by Laura Falin posted in Life & Home

We dye Easter eggs every year. They've run the spectrum from strange color combinations and stickers everywhere that make our eggs look almost inedible, to beautiful, colorful eggs with fancy designs on them. I never know what we're going to get.
It always seems like a shame, in the years we have beautiful eggs, to just eat them afterward. All that work and artistry and -- bam! Egg salad sandwich. But what are the alternatives" If I tried to save them, they'd just start smelling funny. I could hollow them out and keep them, I suppose, but the kids are still little enough that they're going to break those eggs in about 3 minutes. So we dye them and admire them...and then have them for lunch. Then we do it all again next spring. It's the circle of life.
This year, we tried a few different ways to dye our eggs. We did some the way we always do, with the tablets you get at the store:

Two pieces of advice, if you're going to do your basic egg dyeing -- the back of the box says you can use vinegar or water to dissolve your color tablets. If you want bright, vibrant colors, always go vinegar. It just makes everything pop. Also, leave the eggs in the color for way longer than you think.

Drop them in their cups or bowls, take the kids and go read a book or do something else together for 10 minutes or so. We always pull ours out too soon, because the kids are excited, and they end up some nice, light pastel colors. Which is fine, but if y...