Happy Easter!

I hope it was a wonderful day for you!

We spent the day at the always amazing Sarah P. Duke Gardens. It was gorgeous and we were lucky enough to have both of Q's grandmas with us. No shortage of loving on the little one. The tulips that fill one of the main sections of the garden were absolutely perfect today so here is my favorite easter snapshot for you

Easter Eggs! Pt. 2

...and now for the pretty eggs.

I always forget how quickly egg dying goes and wish that I was dying 6 dozen eggs since there are just so many possibilities for colors and combos and designs. After they are dyed you get so many more ideas and want to do it over again!

There were so many amazing posts out there in the blogosphere this year about natural dyes or making your own dyes, but you know what? when it came down to it, I was in the grocery store thinking about the mountain of laundry and tasks that were waiting at home for me, staring down at the Paas easter egg dying kit that was half off and went with it. I had grandiose ideas about making my own beet and blueberry dyes.... oh well. Maybe next year.

Here's what we came up with


I think this one on the end is my favorite

Easter Eggs! Pt. 1

My easter egg blowing and dying supplies have been sitting on the kitchen table this week, and in true procrastinator style I didn't do them until the last days before Easter.

First, here's a little guide to our egg blowing process. I have this great tool that we got when I was a kid for blowing easter eggs. It made it so easy to blow the eggs!

first you drill a little hole in the bottom

and then you insert the blower tool

pumping air into the egg makes the guts squish out

once they are all out you add water to the egg, swish it around and empty it to clean it out.

and now we have our eggs ready for dying... and unlike hard boiled eggs, we can keep these as long as we want. Maybe until next year...