. {see other pictures at the beachhereandhere}.
This was my first attempt at dyeing Easter Eggs using natural ingredients. The resulting color palette was a lovely pastel shades of green, blue, and cream.
After browsing through the internet and reading about the different ingredients, I decided to use what I had available which were frozen blueberries, frozen spinach, and red onion. At the end of the experiment, I became quite discourage at the outcome of the colors the eggs took on, not at all the expected colors I thought. The blueberries made pink eggs…the spinach had no effect on the eggs… and I actually liked the soft pink from the red onion. After I saw the outcome, I left the eggs to dry and went off to do other things. About an hour later I came back and discovered the color transformation of my eggs {see above picture} and the excitement I had about this project came back.
I dyed a second batch of eggs to share the results with you. Depending on the length of time the eggs were submerged in the liquid will effect how deep the colors will be. Included in three of the pictures below are the egg color progressions, from the first minute they came out of the liquid to about an hour later.
Spring is officially here and in a few weeks we will be celebrating Easter.
Finding the Easter basket on Easter morning is a tradition my kids look forward to-even now as teenagers. In each of their baskets {similar to the one in the picture above} there will be sweets, chocolates and a little something special. To personalize their baskets this year, I’ve created tags with this adorable French rabbit from The Graphic Fairy.
I can’t say that the rest of my house is as neat and tidy as this picture of my display shelves, but little by little progress has been made. When it comes to tackling a project or the chore list, I tend to start on something small to motivate me to keep going. In the midst of cleaning and organizing, the forgotten last remnant of Christmas decorations was finally taken down this week. Yes, I did say Christmas.
