Joyful eggs

One of my favorite traditions is coloring Easter eggs with my girls. I grew up dyeing Easter eggs and so it has been a life-long tradition for me. For many years we made them the old-fashioned way - with just dye and vinegar; using crayons or rubber bands to make our designs ...

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And then we graduated to some fancy kits like marbled eggs or fancy swirly eggs. One year we made beaded eggs by gluing tiny little beads all over the eggs. 

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Aren't these speckled eggs gorgeous? I think I need to try to make some of these this year.

The past few years we have learned to perfect our technique using painters tape to make designs and words on our eggs ... those are my favorite!

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I found some pretty creative eggs while I was searching for ideas ...

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I really enjoy these natural looking eggs!

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This year I am planning on decorating Easter eggs with some new girls. Our small group Bible study "girls" are going to decorate eggs for our local rescue mission.

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I'm not sure if we will add embellishments such as these or just dye them more traditionally, but I am excited to be able to share a little joy with some people who have so little. 

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And wouldn't this be a sweet surprise ... chocolate instead of hard-boiled eggs?  I would love to surprise my family with eggs that cracked open to be filled with chocolate - now that is an egg!

Do you decorate eggs?