Egg-citing Easter!

Inspired by Jen's post a couple years ago, my mother decided that this year, we were going to do all natural dyes, and that we'd all get creative and come up with our own ideas.

Let's take a visual journey through our family's newest hippy tradition.

Boiling grass - that should turn green, right?

Wrong. Boiled grass turns dark-pee color.

Oh well, maybe wrapping an egg in some grass will transfer some green.

Purple cabbage & vinegar! (first I scribbled on it with a bar of beeswax - nature's crayon)

Then I decided to just take some already boiled eggs and decorate them with natural/edible things. This one was decorated with pink Christmas cactus flowers and some daffodil petals

I have another idea - let's smear MUSTARD. Mustard is natural, right?

After boiling eggs in things and rubbing eggs in other things, I switched it up and went with texture. This little beauty is my MJ egg (cause it don't matter if you're black or white). Honey is the adhesive and then it was gingerly rolled in black and white sesame seeds.

These are my final products. From left to right: purple cabbage w/ beeswax, mustard, sesame seeds, onion skins (not pictured above), flower smash, and grass leaves boiled in pee-colored grass juice.

These are my mom's final products - she was very creative too! Left to right: sun-dried tomato (yields less than exciting results), turmeric, beet juice (you'd think it'd be brighter, right??), red vanilla herbal tea, red cabbage, and cayenne pepper in the middle.

This one is just hilarious to me - it shows my brothers' creations. Clockwise from the top left: some crazy concoction that even Joshua can't remember the contents of, ketchup, blended orange, grass, reconstituted chili powder, more grass, and raspberries.

Here's something you may not know: leaving a boiled egg in a mostly-vinegar suspension for 9 hours can do some funky things. For example, this grass egg done by Joshua turned into a soft, nasty mess. It looks like a wrinkly snake egg! When he cut into it just for fun (obviously we would never make him eat it) the whole thing writhed and squished. Imagine cutting a really soggy/mushy grape. It was kindof like that, but worse.
Totally gross and awesome.

Any tips and/or suggestions for us for next year?