One hour, one day....progress is made ! one step after the other ! Sending positivity your way...everyday !
Hope your Easter Day was happy and rest-filled.

Our internet was disconnected for the day, so I'm catching up. It was a good thing because it meant I got a lot of other stuff done...like playing with digitizing some designs (notice I did not say I turned off the computer... ). So there is a lot to catch up with on the Forum!

Limbania, hope this cold is a passing thing and that you recover quickly--hopefully the support of family and friends are giving you a little bit of time to decompress while you go through all this. In the meantime, what wonderful eggs you received from your friend! Too cool!!!

So glad both Lotti and Karen showed off their mahogany (in Karen's case burled eggs), they really look like wood and are just showcase eggs--I'm going to make some for next year (or maybe next week for fun if I get antsy after hours of digitizing).

Happy Easter everyone--hope you had a great weekend!

My thoughts and prayers are with you daily, Limbania. I am so sorry you have a cold along with everything else. The eggs are darling. So glad your family is helping with the children. No matter how tired or worn out Mom feels with illness the kids' energy never stops. We're with you. You are looking beautiful. Wish you felt as good as you look!

Last Friday was a rough day! All morning getting Naturophatic treatments. Blood work and appointment with the oncologist. White blood cell count... None. Too bad since I'm dealing with a cold that can get our of control very easy. Started taking antibiotics and having some rest while DMIL helped with the kids for the night. She went back home to AK on Saturday morning.

Happy Easter!
Easter bunny managed to leave a basket with goodies and a few eggs for the kids to find (thank you DMIL and auntie Gail).
Auntie-grandma and Uncle-grandpa took the kids to the movie theatre and will take the kids out for Easter supper today.
Still have to be off public places. Cold is not too bad anymore but, some cough now. But, so far no fever, so that's good.
Ms. Sheri, a dear friend from Springfield, Missouri (where I lived for 7 years) sent this beautiful creatures and empty tomb eggs, they are gorgeous! (See photo).


Love the eggs and the bunnies Lotti! I'll have to try those next year. In Mexico we don't do Easter bunny or anything like it. Since most of the population is catholic is mostly a religious holiday.

Cute pictures Lotti and Margo.

It has been a blast and a pleasure having you all "virtually" here. Hope some day we can make it happen for real.

Thank you for the nice comments about the "new look".
Reetzbobeetz wrote:
Not much on the singing department Rita, although I can imitate some singers in Spanish, might have to try one of Sinead O'Connor's songs and see.

idaho wrote:
Thanks Marilyn! The photographer is me and my camera is my iPad.

Happy Easter everybody.

HAPPY EASTER everyone, somehow I missed the TQS plane to Limbania's I do not know what happen, I hope everyone had a great time.

Lotti and Karen I am enjoying your wonderful Easter Eggs. Thanks.

Margarita in a Sprinkling Easter morning in Auburn, California

lotti wrote:
Thanks Lotti! Nature is sure cool and so surprising with the results.
Happy Easter everyone!!

Go right ahead - there are plenty for all!

Can I take one home to inspire the girls?

Love those eggs, Karen! Isn't it fab the way each egg is always totally different! And the fab colors we can get just with the onion skins. Nature at its best!

Hey Lotti I make onion skin eggs too. My Mom always did when we were growing up. I love how they look like wooden eggs. She would put some paraffin wax in the water to get patterns to appear instead of painting them with the white paint. Last year I tried adding cooking oil instead and here's how they turned out for me this year. It's funny to see how they look. The pale solid beige one was in the same batch that got some of those yellow speckled ones.

For those of us who love eye candy, the visuals are almost as good as the real thing and even better if we are counting calories. Thanks. It's nice to enjoy the pictures even if you aren't doing the baking this year.

Eggs are cooked in onion skins, I generally just collect the onion skins from all red and brown onions, boil them up in a pan of water, add the eggs to the hot water, cook till hard oiled, rinse in cold water, ... paint using a waterbased white paint, rub with a butter-wrapper, then polish with a paper towel and they're all set. If I have more time I tie parsley, small flowers, whatever herbs and pretty grasses I can find around the eggs, hold it to the eggs by tying them up in old (washed) pantyhose, before cooking, also cook in the onion skins till hard boiled.

I actually cheated, as I'm home alone this year I didn't bother with the Easter baking and cooking... So these were the pictures of last years' lot, when we only realized that the baked bunnies were never fotographed - we all love them and they usually go fairly quickly... But here's a picture from another year...

Both the eggs and bunnies (as well as easter brunch either before or after the egg-hunt), have been a tradition at our house since I was little.

Beautiful eggs and bunnies Lotti! I can taste those bunny ears already!