In my home Easter is a time when my mother, sister and I can express ourselves by making handmade decorations. The obvious thing is to decorate boiled and coloured eggs. We always prepare for egg painting gathering onion skins some weeks before the Holy Week. Then, they will be useful to make the natural dye. The eggs have to be boiled in water with onion skins, they will become brown. We always choose eggs which have white eggshell because in such situation the results are better. When the dyed eggs are cool and dry me and my sister start to scratch various patterns on them such as flowers, lines, dots etc. It is a bit arduous and difficult work because it is easy to damage the eggshell but I find it worth to devote time and attention.
Besides decorating eggs we have also other Easter decorations. My house is full of my mum's crochet figurines. On Easter holidays my mum makes chicks, lambs and bunnies of knitting wool.
In this picture there is my hand-decorated egg and my mum's crochet chick. The tablecloth and the doily is also made by my mum :)
I'm not very good at decorating Easter eggs but I think my sister is a true artist in this field. In the second picture you can see this year's eggs decorated by my sister and a funny crochet bunny made, of course, by my mum :)
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Do you like decorating Easter eggs and make other Easter ornaments?
Which techniques do you use to decorate eggs?
