The nativity figures are ones my grams gave me. It was just old odd pieces she thought I could do something with. Yes, there are two Josephs. I leave it to you to suss out why. The rabbit is an old chalkware piece, thought it would fit as an alternate wise man/magi. Repurposed rather than discarded. No, before you ask, I do not have a hoarding problem. At least not a disorganized one :) I am a Virgo, afterall.
About the dyed eggs.
Yes, the one in the back says 'poop'.
It has the waxed drawing of a smiley poop on the back.
It is brown-ish.
It has become a custom to dip the last egg in every colour to see how atrocious a shade can be achieved. My stepdad started it actually by mistake, when trying to make a two-toned egg half dark pink that slipped out of the wire dipper into the green dye. Everyone said eww at the now brown and green egg.
A tradition was born.
This year I did not get around to making onion skin eggs, which are purposefully mottled brown (tea coloured) with whatever colour dye you decide to add (if so desired.) They look sort of mosaic. It is a German ancestral tradition. You wrap the uncooked/raw whole egg in onion skins, then bind them to the egg with cheesecloth or strips of cotton fabric, tying it to with thread, then boil them in water with a bit of vinegar. Adding a colour dye is up to you, yellow makes for pretty eggs, as does pink dye.
I've also made pisanki (wax resist) eggs (which are done with the same principle as batik), as well as making Pennsylvania Dutch scratched eggs, onion died (not bound as in the above, just loose onion skins), then scratch in a design with exacto knife or large sharp needle, or you can do kind of a reversed stencil silhouette eggs.
Makes the holiday fun and creative.
We've also had Easter parties doing the above, and searching for plastic 'fortune eggs' indoors with funny fortunes I've written along with a piece of candy.
I love parties and celebrations! :)
About the dyed eggs.
Yes, the one in the back says 'poop'.
It has the waxed drawing of a smiley poop on the back.
It is brown-ish.
It has become a custom to dip the last egg in every colour to see how atrocious a shade can be achieved. My stepdad started it actually by mistake, when trying to make a two-toned egg half dark pink that slipped out of the wire dipper into the green dye. Everyone said eww at the now brown and green egg.
A tradition was born.
This year I did not get around to making onion skin eggs, which are purposefully mottled brown (tea coloured) with whatever colour dye you decide to add (if so desired.) They look sort of mosaic. It is a German ancestral tradition. You wrap the uncooked/raw whole egg in onion skins, then bind them to the egg with cheesecloth or strips of cotton fabric, tying it to with thread, then boil them in water with a bit of vinegar. Adding a colour dye is up to you, yellow makes for pretty eggs, as does pink dye.
I've also made pisanki (wax resist) eggs (which are done with the same principle as batik), as well as making Pennsylvania Dutch scratched eggs, onion died (not bound as in the above, just loose onion skins), then scratch in a design with exacto knife or large sharp needle, or you can do kind of a reversed stencil silhouette eggs.
Makes the holiday fun and creative.
We've also had Easter parties doing the above, and searching for plastic 'fortune eggs' indoors with funny fortunes I've written along with a piece of candy.
I love parties and celebrations! :)