easter is my favorite holiday


It's that time of year, when I post my yearly update on easter eggs. The first was in 2004 and that's where the recipe is as well.
This time I made my eggs with some new girlies that I work with. They'd been raised on Paas brand, easy dye eggs. Mine is all natural, using onions skins and flowers I'd gathered outside. I'm pleased they found the whole process enjoyable, and they also discovered that natural dye is quite simple to undertake.
The flora represented on the eggs are Osteospermum (freeway daisy) and Geranium (flowers and foliage on two different eggs). I try out new plants each year and occasionally one turns out a real winner - that was the Geranium this year, like snowflakes.

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Here is my pressing process. Left egg: raw white egg with botanical placed. Center egg: bound snugly with nylon and a twist-tie. Right egg: Boil in dye, remove the nylon and spent botanical when cool enough to handle. Polish with a teeny amount of vegetable oil.



We made three dozen eggs, and I let the girlies pick out whichever ones they liked best. This was the dozen leftover for me.