Easter was a holiday like Thanksgiving for Chandler in Friends for me in Hungary, until I moved away. I find the Hungarian Easter tradition unfair, and it's literally everything that I hate. The Hungarian boys learn little poems for Easter, and they recite these when they visit the girls. They go in a group from house to house and ‘sprinkle’ the girls with water to make sure they become good wives and bear many children. This called (locsolás). Nowadays instead of water, they use cheap perfumes. So, women end up smelling like toxic overload by the end of the day. And the worst thing? Women have to give eggs, these used to be handmade painted eggs nowadays chocolate eggs to the boys for the sprinkle. Younger boys also receive money with their chocolate eggs. It's maybe me, but I can't stand this, and I always hated since I was a kid. I remember when I used to hide in the closet from my brothers. Happily, those days are over, and now I live in a country where Easter is fun for women as well as men. No "sprinkle", and chocolate eggs for both genders. Read my blog post about feminism, here.
So, that's said let's decorate some Easter eggs. Carl and I usually prepare for Easter together. He gets the dirty job to blow out the eggs, and he prepares them for me so I can decorate them. (haha) Marble has been such a huge trend for the past year. Phone cases, stationery, cushions and of course marble print on clothes. I'm also a massive fan of this print. This is why I picked dipped marble eggs for our Easter decoration this year. I owe a huge thank your for stylemepretty for the inspiration for these pretty Easter eggs.
Let's get started.
What you will need:
Hardboiled or Blown-Out Eggs
Grape Juice
White Vinegar
Paper towel
Gold paint
STEP 1: Put some hard-boiled or blown-out eggs in a large bowl. If you go with hard-boiled, keep in mind these eggs will not be edible. If you picked blown out eggs, you would need to place something on top of the bowl to keep the eggs covered in the dye.
STEP 2: Fill the bowl with equal parts of grape juice and vinegar, enough to submerge the eggs.
STEP 3: Let sit overnight.
STEP 4: Remove the eggs from the vinegar and grape juice mix and gently pat away the foam with a paper towel.
STEP 5: Dip the eggs partially into a cup of gold paint. Place upside-down in the egg carton to dry, or you can either dip a small cloth into a bowl of gold paint and pat the eggs with it.
Let them dry 4-6 hours.
STEP 6: Place them in a bowl and put it on your table. Perfect decoration for Easter.
Additional: You can also use paint spray and golden leaves on a couple of eggs that you don't want to dip in the grape mixture, it will make a nice mix with the marble eggs when you place them in the bowl.
How do you decorate your Easter eggs this year?
What's the tradition during Easter where you live?
