Every Good Friday, without fail, my mom, sisters, and I invite people over and dye Easter Eggs. I can’t imagine an Easter season without this, one of my favorite, traditions.
My family gets all into egg dyeing, making sure everyone has a dozen eggs to dye, all the white crayons in the house we can find to write on the eggs (one year it became all the crayons in the house), tape to keep parts of the eggs certain colors, rubber bands for experimenting how they look on eggs, stickers, and anything else we can think of at the last minute that we can put on these plain white eggs.
I wasn’t sure if Germany had egg dyeing kits or not, so I grabbed one the last time I was home and brought it back with me. So my friends here, some of whom had never dyed eggs or hadn’t dyed eggs in years and years could experience the joy of egg dyeing. I didn't think it would be difficult to find white vinegar in Germany, but it did warrent an emergency call to Maria to ask what the word for "vinegar" was (balsamico if you're curious).
My family gets all into egg dyeing, making sure everyone has a dozen eggs to dye, all the white crayons in the house we can find to write on the eggs (one year it became all the crayons in the house), tape to keep parts of the eggs certain colors, rubber bands for experimenting how they look on eggs, stickers, and anything else we can think of at the last minute that we can put on these plain white eggs.
I wasn’t sure if Germany had egg dyeing kits or not, so I grabbed one the last time I was home and brought it back with me. So my friends here, some of whom had never dyed eggs or hadn’t dyed eggs in years and years could experience the joy of egg dyeing. I didn't think it would be difficult to find white vinegar in Germany, but it did warrent an emergency call to Maria to ask what the word for "vinegar" was (balsamico if you're curious).
I invited nearly everyone I’d ever met and asked Lanie to bring a second egg dyeing kit with her once I realized how many people I’d invited. As it turned out it was just a few of my hard core friends who showed up for egg dyeing. We cooked some frozen pizzas then got into the hard core egg dyeing.
Kate created some beautiful eggs that remind me of stained glass, Maria enjoyed using those shrink wrap covers for eggs (they were her “genius eggs”), Lanie created a smiley face, Lida and Arno created some classic eggs, and I made a sunset egg. Blake was bound and determined to create an American flag egg and, after 2 cracked eggs (one of which got a purple heart) he succeeded.
It was good night and I’m glad I could one of my favorite traditions with my friends.
Love, Elizabeth
PS - To see the pictures from egg dyeing go here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2068278&id=164002077&l=2b5cce96fb
Egg dye ready!
Maria dyes an egg pink
Maria takes a break from egg dyeing - it's hard work!
Blake and his American flag eggs. Can you see the purple heart?
Lanie and I taking a pause to smile for the camera
Kate & her eggs!
1 comment:
Would balsamic vinegar be balsamic balsamico? Crazy!
Happy Easter!! :)
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