Not Your Ordinary Easter Eggs

It's that time of year to start buying your eggs, vinegar and dyes! If you are tired of the same egg dying year to year, here are some great ideas to try something new and wow your guests! How do you normally decorate your Easter eggs?

Dye your eggs in bold colors and use gold leafing kit from craft store to give a marbled look from She Knows

Marbled easter eggs from Georgica Pond

Marbled, speckled and wasabi taped eggs from House of Earnest

Use Rit dye to give eggs an intense color (though NOT EDIBLE) from Urban Comfort

Dye your eggs light blue and then add speckles with metallic Sharpie from Carolyns Homework

How to make speckled eggs with toothbrush and brown paint from Southern Living

Easter eggs tied in colored bakers twine from The College Prepster

Neon dip dyed eggs from Oh Joy

Colorful ombre colored eggs made using assorted spray paints from Ashbee Design

Keep eggs in dye for varying amounts of time for this ombre color effect from Sugar & Charm

Watercolor dyed Easter egss from Spoon Fork Bacon

Pull out your calligraphy set and decorate your eggs with this simple design from Oh Happy Day

Use acrylic paints to add decorative brushstrokes from Paper & Stitch

Use string dipped in acrylic paints to achieve this artistic look from Spoonful

These amazing colors and patterns came from using men's silk ties from Boulder Locavore

Find some naturally occurring darker colored eggs and use white paint pens to add designs from Joy Ever After

A Few Helpful Hints!

Use a whisk to keep your fingers free of dyes

Use a lazy susan to rotate bowls filled with dyes so you won't spill the dye.

Halloween Candy Favor Bags

We usually have a lot of trick or treaters in my neighborhood. This year I decided to do little bags with candy since sometimes it's get overwhelming when lots of kids show up at once and see my HUGE bowl of candy! Since this was most last minute, my bags were not fun, just clear treat bags with a tie. If I had planned ahead here are some cute ideas! There are lots of even cuter ideas if your candy is not wrapped but for practicality, these all work with wrapped candy!

If I had planned ahead I could have made some cute and cheap"business cards" from Vista Print to hang on my bags.

I absolutely love this Halloween hand candy bag! I would be afraid some parent would be like, "Why is she giving my child a surgical glove?". 

Crepe Paper pumpkins filled with candy Martha Stewart

These are cute with the labels up top and the eye ball candy. 

Cute kisses bags from Secret Life of Paper

Here is a free printable that is low ink and fits over a sandwich ziplock baggie

Reese's with funky eye stickers for "Monster Eyeballs" from Fickle Pickle

A pumpkin with drilled holes to hold lollipops. You can also buy one of the plastic pumpkins from the craft store and drill the holes so you can reuse next year!

Paper bag cut with "fringe" and folded with black ribbon

Cute free printables with fun ribbon makes these bags welcoming!

Is this the mega favor bag-pretty ribbon, metal pendents. I think the moms would like this more than the kids from Janet Hopkins.

Treats for the parents! A pumpkin beer cooler! I guess you could coke in the bottle, Izzy drinks or the crazy Jones sodas.

Here are my non-fun bags, but they are in a fun Halloween bowl!

Pumpkin Art from Maine Fall Festival

When we were in Maine we went to a small town called Damariscotta that had a fall festival going on. After every few feet was another 200-700 lb pumpkin being decorated. Here were some of my fave's! Do you carve or decorate your pumpkins?