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The Easter bunny is near, which means… Easter eggs! I haven't been able to fully enjoy dying Easter eggs since I was a teenager (dying eggs with my younger siblings). I've grown too old to draw or color Easter eggs, and although I hate to admit it, I'm too old for Easter egg hunts.
Finally we have some youngsters in our lives – my nieces and nephews, my boyfriends niece and nephew, and our friends with kids – and we're finally celebrating holidays in a way where the kid stuff is back in full swing. My excitemenet level for Easter this year is dangerously high. I've been researching some new ways to "go all out", which led me to today's post.
Without further adieu, meet Maria of Dreamy Whites - a beautiful French farmhouse inspired blog that I just can't stop admiring. Maria is a gorgeous mother of five children, a blogger, home school teacher, and owner of an online shop where she sells vintage linens and farmhouse antiques. I'm smitten over those vintage lavender bottles. *Sigh*
Maria was inspired by Better Homes & Gardens to dye Easter eggs using fruits and vegetables. She and her kids spent the week testing different recipes and created a variety of beautifully colored eggs.
I never heard of doing this! I have always bought the egg dye kits from the supermarket, that come with different colored pellets which you dissolve in a glass of water. The kits are a great go-to way of dying Easter eggs, but now I am so intrigued with what color is pulled from what vegetable that I'm already jotting down Maria's favorites to try for myself!
These speckled ones are my favorite! Maria said she mixed grape juice and vinegar together to create these lavender speckled eggs.
A few of the foods Maria and her kids used to create their favorites…
- Red Cabbage, Boiling Water, & Vinegar ~ Robin's Egg Blue
- Blueberries & Water ~ Bluish-Gray Eggs
- Tumeric, Boiling Water, and Vinegar~ Mustard Yellow Eggs
- Brewed Coffee ~ Golden Brown Eggs
- Beets, Boiling Water, & Vinegar ~ Pale Pink Eggs
For the recipes, be sure to check out Better Homes & Garden's site.
Maria and her kids' favorite was the recipe that used red cabbage. This recipe turned the eggs the same colored blue as her vintage French zinc pitcher in the picture above. Who knew red cabbage would produce such a vibrant pastel blue?!
I am seriously in love with Maria's photography, and her blog, and her home, and her shop… everything! We both live in NorCal, which makes me wonder if we'll ever run into each other! Go check out her French and nature inspired blog, every image is pure eye candy. I seriously want to frame each and every image she posts. OK, I'll stop being a creeper. But seriously, as an amateur photographer, I wish I could be her shadow for a day and learn some of her tricks… don't you?
Oh wow, I have to try this, those colors are so much prettier than the packet kind you get in the grocery store. I love Dreamy Whites blog, maybe you will run into her, you never know!