That PAAS kit has gotten more complicated. I can’t just follow the instructions–I have to choose which instructions to follow! Do I want pastel shades? Vibrant? “Traditional”? I’m not sure it really matters, though; the intensity didn’t seem to change much. And I’m still no good at creating designs with that little crayon. Can you tell which eggs have names or designs on them? Me, neither.
But it doesn’t matter to me in the slightest, because tomorrow I’ll get out of bed early, no matter how much I don’t want to, and get dressed enough to go into the yard and “hide” these eggs for Baguette’s first Easter egg hunt. I can’t wait.
Happy Easter, everyone!
I don’t think I’ve used PAAS since I was a kid. But it definitely didn’t seem as complicated then. All I want are dye tabs and nothing else. No stencils. No pastels. Just the basics.
It was very strange–choice A, use water; choice B, use water and lemon juice; choice C, use water and vinegar.
What I really want to do is use natural dyes, from foods, but I just didn’t have time this year. Hopefully next year!
I completely weenied out this year. We reused the plastic eggs the kids got at a church egg hunt.
Also a good solution. Baguette wouldn’t have had any idea how they worked, so we wouldn’t have had to fill them with anything.
We definitely didn’t fill them.
That’s why it works.
Yes, the PAAS has gotten more complicated. I had the same reaction to my three choices.Which I had to make only because I didn’t have time to do natural dyes. It is always my goal, but the only time I had leisure dying time was before I had kids. Now I was hard-pressed to even buy the kit before Easter. I found, with weeBots aged 2 and 3, that it really didn’t matter what color I envisioned the eggs would be….in the end, Gbot’s were a color that results from dropping eggs into first the orange, then the purple, then the green, and finally the yellow dye, and Mbot’s were colors that resulted in leaving the eggs in the dye for only sixty seconds due to impatience. I was just thrilled the floor under the kitchen table remained its original color.
I did all the dyeing this year, during Baguette’s nap. I think we’ll all color eggs together next year, and maybe then we’ll be able to do natural dyes. Or not. A little PAAS never killed anyone.
SMART woman, doing the dying all by yourself! Why didn’t I think of that?! And I agree. A little PAAS actually might be good for the soul.
Given how she approached the Easter egg hunt, I’m glad that I didn’t involve her in the dyeing this year.