Decorating Eggs

This year dyeing eggs was an all day affair. I wanted to make egg tulips like my grandmother used to have and C had gotten a Ukrainian egg dye kit for her bday so we wanted to try that (for both these we had to blow eggs out, that was fun!) and then we could not go without doing them the traditional American way as well! All told we had lots of eggs and lots of fun.
For the Ukrainian eggs we took this tool and heated it, loaded it with wax and applied it to the egg. We had drawn our pattern on with pencil and followed those line. It was challenging but fun to try.

sorry this is blurry but this is one being colored will be made into a tulip

tulips turned upside down to dry

Here are the tulips, and a few traditional finished and Ukrainain eggs waiting to be done.

Wax applied with the tool stays on thicker than the crayon we traditionally use. Then you are to heat the egg up again and remove the wax. We have yet to do that step... and the crayon is was much easier to use... so not sure we will try again but it was fun to try. Below is a picture Easter morning of the egg tulips finished. They don't stand up like I remember Grandma's but we thought they looked nice.

Here are the eggs like we traditionally color them. I just love colored eggs. The Ukrainian egg dye was very brilliant. And we have never had black before. But I ended up liking the
black ones just as much as the others!

Finished Ukrainian eggs

and these smocked eggs my mother made... we love to get them out every year!

(and there are two small Ukrainian bought eggs too that Natasha gave me)

(note - all but the last 5 pics were taken by my 7yr old... he is quite a photographer I think)