Here is my poor attempt at being a crafty mum! Tilly lo-o-o-o-o-ves a soft boiled egg and doesn't give two hoots about chocolate, so I thought I'd dye some eggs for her Easter breakfast. I had seen an article in Notebook magazine about using office supply sticky dots to make patterns on the eggs. Well, of course, they meant for when you dye them in cold water - not the bubbly boiling water- didn't they. I was most dismayed to see all my carefully applied sticky dots bobbing around in the water 2 seconds after I had put the eggs in. That was mishap number one. Mishap number two was that I tried to mix a nice purple colour in the dye, but used brown eggs - well, brown and purple just makes maroon. Not really the festive colour I was after! Nowhere near as classy as this little display at Little Birds. Or what about these grogeous, naturally dyed ones at Knitting Iris!
Not to worry. Tilly was very happy to eat the eggs anyway.
I know it is a bad flash photo, but Tilly rises early and there wasn't enough sunlight.