Happy Easter 2021 - Pt. 2 - Edmonton Family Lifestyle Photographer

Thanks for making it to part two of our Easter egg decorating adventure! If you make it to the end, you’ll be able to see our whole collection of Easter eggs this year.

When my kids were smaller, decorating eggs felt like a bit of an ordeal. We had to put the paper down, have lots of cloths to wipe up messes, and help them make sure they didn’t spill the jars of dye. Now that they’re older, it’s really nice to just sit with them and watch them take the creative lead and do their own thing. They both have their own way and style of doing things.

We were lucky enough to have been gifted some farm fresh eggs this year. They are too beautiful to put in the dye, but look wonderful set out on the table. I had been holding off on eating them the week before so we would have them to enjoy for the Easter holidays.

So, we also picked up some mini egg donuts. I wasn’t kidding when I said we tried to make things fun for the kids… may have went a bit overboard on the sugar. (Luckily the Easter Bunny got the memo and didn’t bring them too much chocolate today.)

BUT - I had to see these donuts in person. I had been seeing funny videos online of people getting these from Tim Horton’s and them looking nothing like they were supposed to. We got lucky, and they looked great - and tasted pretty good too.

A couple photos up you can kiiiiiind of see he’s missing a couple teeth on the bottom. The second one fell out yesterday, so it was a double visit last night from both the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. He was pretty stoked about that.

Every Easter I make a point of having some Tulips on the table. I find they just bring happiness with them after a long, dreary winter. The first sign of light and spring colours in my mind.

And finally, our collection of eggs for this year. We made a lot, but they will get eaten over the course of the week for sure. I think these are some of my favourites yet. Every year they seem to get brighter and more fun.

Thanks again for following along with us this year. It was a long, cold, isolating winter and it felt nice to grab my camera again for myself. I am hoping to catch up and share more here on my blog too in the near future.

Hope you all have/had a wonderful, safe Easter this year.

-Meg

Happy Easter 2021 - Pt. 1 - Edmonton Family Lifestyle Photographer

Well, it’s been a hot minute since I have last blogged. Easter this year in Edmonton, Alberta is looking a little different for the second year in a row with all of the restrictions still in place here, but we still tried to keep it fun for the kids. Like every year, they always have a lot of fun painting Easter eggs.

A couple of years ago we picked up the “Eggmazing” egg decorator. It comes with markers, and you place the egg in it, and it spins it for you while you hold the markers to add fun stripes. It’s our favourite. You could easily bypass the need for using traditional liquid dye if you wanted to! We still do both - for variety, and because you can get some really amazing colours if you dye the eggs first and then add the stripes after. Highly recommend.

Just a note that I’ve split this post into two to ensure the photos load properly - there will be a link to go to the next post at the bottom. You can see our completed collection of colourful Easter eggs at the end of the second post.

We used white and brown eggs this year. We found the brown eggs worked way better with giving beautiful rich colours with both the liquid dye and the Eggmazing markers.

Another thing we tried was putting some rice into a Ziploc bag and adding food colouring, then dunking your egg in and mixing it around. The rice adds some speckles to the eggs. It worked OKAY, but wasn’t anything to write home about. We’ll probably skip it next time.

Check out that last image - our dye kit came with some gold paint to apply with a sponge. It worked really well with giving either a light shimmer, or thicker golden stripes. It looked really neat on the darker blue and green eggs - those were my faves.

I’ve split this post into two so click on to the next post here!