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post #21 of 26
3/21/11 at 9:38am

Pardon my dumb question..... You do have to have white eggs to dye, right? Our chickens all lay varying colors of brown eggs, no white. 

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post #22 of 26
3/21/11 at 12:52pm

You don't have to have white...but the colours will be different.  White ones make the most vivid results.

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post #23 of 26
3/22/11 at 12:29pm

We always dye the eggs the night before and we use brown eggs

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post #24 of 26
4/16/11 at 7:56am

Sometime the week before.  We like to dye with natural ingredients, so this gives us some time to experiment and try new plants each year.  Lots of fun to see what colors come up with fruits, herbs and veggies!  We also grow some Easter grass a couple of weeks before to display the eggs out of wheat, kamut, lentil, barley and other grains.

 

Jennifer

Married to Rick 17 years, Son 14, Daughter 11, Son 7 and Baby #4 due 10/11!

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post #25 of 26
4/16/11 at 8:57am

We adults do a few the night before to put in the kids easter baskets and to hide for the hunt and if we happen to have a hill near by to use for the great egg roll. Then the kids do more at our spring party, which is almost always on Easter Sunday.  But DS loves the colored eggs, so we usually save some of the dye tablets for making marbled eggs throughout the year.

 

I have never heard that eggs were a symbol of the resurrection and I used to go church a lot as a kid, even catholic church.  They are about as Christian to me as a chocolate Easter Bunny.  Who knew? 

 

Eggs were a traditional symbol of fertility in Pagan culture.  The majority of the symbolism associated with Easter were traditionally pagan symbols, the Eggs, the Rabbit, the baskets of plenty, even the name (possibly taken from the goddess of Spring, Eostre).  All of these long predate the conversion of the European heathens by the catholic church. (http://www.thercg.org/books/ttooe.html#c) I'm just saying.

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post #26 of 26
4/18/11 at 7:28am
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Originally Posted by heket View Post

Can I answer as a pagan?  We like to do it the night before, but that means March 19 this year as we celebrate Ostara/ Spring Equinox.


us too.

 

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