Happy Easter

I hope everyone is having a lovely Easter weekend! Here are some photos of our weekend...

I love egg dying.

The hubby takes this seriously

Gotta have nourishment for egg dying

Success!

Now it's time to make some deviled eggs. Happy Easter!
~Kc

Votes needed!

Easter may have come and gone but the competition is still strong in my house!  The hubby and I had our egg dying contest last week and he refuses to admit that I beat him!  So, we are having everyone vote for the grouping of eggs that they think are the best.  We each chose our five best eggs.  We'll keep it anonymous so that he can't claim I rigged the voting process! Please cast your votes for your favorite!

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~Kc

Here comes Peter Cottontail....

Easter is finally here! This will be my first year hosting Easter dinner and I'm really excited.  I love hosting anything. I love to plan my menu and get to use all my fun serving pieces that normally sit in my closet gathering dust.  If I could, I'd host some fun meal all the time.  I just need to find more reasons to do it!  Since our house is on the market and most of our (unnecessary) stuff is in storage, I'm going to have a more basic meal.  But, it doesn't stop a girl from dreaming.  I would love to copy some of these table settings...


Absolutely adorable bunny napkin.  My husband is fantastic at folding napkins to make them look fancy. I wonder if I could convince him to try to do these?  I imagine I'll need some stiff napkins and all of mine are flimsy but a shopping trip never hurt anyone...

Courtesy of The Flower Cart

The details! Love these little ideas..using ice cream cones to make "carrot" treats, the peeps in the flower display (awesome)...I can't contain myself. How are people so creative?

Courtesy of The Party Dress

 I love that they used the cupcake tiers as the centerpiece. I love cupcakes...such an easy and beautiful dessert option.

Photo from Flickr

So simple and so elegant! This is one that I know I can easily pull of this weekend. 

How beautiful is this one!? I'd love to do this if we were having dinner outside.  I love how they made use of those little pots. I always seem them at Target or Michaels but never know what to do with them.  This is going into the memory bank.

Courtesy of Southern Living



 So many fun ideas and so little time to do them all in!  I promise that when we are in a new house I am going to host as many events as possible.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Easter with family and friends!
~Kc

Egg dying eggstraordinaire

I was reading Skip to My Lou's post about silk dying eggs today.  It was a nice reminder that Easter is just around the corner (finally!).  While Kate and LC's family have the tradition of dying the ugliest egg, we have the opposite.  My brothers and I are very competitive. For as long as I can remember we would dye tons of eggs! We'd always try to see who can make the best double dip or who can get the most vibrant color.  I remember the year that my oldest brother successfully completed the triple dip! I hate to admit it but they were always better than me at it. I was too impatient to wait for an egg to sit long enough to be bright or I'd smudge it with my fingers.  But, I'm determined! Here are some of the most fascinating egg dying techniques I've seen lately.

Some fun ideas to try this year...

Skip to my Lou has a great tutorial on the silk dying eggs.

Courtesy of Martha Stewart

Not the biggest fan of the actual eggs but I love the little pots they display them in. I even found them this weekend at Michael's. Now I just need the eggs to put in them!

Courtesy of Martha Stewart

And who doesn't love glitter? These are pretty!



Courtesy of Martha Stewart

 I'm also intrigued by the speckled eggs I keep seeing around.  And I read about natural egg dying in a magazine recently (Family Circle? Woman's Day? Good Housekeeping? I can't remember!). They used red hots, kool aid, now and laters, and jello to make the prettiest colors.

Ultimately, I'll probably run out of time and use the boxes of Paas that I have in the pantry. But they still make pretty cool eggs.

~Kc