Your Greeness

“Dyeing” for some wonderful color on your Easter eggs? It’s possible to make different hues using ordinary products! Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get these simple colors!

Red

You can use Pomegranate juice and lots of red onion skins. Maybe you can ask some from your local produce guy? Boil with the eggs for 1/2 to 1 hour. Red wines without the vinegar are also a good alternative.

Pink

Grated beets, cranberries or cranberry juice, raspberries, grape juice, juice from pickled beets, crushed red currants can all be used to get a rosy hue.

Violet- blue

Soak eggs overnight in hot water with some crushed violet, pansy or geranium blossoms.

Blue and Lavender

Try using purple pansies, violets, or grape juice. For a darker shades, go for frozen, fresh or canned blueberries, blackberries with their juice.

Yellow or Gold

Boil Orange or lemon peels , carrot tops , celery seed , ground cumin , ground turmeric. Note that these aren’t to be boiled all together! You can boil any one of these ingredients! If you want to utilize turmeric, add 1-2 tsps of the ir and 1 sp white vinegar to a cup of hot water.

Green

Add 1/4 teaspoon baking soda to a bowl of “violet blue” colored water before soaking the eggs. Try soaking the eggs in boiled spinach water or liquid chlorophyll (available at natural food stores).

Brown

Use a mixture of 3 tablespoons instant coffee and 1/2 teaspoon vinegar with some hot water. Boiled back walnuts shells will also result in a nice brown shade.

Don’t use up paper in wrapping gifts! Get creative, and save some trees! Plus, the recipients will totally be pleasantly surprised!

1.Instead of using paper, why not wrap bottles of wine in dish towels? Just tie it up with a little ribbon and you are good to go!

2. Instead of using bows for a huge gift, make a bow out of a jump rope. The kids will especially appreciate this idea because they’ll have an extra gift in the jump rope!

3.Tie up your gifts with scrunchies or pony tail holders. This will work best for a fast fix and if you’re not a very good bow tier!

4.Use old newspapers as wrapping paper- If you want some color, why not use the cartoon section. You will save up so much money from wrapping paper!

5.Reuse old greeting cards for gift tags. Simply cut the nice picture or part of the card, and punch a whole! It’s so much better than throwing it away!