"TIPS" Thursday

Well we are only a few days away from Easter and I am sure many of you will be getting ready to dye tons of eggs with your kiddies. I haven't decided yet if I will be dying eggs with my boys because we are leaving Saturday for Kalahari. It's an indoor waterpark in Wisconsin. We do have a full kitchen in our suite so there really isn't any reason we couldn't dye eggs. But I might not be able to get them out of the water long enough to do that. So how about some Easter egg dying tips? Here are a few I ran across googling, of course.

• If using food coloring or tablets to dye your eggs make sure your eggs are completely cooled off before dying. Cold eggs adhere the color better. But if you are coloring or using wax, warm eggs work best for this method.
• Wrap rubber bands around your hard-boiled eggs, then drop them in food-coloring dye. Remove eggs, pat dry with paper towel and remove rubber bands. The parts of the egg covered with rubber bands will not be colored. Once the rubber bands are removed, you can drop the egg into a different color dye.
• Make a design on an egg with a clear or white crayon, and then dye it in a light color. Once it’s dry, draw more of the design with the crayon, and dye it a slightly darker color. You can keep doing this from lighter to darker colors until you have a brilliant multi-layered display of loveliness. This method is called Psyanky, and it’s a Ukrainian folk tradition. Doesn't that sound neat?

Now go buy those eggs and have lots of fun spending quality time with your kids, neices, nephews, or even some neighborhood kids. I'm sure someone's mom or dad wouldn't mind getting rid of them for awhile-LOL.

Have a wonderful Easter weekend everyone!!!