spring break tuesday.

I forever associate the smell of vinegar with dyeing eggs.

I love Easter.
And dyeing eggs is one of my favorite traditions.



We don't do anything fancy.
Just regular Paas dye.  Chalk full of artifical colors.







No one else in my family likes hard-boiled eggs except me.
So guess what I've been eating for breakfast every day since this....







They were really itching to peel an egg.
They gagged and "ewww"ed the whole time.



Easter morning was gorgeous.
Before church Gary and I sat outside under the pergola with our coffee
listening to the rain and looking at a rainbow off in the distance.
Perfect.



And this year the Easter bunny brought her hair chalk.
She goes by the philosophy that 'more is better'.
{allllll the colors!}



And let's talk Easter candy.
I've avoided all the Easter candy this year.
Which is NOT LIKE ME.  At all.
Even the Cadbury eggs...sigh.
I did have two Bordeaux chocolates from See's, though.
Seriously...who can resist the Bordeaux?!
But other than that my sugar boycott remains in effect.

The kids are on spring break this week.
Today we had a little mini beach party here in our town.



Tomorrow Gary took the day off and we're going to go
looking for more adventures.
Why can't every day be a vacation day?

Pottery Barn Eggs {diy}

My house needed a little Easter-izing.
I would have liked to do some Pottery Barn Easter-izing.
But I wasn't in the mood to pay $19 + shipping
for their eggs.

Last week I bought two packages of
foam eggs at Joann's at 40% off.
I think they were around $5 total.

The eggs + a trusted Sharpie + the PB catalog.

I just kept dotting and dotting the letters
until it looked right.

Once all of the letters were finished,
I cut some twine
and decided where I wanted to place the eggs.

I pinned them to the twine,
and strung them up.

I like them.
And they match my teeny little hummingbird nest.

And since I had some eggs leftover,
I decided to put some on my silvery stick tree.
{I feel like it needs a better name.  Silvery stick tree isn't working for me.}

For those I just cut a piece of embroidery floss,
tied a knot,
and pinned through the knot into the egg.

Easter-izing, phase 1...check.


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