My Mom As Martha Stewart

I could have a separate blog just for my mom. She really is great blog inspiration. And she knows I only post about this stuff because I love her :)

Yesterday was Easter and we wanted to decorate Easter eggs, as you saw on my previous post. Granted, we are way past the Easter egg hunting phase (and Lil' Mootz is still to little), but decorating eggs is fun. My mom saw this idea, Silk-Dyed Easter Eggs, on Martha Stewart and decided we should give it a try.

When she told us that if we wrapped our eggs in silk ties and then boiled them it would transfer the design onto the egg, we were all game. So my mom found a bunch of old ties and we cut them up, wrapped them around our eggs and popped them into some boiling water. Obviously, the next question, "How long should we boil them for?"

My mom had forgotten to pay attention to that part of the show, so she got online to look it up. After a few minutes we hear,"Oh. Oops. We were supposed to wrap them in cotton before we put them in the water." Yeah, oops. I guess that would explain why the water turned purple from the tie dye.

Another minute or so..."Oh. Oops. We were supposed to add vinegar to the water."

Pause.

Me: "Are we even sure we're supposed to use eggs for this?"


The silk-dyed eggs are top row, first egg on the left and bottom row second and fourth egg from the left. Even though we deviated a bit from Martha's directions they still turned out pretty cool - eat your heart out, Martha. Well, two out of four silk-dyed eggs worked anyway. Turns out not all the ties were silk.