A Good Egg

Easter is only a little more than a week away.  I believe that I mentioned to you before, I love Easter!  Every year I decorate eggs that I have blown and put a name on each one, for a guest who will be with us, and use the eggs as place cards at our Easter dinner table.  There is just no limit to the ways you can decorate an egg…and one is more fun than the next 🙂
This year I will be using the eggs my chickens have just started to lay which are this beautiful pale blue color and some a kind of peach color.  I don’t even need to dye or paint these.  The color is so beautiful just naturally.  I’ll just add some trim, or buttons and lace, and they will be done.

Jackie and I will show you some of the ways you can decorate eggs in this short video:

When you blow the eggs you must first make a hole in each end of the egg using a needle or small nail.  Feel around with the needle until you find a “soft” spot to put the needle in.  It isn’t actual soft but there is a spot on each egg where it will give way a bit easier.  Don’t worry if you break a few eggs while you are learning…everyone does.  But once you get the hang of it you will see just how very easy this is.

And remember if you break some eggs while you are learning you haven’t really lost anything because you can use the eggs in your Easter Italian Sweet Bread, or other baking, or to make scrambled eggs.  Once the hole is made, be sure and use your needle or a tooth pick and wiggle it around in the egg a bit to break up the yolk.  This will make it easier to blow the eggs out.  Blow through the smaller hole forcing the egg out the larger hole at the other end.  Rinse all the blown eggs and microwave them for about 10-15 seconds.  This makes the shell more durable.

Now you are ready to start decorating.  Gather things like bits of ribbon, small lace, buttons, sequins, rick rack, any small trim, paints and of course traditional food coloring for dying eggs. So that you get a closer look here are some photos of some of the eggs I’ve decorated over the years.  If you make a few each year, in time you will have a really lovely collection and it is a fun and inexpensive way to decorate for Easter.  The possibilities are endless….you are really only limited by your own imagination.

I put my eggs in glass compotes to display them or in shallow candy dishes around my buffet table and save the floral centerpieces we showed you yesterday for the dining tables.

Some years, in addition to the floral centerpieces, when I have had one very long table in the garden, I have made a long line of Easter grass (the kind you use to fill Easter baskets) down the center of the table and nestled eggs all along the grass….they look like little jewels going down the center of the table.

What ever you do, just have fun with it.  Involve your children or grandchildren, they love to be a part of a project like this ,and everyone loves to have his or her egg displayed as a work of art.  We are having a good sized group this year…about 35 people…so I guess it’s time to stop writing about this and get busy blowing eggs:)

Make it a wonderful Easter, filled with love, joy and abundant living!