Happy Easter!

The Mr. & Mrs. wish you a bright and Happy Easter day! Surrounded by soft-sculptured and embroidered eggs and colorful paper mache' eggs (a tradition in our home!), they prepare for a joyous day.



The solemn sadness of Good Friday's Tenebrae, Service of Shadows, still looms...but tomorrow we REJOICE!



After 6 weeks of Lent-no chocolate, no diet pepsi and baby steps in my spiritual growth (sooo far to go!!), we'll celebrate here, as all over the world. We boil eggs for dyeing, wrap tissue eggs (directions below) lay out our favorite beaded, embroidered and embellished (yeah!) eggs and throw cascarones (confetti eggs) at each other! The messier, the better-ha!



And there will be chocolate-lots and lots of it (double-yeah!).

These silk eggs are sewn, stuffed and embroidered. Embellish with flowers, dragonflies, butterflies, buttons and beads.



Here are the paper mache eggs:

To make: use hobby store styrofoam egg blanks, mix water-soluble glue (Elmers or other school type glue). Dilute glue with water and add fine colored glitter. Tear or cut strips of various colorful tissue paper. Dip large piece of tissue, enough to wrap egg, in glue mixture, wrap and smooth around egg. Let dry on non-stick surface or wax paper. Then dip strips of the colorful tissure and wrap around eggs, overlapping multiple times to get dimensional effect. Let dry. (ps. it is a good idea to spray once dried, with a fixative spray from hobby or hardware store.)

Embellish with you favorite trims, rick-racs, buttons, etc!

"...Mourning to joy, darkness to morn. Open my arms; your work is done."
from Anthem by Daniel F. Gawthrop, text: Madeleine L'Engle

-EE