Last week I found an intriguing blog about coloring Easter eggs with silk ties. A few days later at a garage sale, I stumbled across a pile of old ties.  It must be Providence, I thought.  I selected some obnoxious print and bought it for a dollar. I know, I know, an exorbitant amount. I'm a sucker for paying full price at yard sales!

Home with my treasure and my grandson, I decided to surprise my daughter-in-law and actually pull off a craft on my own.  Now to fully appreciate this story, you have to understand my family. My daughter and daughter-in-laws are all amazingly talented. Me, not so much. Not that I'm not crafty, I can follow instructions as well as anyone, but my girls are super talented.  Amazing artists and decorators. They do not just paint a wall; they stripe walls. They draw detailed pictures of animal creatures while sitting at coffee shops, just for fun. They tell me how to put together my outfits. "Mallory, does this go?"

Amber, loves to draw me into her projects.  "Hey, Mom, want to build Christmas Stars? What about this new glitter Chevron print for a baby gift?"  I shudder.  You see, frankly, I'm a slob when it comes to crafts.  Things do not have to be perfect for me.  Exact lines do not exist in my nature. Perhaps I'm an undiscovered Picasso. Not so, for my girls.  So I try, super hard, but usually more glitter ends up on the floor than the project.

But not today! Today, I was initiating the project. I set my laptop in front of me with pride and began. Cutting open the old tie, I sized a square of the material large enough to wrap around my egg. Using cooking twine, Wade wrapped it several times to secure the silk on the egg during boiling. As you can see we did not wrap it well. Next time I would secure it completely. Using an old white rag, I wrapped up the swelling egg one more time and tied it with a knot.  The instructions called for 1/4 cup of vinegar to be added to 4 cups of water in a small to medium saucepan. Placing the eggs into the pan with care, I brought the water to a boil and then simmered for 30 minutes. I used raw eggs, but if you wanted to keep the egg as a decoration later, you could blow the eggs out first....Remember, it's me not my daughters completing this craft, so whole eggs it was!  And tadah! A craft completed all on my own.  You can see why the string matters, the pattern was a little helter skelter, but it showed. Success! I will definitely try this process again next year because this egg turned out much  better than my spotted PAAS eggs....Sigh.  And so to my girls, I did it!  My crafting days are done for the whole year, and who knows maybe this will count for next year as well....:)

​Love you! Mom