Week 15

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Silk dying eggs

Materials List:

  • Eggs
  • 100% silk top, scarf, tie, fabric
  • light colored fabric (sheet, pillowcase, shirt)
  • scissors
  • string or yarn to tie fabric
  • stainless steal pot
  • water
  • 1/4 cup vinegar
  • cooling rack

1. Get eggs, I would suggest getting more than you want to end up with because some work better than others.  There could be an experimental period in this project where you forgot to look at the type of material and didn’t realize it wasn’t 100% silk (and they end up as plain white hard boiled eggs in the end).

2.  Go to the thrift store and get items that are 100% silk, such as ties, shirts, scarves, fabric… Make sure the fabric has some sort of design on it that can transfer.  Also it is very important that the fabric is 100% SILK otherwise it will not work.  * note to self:  not all ties are silk… I found that out the hard way…*  Also while you are at the thrift store or going through the fabric you already have get a light colored fabric also…this will be used later in the project, a sheet, pillowcase, shirt would work just fine.

3.  Cut your 100% silk fabric into a good size square that can easily go around your egg and be tied at the top.  Then you should cut the light colored fabric in a square as well.  Here are the two my husband and I decided to try first.

4.  Take one raw egg and put it in the silk, bring up the sides of the fabric to lay flat on the egg.  Do this as tight as you can without breaking the egg and tie at the top with yarn.  Having someone to help you on this step will help the silk stay tight while someone else ties the yarn.                                                                

5. Take the light colored fabric, like a sheet or old shirt, and wrap it around the silk.  This didn’t have to be as tight as the silk was because this is more so the inks don’t bleed onto other eggs.  Tie the fabric at the top again using yarn.

6. Place the eggs into the stainless steal pot and fill with water until the eggs are fully submerged.  Add in the 1/4 cup vinegar and turn heat up.  Start your timer as soon as the water and vinegar start to boil for about 22 minutes. 

7. After the timer is done take the eggs out and place onto the cooling sheet until cool to the touch.  Cut off the yarn and take away fabrics to see your beautiful masterpiece.

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Happy Easter

Such a good Easter this year.  It started off with all three of us getting some extra rest, much needed.  Getting ready for church in our Easter outfits and meeting Great Grandma and Grandma for the service.  Haddie does surprisingly well during the hour service, she only had a few excited outbursts when she opened her book and saw a baby chick. 

After church we went back home and tried to dye some eggs using an idea I saw on pinterest using silk ties and shirts.  Luckily Savers was open on Easter because I still needed to find silk to use for the project.  An hour and a half later I came home with 3 silk shirts, a few ties, and two purses…woops.  The purses will be in another post here shortly, I hope…  Anyways Brett and I gave Haddie a basket of plastic eggs to play with in the kitchen while we attempted to dye our eggs.  Check out HERE to see our egg dying experience and outcome.  Haddie loved her plastic eggs and was amazed at how far they rolled without pushing them too hard.  Then she would put them in the basket and dump them out and push them again and again.  After egg dying we got ready and headed out to Grandpa and Grandma Wells’ house for dinner and more fun.  Here are some pictures of the family on our amazing Easter!!!

 

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Week 14

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planning part 2………..

Here are a few more things I have been working on for Haddie’s first Brithday… sneak peak…

Dresser/ Buffet: Before

Dresser/ Buffet: After

“Lampshade”: Before

Lampshade: After

Fabric Banner: (dont have a before, but it was a collection of old fabric, sheets, scraps, even some fabric from my moms  flower girls from her wedding!!)

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Week 13

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Diamond Street Recycling at Boise Flower Home and Garden Show 2012

Went to visit Brett and Greg at the Boise Flower Home and Garden Show this past weekend. Diamond Street Recycling, my families business, had a booth there again this year.  Brett was in charge of decorations and putting it all together, with a little help from my mom and me.  Here are some of the pictures of their booth, the materials they sell, and our outing, which includes a little photo sesh with Grandma and Haddie in the alley downtown Boise.    Almost 100% of this display was recycled, doors, tin tubs, milk jugs, product stands, carpet, wine barrel, flyer stand, tin man, lawn mower, picked fence, chair… I made the green and white signs for the products for them using my amazing cricut machine, and made the stands out of recycled rocks and metal wire for them to stand in the mulch.  Brett and Greg working hard to spread the word about the products Diamond Street has to offer.  Aren’t they cute!                                                  Haddie loved the baby chicks they had at the booth next to Daddy’s!!                                                         Brett and I at lunch…

       

Training Haddie young to be a dumpster diver, like Mommy and Grandma.  “Reach for it Haddie, one mans trash is another mans (woman’s) treasure.”

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