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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Are your Easter eggs all the same size? That’s lame. Dyeing Easter eggs, Martha Stewart Style...


If your Easter egg dyeing routine is limited to eggs, vinegar and a kit from the supermarket, you don’t know what you’re missing...

Martha Stewart would like to complicate matters and enhance your dyeing skills. Here are her suggestions:

* Forget boring old chicken eggs. Quail eggs are adorable. Mix it up a bit and find some goose and ostrich eggs for size variety.

* Hard boiling eggs is for chickens. Blow out your eggs while they’re raw. That way you can display your masterpieces year after year.

* Affix tiny leaves and flowers, or wrap your eggs with thread before dying for an intricate botanical design. Hand paint or glue on some grass after dyeing for your finishing touch.

* Don’t throw your painted eggs back in the carton to dry - that will ruin them. Make a drying rack using pins and a foam board. You’ll need a pencil and ruler to draw your grid.

While your eggs are drying, prepare to display. Ditch the Easter baskets - your ostrich, goose and quail eggs will look best in a nest. You’ll need to gather some grape vines, coconut fiber, pussy willow and 24 gauge brown wire. Start by making a wreath and work your way in, covering any exposed wire with dried grass and goose feathers.

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