Dyed eggs!

On Holy Thursday the Greek Orthodox dye their eggs for Easter.
This year I dyed some in pastel colours and some using silk threads.
Here are my results.
First I bought white eggs from the local food open market.

 I bought a packet of dyed silk threads(one euro) and a packet of liquid egg paints(one euro).

 First you wet the eggs and then lay them in some threads. I tried to make some in certain colours by dividing the threads. But some I made in various colours. Then you wrap the egg and threads in aluminum foil and boil for 20 minutes.

 When I opened them they looked like that. Those I liked I kept, the rest I dyed with the liquid paints too.

 Here's the result.

 And here are the ones I dyed with the liquid egg paints only. Red, orange,green, blue and yellow. My favourite? Yes the blue. I also gave  a try to nail polish dyeing of eggs(the blue and orange one was the only one I made as I wasn't happy with the results.And we really want to eat the eggs.)

I also sketched on some of the eggs.

 And am going to keep my favourite turquoise and purple thread dyed one.

And today we paid a visit to my best friend whose son is my Godson. It is a custom for the Godmother to bring gifts to her Godchild. As my Godson is having a Harry Potter attraction at present I bought him two of the books and made him an Easter candle with a Harry Potter keyring!

We played with their pets.

 As they live out of the city we took the chance to walk a bit around the countryside too!

 And we left with a lovely bouquet of lilacs and wild flowers along with....

 a tsoureki(traditional sweet bread of Easter) and eggs and chocolate eggs.

I would like to wish you all the best for Easter! Have a great weekend!

Easter decorations

Unlike previous years that we went to the beach house for the whole of the holidays certain things (the weather among them) kept us in the city this year!
Therefore I cleaned up, and decorated with my collection of Easter eggs.
Here are some photos.
My mum's embroidered Easter cloth.

 And some close ups.
I made this collection of animal Easter eggs many many years ago when my son was five, during our first Easter together after my divorce! We tried to have fun and it was so great to make them. The eggs were store bought dyed in various colours and I think I had found the patterns in a Marie Claire Idees magazine.

I hang some eggs bought in Prague from branches I collected at a walk.

The Indian girl.

 Blown glass.

 Two huge ostrich eggs from Africa.

Marabeth's glass egg(painted from the inside) in AtelierStella vase (I had won in a giveaway) and two Romanian eggs.

 Some of the eggs I have made during the past years at Easter. And some given to me as gifts.

 Candle eggs inside candle holders.

 The bird I was given this Christmas by a pupil inside a crocheted basket given to me by another pupil next to Margie's of Resurrection fern stone.

 My aunt's hen next to the porcelain candle holder I bought at Nafplio this Christmas.

 Wooden eggs from Romania along with a wooden ladybug from Prague inside a basket by my best friend next to a bunch of beautiful fabric bunnies bought at the Orphanage Melissa bazaar this Easter.

 Tomorrow I will be dyeing this year's Easter eggs.