I set out to write a post about the fabulous napkin decoupage eggs I was going to make.
The kids of course needed ‘dye’, so kid #1 bought the deluxe kit. It had everything in it, stickers, paint, glitter, glue, sponge painters, brushes … TOO MUCH stuff. I’ve always been a wax crayon and food coloring egg decorator, but OH NO … I had to get crafty!
It started out not so bad, a nice neat tidy table.
It got ugly fast. Double even triple dipping was going on. Can these really be ‘my’ children?
I tried to tell them that you don’t need to recreate a Rembrandt on those itty bitty eggs … a little band of color would do nicely?!
They even felt the need to wrap the poor eggs in foil (of course it came with the kit!).
Even I couldn’t keep it simple. I am pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to ‘dye’ and ‘mod podge’.
Don’t tell the kids, but together we created some of the worlds ugliest Easter eggs.
Tutorial gone BAD! Normally, I’d put them in a bowl on display and take lots of pictures. Not this year …
Easter eggs? What Easter eggs? Pretend you’ve never even seen this post.
–> Think nice, clean, white eggs!
MK xo
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April 13th, 2009 at 02:39
Oh, but I want to see all your finished eggs!! I’m sure they are beautiful. Unique, and beautiful. Happy Easter :-)
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April 13th, 2009 at 04:38
Hey, I think those look fun! We usually just did boring 1-color eggs with our names on them.
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April 13th, 2009 at 04:50
At least you had the nerve to do it.
I boiled the eggs, but then every time I imagined the combination of my 2-year-old, the dining room carpet, and a dye of any kind, I would cringe. So in my fridge is a bowl of nice, white hard-boiled eggs. It’s egg salad for lunch today!
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April 13th, 2009 at 06:49
My daughter and I got eggs prepared then boiled it, we paint it like those on the pics, and we invited a few relatives with kids and have an easter egg hunt in the backyard…it became an instant ‘boiled egg’ party…children had so much fun. Many thanks!
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April 13th, 2009 at 06:55
As long as your kids had fun, who cares how they looked in the end. They’ll remember the fun more than how the eggs turned out anyway.
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April 13th, 2009 at 11:17
Oh, now, I bet they weren’t all that atrocious. Love the cups you used for dying!
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April 13th, 2009 at 13:30
The eggs look fantastic! I had boring chocolate ones this year.. but next year I’m definately going to make some of those eggs!!
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April 13th, 2009 at 13:34
heehee
At least you tried. I bet it was fun.
This house… no eggs here. Oh… except for the 2 eggs Zoe brought home from school.
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April 13th, 2009 at 17:22
eh, they’ll just remember the fun they had with mom at Easter time – and keep those pictures so they can look back and think, “holy crap, did I have bad taste as a kid”.
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April 13th, 2009 at 20:31
Your kids are really getting into it! I think they look great!
But, um, fear of posting our ugly Easter eggs is the same reason I didn’t even go there with my blog!
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April 13th, 2009 at 21:55
I still would have LOVED to see them!
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April 14th, 2009 at 03:33
That’s really cool & funny.You must be enjoyed.Isn’t it?
Happy Easter!!!
Enjoy…..
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April 14th, 2009 at 07:36
There is no such thing as an ugly Easter Egg. Just underappreciated Easter eggs!
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April 14th, 2009 at 13:04
ROFL! That’s about like the time we had a “real” Easter egg hunt when I was a child. I “re-hid” my eggs, only didn’t find all of them…until a week later – PHEW! We had to air out all the clothes in my closet!
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April 14th, 2009 at 16:50
Hey! The ugly eggs make the best memories =)
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April 15th, 2009 at 09:06
Oh how fun!
We dyed some eggs too. I hadn’t done that since I was a kid. LOL
I actually forgot how one did it! =P
Glad you guys had a great easter.
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April 15th, 2009 at 17:20
Check out my latest post. I owe you all the credit for sharing the idea, and inspiring me to try something new. Thank you.
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April 15th, 2009 at 20:47
Ahh Easter. Our decorated eggs always got eaten the day we decorated them and the actual hunting festivities happened with the plastic eggs. Mom tells me because “a few” eggs went missing one year and were found some weeks later under furniture, in closets, and 1 inside a relatives car. Don’t remember the incident personally, but Mom hasn’t lied before.
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April 17th, 2009 at 00:44
that’s not ugly, but artistic
nice
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April 17th, 2009 at 20:30
Belated Happry easter. I love this moment.. get bonding with my children on creating those eggs..
love it…
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April 19th, 2009 at 04:33
they look amazing, you must of had so much fun.
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April 21st, 2009 at 20:07
Aaaw… I actually loved those eggs. Very cute! Your pictures have officially inspired me to do the same with my kids. I’ve been so overloaded that I didn’t have the time to plan out our Easter celebration this year. But even though Easter has passed I’m going to celebrate it anyways-LOL. I’ll plan it all out and then just have fun with them.
You can still post more pics here for us ;-)
All the best,
Eren
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April 22nd, 2009 at 12:51
sometimes uglier is funnier, so it works out in the end. i didn’t even bother this year. it’s always a disastrous mess! bad mama.
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April 28th, 2009 at 06:03
Doing this things is a great bonding with the kids.I will try this next easter sunday with my kids.I know they will enjoy doing stuff like this.
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