and you do know that you can make your own colors with food coloring, right? We did some PAAS and some with food coloring this year. Our grocery had a little handout next to the eggs that had mixing instructions.
Well, but I didn't have enough regular food coloring, remember? And I only had the tiny bits of just yellow and blue. Boring!
These were taken about an hour later. Not wet any longer (since the dye was boiled and hot, they dried almost instantly out of it), but I loved the gloss on them, too!
Those came out great! Audrey and I just got around to dying our eggs last night. (mommy's not been well) I need to pull them out of the fridge again and shine them up (a little vegetable oil makes the 'cheap' dyed ones nice and glossy) so we can have a very belated egg hunt, then make deviled eggs!
I polished my natural eggs with a bit of oil, but then I didn't take pictures until the next day, after refrigerating. I was too lazy to re-gloss them (you'll be able to tell in the pics when I post them, as compared to the last two years' natural sets).
I get mine at craft stores - both Michaels and Hobby Lobby. Mine are from Wilton, but there are other brands out there. Wilton is usually the cheapest, but I'm going to brand-up to AmeriColor next time I need more of certain colors - I've heard it works even better.
You know, you have my luck. I try to buy a couple extra dye kits to keep around because i like to make sure i have dye on hand.
Today i was reading on a thrifty mom site, and they used Kool-Aid (and generic stuff at that) to dye their eggs, and they came out beautifully. They even wrapped some rubber bands around then before they dyed them for a stripey look. It was neat. I may try that next year instead of the big dye kit i just bought, i dunno.
Also, it's kind of different, but one year i wrapped my eggs in tissue paper! It sounds weird, but it produced gorgeous eggs. And i thought it would make them hard to crack but it really didn't. I have pictures somewhere, i will try to find them.
Your eggs turned out very pretty, though! You're very inventive, and it sounds like something i'd try if i were really desperate, lol. =)
I never thought of trying Kool-Aid! Of course, the only flavors I had in the house were lemonade and pink lemonade - not too exciting, I imagine!
I actually tried to do rubber bands on my own eggs. I guess I need smaller rubber bands, for I couldn't get any to stay on well enough. I used strips of masking tape on one of mine instead, and then I called it good enough. ;-)
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I love freshly wet colored eggs - so pretty!
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These were taken about an hour later. Not wet any longer (since the dye was boiled and hot, they dried almost instantly out of it), but I loved the gloss on them, too!
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Today i was reading on a thrifty mom site, and they used Kool-Aid (and generic stuff at that) to dye their eggs, and they came out beautifully. They even wrapped some rubber bands around then before they dyed them for a stripey look. It was neat. I may try that next year instead of the big dye kit i just bought, i dunno.
Also, it's kind of different, but one year i wrapped my eggs in tissue paper! It sounds weird, but it produced gorgeous eggs. And i thought it would make them hard to crack but it really didn't. I have pictures somewhere, i will try to find them.
Your eggs turned out very pretty, though! You're very inventive, and it sounds like something i'd try if i were really desperate, lol. =)
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I actually tried to do rubber bands on my own eggs. I guess I need smaller rubber bands, for I couldn't get any to stay on well enough. I used strips of masking tape on one of mine instead, and then I called it good enough. ;-)
I would love to see the effect of tissue paper!
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