Edible Easter Egg Paint And Tip For Easy Peel Eggs

I don't think we will dye eggs ever again with vinegar. We had so much fun painting and licking fingers as we went.  When my kids saw me lick paint from my fingers for the first time, they were a little surprised. Then I let them in on my secret edible paint. They had a blast decorating eggs this year, and eating a little edible paint.  I couldn't resist taking some pics as we went. To keep from making a mess inside, we had fun decorating out in the rain, on our covered sidewalk.  After painting, the eggs need to sit over night in the fridge, to allow the food coloring to absorb. It takes longer since you are not using any vinegar. No one wants to lick vinegar off their fingers. The next day you will rinse off your eggs in cool water, and enjoy your art work. 

Recycled Light Bulb Carrot Ornaments

 

Maybe it's because my Bacon Asian Orange Chicken Pizza is a semifinalist recipe in the Pillsbury 1 Million dollar Bake-Off contest, or maybe it's because carrots always remind me of Spring, either way I have orange crafts on the brain. This "orange" craft is also green, recycling old burned out light bulbs into ornaments. 

 

Materials Used:

 

Old Bent Tip Light Bulbs

Orange Yarn

Green Yarn

Green Floral Wire

Hot Glue

Green Permanent Marker

Orange Permanent Marker

 

Directions:

 

Using scissors or wire cutters, cut floral wire in half. Wrap it around the base of your light bulb, forming a loop for hanging. With hot glue, attach orange yarn, wrapping tightly around bulb as you go. At the base of bulb, wrap green yarn tightly around base and floral wire. Hot glue ends of yarn down. Tie a bow around top of bulb with more green yarn. If any hot glue shows up white, color it in with your permanent markers.

 

Well that's what I have been making. What have you been up to? Please come share at our Anything Goes weekly linky party.  If you have not cast your vote yet in the Pillsbury Bake-Off please do so now. My Bacon Asian Orange Chicken Pizza would love your vote. Voting ends for the Doable Dinners category on 3/28/13.

 

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Thanks to everyone that parties here at Bacon Time each week for our Anything Goes Linky. Hope to see you all again real soon. If you have not had a chance to vote yet in the 1 Million dollar Pillsbury Bake-Off contest, I hope you will. You can find my Bacon Asian Orange Chicken Pizza in the voting recipe gallery. Voting ends on March 28, 2013.

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Spring Carrot Yarn Earring Tutorial

When I think of Spring and Easter, I can't help but think of carrots. As you probably already know, I love sharing clever jewelry tutorials with you. I think this tutorial takes the cake carrot, if I do say so myself.

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Tutorial Sweet Spring Bunny Bobby Pins

I have a super easy Spring bobby pin tutorial for you all today. You may have seen these sweet bobby pin sets for sale in my Etsy shop TLC Creations. If you would like to know how to make your own then stick around. 

Anything Goes Linky #91 And A Creative Princess Review

I am posting the party a bit early this week because I am so ready for the weekend.  I want to give a special shout out to a sweet peep by the name of Terri. You probably already know how wonderful Terri is, and how crafty she is with  her blog A Creative Princess. I personally have been having a hard few weeks. Work has been, lets say challenging. My little Lucas has been dealing with bronchitis for months now, and is on yet another prescription. Then on top of it, he came down with a case of the stink eye, a.k.a. Pink Eye. Lucky for me, Lucas and I shared a pillow last night! As I type, I am telling myself my eye doesn't itch or feel like it's growing cheese. Did I mention I have a sinus infection? My husband actually slept on the couch last night since he said I sound like a harmonica when I sleep. By the way, it's so much fun putting eye drops in a toddlers eyes, 4 times a day! Thank goodness I have no other responsibilities on my plate for the next week...cough...sarcasm.  OK so I am whining, and deep down I know I am fortunate and blessed.  Speaking of blessings, let's get back to Terri. Terri has been a real friend, and always willing to lend an ear when I have been feeling like I am losing my mind. She recently sent me the cutest washer bunny necklace.  She even has them available for purchase here at A Creative Princess Etsy Shop.  The necklace was packaged so nicely. This lady sure knows how to make someone feel special and loved. Which is why I highly recommend her blog and shop. Thank you Terri for the sweet early Easter gift, and most importantly for being such a great friend. 

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One Dozen More Spring Inspired Fantastic Features and In Memory

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Right after I had finished typing this post, I received some heart breaking news.  Today I am accepting prayers for my family.  My Grandpa Fred Eyre passed away Tuesday night.  May God be with my Grandma, Dad, cousins, and the rest of the Eyre clan.

It's been a long week, filled with emotions, to make matters worse, my little Lucas and I are both sick.  Your lovely links from last week did help to cheer me up.  I had a harder time then normal narrowing down  my favorites for features.  I hope these all inspire you too!  Thanks for linking up.  Hope to see you again on Friday for another fabulous linky party.

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April Fools is over but you will still want to pull one over on your kids with these miniature donuts.  Can you guess what they are made with, head to Blue Skies Ahead to find out.

No Pattern Needed Rustic Bunny Plush

Last Spring I shared the bunny I made pictured below, but never a tutorial. I have had some requests to share one, so here it is:

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It's that time of the week when I share some of my favorite links from last weeks Anything Goes linky.  Just in  case you didn't know it yet, you are all awesome! As the saying goes, "the proof is in the pudding" so lets dig into those featured links:

Peaches and Bees shared the sweetest Springy ruched skirt.

Easter Egg Shoe Clips DIY

I had to come up with another idea to use up all of my Easter stickers.  I already shared  an Easter egg ring and  a necklace in an earlier post.  I remembered all the stainless steel shoe clips I ordered a while back that I have been trying to find time to make rosettes for.  Well I added some jewelers glue to the back of my stickers and simply glued them to the clips.  They will be the perfect little girls accessory to wear with all those fun Easter dresses.  Of course I have all boys, so these went to my shop.

Tip:  You can spread a thin layer of jewelers glue all over the back of the sticky egg, then add your shoe clip.  Your shoe clip will be well secured, and the glue will dry clear, and not sticky anymore!

Easy Easter Egg Chicks

So this was the first year that we made all of our eggs look the same for Easter.  I love how they turned out.  My eight year old did a great job.  I helped our little Lucas make one too.  Well all you need is hard boiled eggs.  For perfect hard boiled eggs this is what I do.

Place eggs in a large pot.  Cover eggs completely with water, about an inch over the tops of eggs works well.  Place on stove top over high heat.  Bring to a boil, when they start boiling, continue to boil uncovered for 1 minute.  Then cover with a tight lid and remove from heat.  Let set for 7 minutes for medium size eggs, 8 minutes for large. 

I didn't measure my yellow dye.  After I cooled eggs in cold water.  I drained out the water from the pot until only half of the egg was covered.  Then I poured vinegar in until the eggs were completely covered with liquid and added a bunch of yellow food coloring.  We probably didn't need this much vinegar but I didn't want this part to take long. Then we patted eggs dry and used red and yellow color snaps to make the beaks, and blue for the eyes.  To complete our project we placed the eggs back in the egg carton filled with green Easter grass.

These color snaps are only a dollar at Walmart.  Coloring the eggs all at the same time in one pot was so much easier then how we usually do it. Next year I think we will leave the eggs white and make Easter Bunny Eggs using the color snaps.

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Hanging With My Peeps!

Well I have seen a few of these cute Peep inspired t-shirt tutorials on the web. I don't usually dress my family up all matchy matchy.  I try and let my kids decide what they want to wear.  If it's clean and decent, I am happy.  I pick my battles.  For example my older son, who is 8, decided a while back to wear his clip on tie with his t-shirt.  Hey, maybe he will start a trend.  Well I decided to make four t-shirts, Peep inspired, for us to wear next Saturday.  Here they are.

Peep Diddy for our Peep Daddy!!!

Peep Math for Mama

 

Peace I mean Peeps be with you, for big brother.

 

One cool Peep, for my littlest Peep (who just took his first bite of a peep yesterday)

Here is how I made these t-shirts.  All four only took about an hour.  I used fabric markers, fabric paint, t-shirts,  two Peeps, and two Kraft Marshmallow Bunnies.  Yes, it is true, I confess,  peeps were harmed during the making of this craft project.  I could have probably made a stencil, but since marshmallows and peeps are so cheap, and it saved time, I put my fabric paint on the marshmallows and used them as stamps.  Then I took a small brush and filled in if needed.  If you make a Peep shirt, I would love for you to leave me the link below, so everyone can check it out.  I love my Peeps at home and my Bacon Time Peeps, you all rock.  Thanks for playing with me.

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Before & After Easter Mantel

Well I had been avoiding decorating our mantel since it is a little awkward.  We have a wood burning stove in front of it.  A must have here in chilly Northern Cali but it makes for some challenges.  Well I decided to go ahead and make it festive for Spring and here is what I did.  First I needed a focal point.  I made this inexpensive piece of art.



What you need:
Decorative Scrapbook Paper, silver paper cake plate, cookie cutters for Spring, and ribbon.

I used hot glue to attach everthing.



A mess I know it's screaming help me.....
PS hate the gate but absolutely necessary with a toddler.


Not my best work but much more bright and festive for Spring.  After I used the
cookie cutters to trace for my art work I tied them with twine to the
ribbon and turned them into garland.  Then I added some Easter lanterns and other items
I had on hand. Now for a big redo, we are installing hardwood floors this weekend!!!
Wish me luck.  I will be sure to share my before and afters.

Happy Spring Everyone!