Easter Blues

When my children were young, it was a tradition in the house to dye Easter eggs on Good Friday. Now that they're grown with families of their own, I decided I would quickly dye a dozen for the center of the table for Easter dinner. Wanting to keep it simple, I used food coloring from the cupboard and a little vinegar. I'm not sure what I did right or wrong but I really liked the tie dye look that they took on.

In trying to make them look like speckled eggs I spattered on a little acrylic paint.

 

A few yellow tulips from the grocery store and my Easter centerpiece was complete.

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter.

Texture Tuesday

This weeks challenge at Kim Klassen's is to use her new texture Simplicity. I think I picked the wrong photo for the texture and settled on using it in the background only using the brush to erase it off the flower petals.  After the texture was applied I did some lighting of the flower centers with curves in photoshop.   It really has reinforced for me the that not all photos go with all textures, they should be carefully matched.  If you hover the mouse over the photo you'll see the before and after.

Christmas Luminaire

Thanks to my daughter and her Christmas decorating ideas I decided to make ice Luminaires for our deck railing  to light up on Christmas evening.  The idea was to place them in the snow that accumulates on the railing, but with the lack of snow I have to shovel the grass and place the snow on the deck.  First time I've ever shoveled the grass, but it was fun and I'll be trying it again next year with a few modifications.