easter

There's hardly anything cuter than a spring chick and my daughter and I are kind of obsessed with them right now. Grab your sprinkles and join us.

Well, the girl and I are always looking for fun things to do and we thought - it's not too early to get started on some Easter projects, is it? Okay, the truth is we were just looking for an excuse to eat marshmallows, jelly beans and frosting all in one mouthful. We found it in these marshmallow chicks.

I love Easter candy but with a two-year-old in the house we suddenly have way more Easter candy than any person should attempt to eat. My downfall (those evil Cadbury people) are the Cadbury Mini Eggs. I thought if I crushed them and put them into cookies I might slow down my consumption.

About a week ago, Lynn had something on the website about a chef who was deep frying Cadbury Eggs. We thought, "we can do that!" and, boy, are we glad we did. They were so awesome that you may see us selling them this summer at the Minnesota State Fair - on a stick!

This technique didn't work exactly like they said it would but we think they're pretty cool. The Melted Crayon Eggs are another good way to dye eggs with your kids.

My daughter, Elena, and I spent the weekend dyeing Easter Eggs to see what worked. We're hitting you with our favorite technique first so you have plenty of time to tackle it before Easter. The Tissue Paper Dyed Easter Egg is the way to go if you have small children and want pretty eggs with little mess.

My chickens are busy gals, laying over a dozen eggs every day. They lay a beautiful blue-shelled egg that would look great in any Easter basket but what if we took things up a notch? I heard you could use onion skins as a dye so I gave it a try. Here’s how to do it.