Ya know come to think of it I do have an egg picture to share. About a month before Easter my mom handed me a catalog asking for basket suggestions for my son. In it I saw a little egg blower "Blas-Fix" from Germany. I mentioned it to her and she ordered it and gave it to me the week before Easter. I've been getting eggs from a family in my town whose 11 hens I *think* are from Meyer. They have Golden Buffs, Easter Eggers, Blue Copper Marans, Wyandottes, a Black Australorp and a Black Jersey Giant. I've gotten two dozen at time to share with our immediate neighbors and for my son to take into pre-school when they were talking about eggs and chicks. So I wanted to use this egg blower and I wanted to try natural dyes. I went with these recipes:http://www.fresh-eggs-daily.com/2012/04/pastel-easter-eggs-dyed-naturally.html But of course I wasn't using white eggs, though the Wyandottes were pretty light so I used most of those, plus a couple brown ones for a deeper pink.
I could not get the shell of the lightest Wyandotte egg to take the blue from the cabbage, it dyed the inside blue but the outside just looked grey. So I decided to dip it into the beet juice and all of a sudden pop! Purple! It's the small one on the far left behind the second row. I didn't want to give up on the blue though so I choose the palest of three EE eggs and it took the cabbage nicely, big one far left back in front of the purple. Next to that is a short turmeric steep for a soft golden that really makes the light blue-green eggs pop, a natural EE, another short tumeric, beet on brown, long turmeric (little too long) and behind that another beet on a big brown egg. Front row is beet and cabbage I think, then turmeric and cabbage for green, beet, beet and tumeric for peach, natural EE and short tumeric. I polished them all with a bit of canola oil but I still think the natural EEs are the prettiest. I have them all in a basket and have blown another EE egg since then.
Also a friend of mine suggested this pin to me, I am so doing this when my girls lay their first eggs, I already have a bowl full of feathers ready!
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/54606214206731521/
I could not get the shell of the lightest Wyandotte egg to take the blue from the cabbage, it dyed the inside blue but the outside just looked grey. So I decided to dip it into the beet juice and all of a sudden pop! Purple! It's the small one on the far left behind the second row. I didn't want to give up on the blue though so I choose the palest of three EE eggs and it took the cabbage nicely, big one far left back in front of the purple. Next to that is a short turmeric steep for a soft golden that really makes the light blue-green eggs pop, a natural EE, another short tumeric, beet on brown, long turmeric (little too long) and behind that another beet on a big brown egg. Front row is beet and cabbage I think, then turmeric and cabbage for green, beet, beet and tumeric for peach, natural EE and short tumeric. I polished them all with a bit of canola oil but I still think the natural EEs are the prettiest. I have them all in a basket and have blown another EE egg since then.
Also a friend of mine suggested this pin to me, I am so doing this when my girls lay their first eggs, I already have a bowl full of feathers ready!
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/54606214206731521/
