Oh, my. Time is passing so quickly this semester! David and I have been up to ears in schoolwork, grading, and a cute little baby. Unfortunately, we're not out of the woods yet, and I am technically supposed to be working right now...but I need a break. So I give you: Grover Family Easter 2012, in which Hollie wears a frou-frou hair bow (for ten minutes) and Emily learns to tie an Easter bow for the first time without her mom's assistance (also lasted for ten minutes).
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| Our loot! Hollie got a Hello Kitty Easter basket that her Grandma Hollie picked out for her while she was in town (pictures of that soon. I love my mom and miss her dearly. *sigh* It is hard to be away from my family sometimes). The gorgeously wrapped-and-ribboned stack of book-and-game-shaped presents is to me from Davey (he even stamped the paper all cute with our bird stamps and label-makered my name to the top. *swoon!*). The handkerchiefs-shaped present is from me to David. |
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| After church on Sunday, we somehow managed to invite eleven big people and five little people to our house and get them all fed (with some pot luck help, of course). My contribution was this Boston Cream Pie. It looks sloppy, but I have to admit I was pretty proud of it. David helped me to "render" the egg mixture of the cream—it was a first for both of us, but super fun. |
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| Then, we tie-dyed eggs! Check out this awesome blog to see how you can, too! This is a new Easter tradition for the Grovers. |
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| The end results! |
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| Buzz-Buzz-Buzz, I'm a bumbley egg. |
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| Look at gorgeous red. Fire engine art deco. |
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| I love how the paisley showed up so clearly here. |
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| I wish this one had had more contact with the silk to cover more of the egg. So rad. I can't wait to try this again next Easter. I'm on the lookout for terribly gaudy and bold silk ties all year long in the meantime. |
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| My favorite egg. It looks like stained glass with little yellow paisleys. I can't wait until Hollie is old enough to understand how magical tie-dying eggs is! |
7 comments:
Hollie looks BEAUTIFUL in her purple easter dress! I've never seen tie-dyed easter eggs like that before but they are gorgeous! I'm not much as a decorator but I think a framed photo of the one of them all together would be a beautiful easter decoration and a great way to enjoy them for years to come.
Those eggs and your first born are heaven! Like hang on a wall heaven. The eggs, like art. Crap... that sounds just as ridiculous as hanging a baby on a wall. love you to the moon and back!
Love the eggs!
I love it the picture of you and Hollie! So precious!
What do the ties look like after? Those are really cool eggs!
Rachel, the ties are doomed. You have to cut them up. And they have to be 100% silk. Dave and I went to the thrift store and bought ten bucks worth of terrible ties and then tossed the scraps (though apparently they can be re-used for less-colorful future dyes). When you first cut into the ties there IS a brief sense of wild-child rebelliousness that is pretty thrilling and also a little shameful. That's part of the fun, in my opinion.
Yes! I love everything about this post: the gifts to each other, the cutest little Hollie, the EGGS! I am copying you for next year and will be looking for silk ties at the D.I. henceforth.
As for the semester . . . hang in there, girl! Whew, I am sure it is tough in more ways than one.
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