Eggs.

Apr. 23rd, 2011 11:11 pm
jedishampoo: (Chicken Styles)
[personal profile] jedishampoo
Why, yes, I did dye eggs this year, as I have every year since I can remember, despite the fact that I'm of a certain age and have no children.

And yes, I did attempt to do some of the "Martha Stewart Gallery" eggs (http://www.marthastewart.com/photogallery/easter-eggs#slide_20), with varied successes. As in, not a lot. These are just a few of my fail!eggs. :)

Happy Easter!


Date: 2011-04-24 03:21 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lawless523.livejournal.com
I dyed eggs today too by myself and without my daughter's help or participation. (Mr. Lawless helped by boiling the eggs last night.)

Screw Martha Stewart perfectionism! I like your fail!eggs, especially the green one with the foliage design and the two striped ones.

Happy (early) Easter!

Date: 2011-04-26 10:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
You had to do it by yourself? That's no fun! Dyeing eggs is a social activity. :)

And haha, thank you! I think the foliage one actually worked, and the rubber-band one a little, but the marbleizing did not.

Date: 2011-04-26 10:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lawless523.livejournal.com
Heh, I used to do them by myself before she was born, so.

I didn't realize the striped effect was obtained with rubber bands. I didn't have the patience to look for them all on the website. Definitely not a Martha Stewart candidate here, though I know someone who met her; her company was a client.

Date: 2011-04-24 03:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] seshats-prodigy.livejournal.com
Ooo, how pretty! I like the one with the clover and leaf on it, and the funky looking coppery-brown (at least on my screen!) one. The yellow one with the little design on it is pretty, too.

Ok, I like them all. ^_^

Happy Early Easter!! ♥

Date: 2011-04-26 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Hee, the coppery on is the "everything" egg. All the colors in the mug! :)

Thank you! I hope you had a good Easter. ♥

Date: 2011-04-24 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] whymzycal.livejournal.com
Eeee! That's awesome! Some of my best memories are of dyeing Easter eggs with my grandmother. And you know what? For fail!eggs, those are pretty awesome. I love the colors and the designs!

Date: 2011-04-26 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
What a great memory to have! I love to dye eggs... I've always done it, even with [livejournal.com profile] sharpeslass in Las Vegas. ♥ Thank you, dearie!

Date: 2011-04-24 03:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 7veilsphaedra.livejournal.com
Very pretty, and such intense colours, too!

Russians tend to go a little crazy with their eggs at Easter, but my immediate family never had the inclinationpatience. I have some relatives who are nuts about pysanka, and they actually take those things on tours, to strange egg-decorating shows.

Your eggs involve just the right amount of obsession for me.

Date: 2011-04-26 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank you! Haha, I can only imagine the fanciness of Russian eggs. Faberge and all, you know. I only went a little far, snipping vegetation out of the yard and using egg-white and pantyhose to hold it on the egg.

There are egg-decorating shows? OMG.

Date: 2011-04-24 04:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blade-kun.livejournal.com
I haven't dyed Easter eggs in years. At best, I buy a box of Peeps and nuke 'em in the microwave. That's as close to celebrating Easter as I get.

Date: 2011-04-26 10:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
PEEPS. So cute, though I do not eat them anymore, alas, for they are not vegetarian. Otherwise I'd make Peep sushi.

So do you nuke the Peeps to destroy them, or do they just taste better melted? ♥

Date: 2011-04-27 01:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blade-kun.livejournal.com
They taste better that way. It's like roasting marshmallows, just without the fire.

Wait, vegetarian? What's in a Peep that stops you from eating it because you're a vegetarian?

Date: 2011-04-27 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
It's marshmallows! They are made with gelatin, which is made from ground-up animal bones/hooves. :( This also means I no longer eat Rice Krispies Treats, which is a tragedy, IMO.

I've heard of vegetarian marshmallows, but I haven't ever tried them.

Date: 2011-04-27 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blade-kun.livejournal.com
Really? Huh. I learn something new everyday.

Date: 2011-04-24 04:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inksheddings.livejournal.com
Very pretty! :D And kinda making me hungry.

Date: 2011-04-26 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Haha, there were deviled eggs galore here, though I do not eat them. I just dye them and make them. ♥

Date: 2011-04-24 05:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] corellian-sugar.livejournal.com
Those eggs are lovely! ♥

Date: 2011-04-26 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank ya, miss! ♥

Date: 2011-04-24 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollywdliz.livejournal.com
Girl, what are you talking about? Those eggs are glorious! I love the ones with pretty designs.

We dyed eggs tonight (just Mom and me) and it was the first time I'd done so in probably nine years. It was fun! We just did solid colors, though.

Date: 2011-04-26 10:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank you! And yay for dyeing eggs. A nice thing about being at home with the folks again? :)

I only went a little far, with the vegetation and rubber-bands and whatnot. There was a Martha Stewart Eggs iPhone app, you see...

(In other news, are you watching baseball this spring? The Rockies are tearing 'em up so far, looks like. My Reds boyz are in a bit of a funk right now, but they'll get their mojo back. My honey is pitching tonight even though he was arrested at Macy's last week the little dipshit.)

Date: 2011-04-24 01:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rroselavy.livejournal.com
Those are definitely not Phail!Eggs. They are gorgeous! We went the simpler route >.>

Date: 2011-04-26 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank you! I decided to try and be artsy this year. :)

Date: 2011-04-24 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] minidrag33.livejournal.com
The eggs are cool. I love the one with the leaf patterns. NEAT!
How did you get that one so dark in color? Is it brown or maroon?

Date: 2011-04-26 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank you! The leaf one was from cutting vegetation, fixing it to the egg with egg-white, and then tying pantyhose around it and dunking it. A bit of work but those turned out okay!

The copper-egg is the "everything" egg. Mix all the colors together, insert egg. :)

Date: 2011-04-25 12:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-ganesh.livejournal.com
Happy Easter! They look purty to me, especially the flowery one.

Date: 2011-04-26 10:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank you! I hope your Easter was good. Such a great time of year, with the flowers and stuff. :)

Date: 2011-04-26 11:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-ganesh.livejournal.com
Little girl had fun, which is pretty much all I ask. Plus it didn't FREAKING SNOW.

Date: 2011-04-25 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raykel.livejournal.com
It's kind of ironic, because I did more of that kind of holiday-prep stuff (dying Easter eggs, decorating, cookie-baking, etc.) before I had kids than I have done since. Didn't dye eggs at all this year, and don't think I did last year, either. Frankly, with the holidays always comes a huge crush of kid activities, so I don't have time to enjoy stuff like dying eggs and baking cookies anymore.

Maybe when they're in college I can do that stuff again?

Beautiful eggs, btw! I was NEVER that artistic!

Date: 2011-04-26 10:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Haha, once you have kids, you just need to find the simplest thing and run with it? Things always get crazy at holidays, but strangely, I bake cookies as stress-release.

Thank you!!

Date: 2011-04-26 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ditch-gospel.livejournal.com
What cute and colorful eggs! It looks like fun. Us big girls have to amuse ourselves, too. For me, it's a Jack o'Lantern every year.

Are you going to eat the eggs, now?

Date: 2011-04-26 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank you! I always have to carve a pumpkin, too. It wouldn't be Halloween without one, right?

Oh, I don't eat hard-boiled eggs. They gross me out. Weird, right? I love to boil them, and dye them, and make deviled eggs out of them; I just don't eat 'em. (I love my eggs scrambled.)

Date: 2011-04-26 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dm-lunsford.livejournal.com
Pretty!

And I have fun doing the egg dye thing too. Although I didn't make time for it this year.

Date: 2011-04-26 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jedishampoo.livejournal.com
Thank you! And yeah, the holidays can get so busy-- and Easter involves a lot of church-related activities, so I'm sure you were super-busy. ♥
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