My sister Ronda has one granddaughter, Memphis, who is about the same age as Lilly. We have a tradition of getting the girls together for some kind of craft activity during their school breaks at Easter, and during Christmas.
With all the excitement of the four of us in a room, the two girls calling, "Aunt Rita", "Grandma", "Aunt Ronda", "Grandma"... it can get confusing.
So, on these special occasions -- the girls call us "Grant Rita"and "Grant Ronda". (a combination of Grandma and Aunt -- clever, eh?)
On this day -- our plan was to do one of those goofy craft projects off Facebook (or was it Pinterest?). You wrap an egg in an old silk tie -- boil it -- and the egg takes on the color from the tie.
What could go wrong, eh??
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| A goofy picture of Lilly -- but these are the two silk ties we had to work with. We cut them in pieces, soaked them in water, and the girls wrapped them around the raw eggs... |
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| Then, they wrapped white strips of t-shirt fabric around them...and tied the whole show with string... |
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| Into a pot of boiling vinegar water for 30 minutes... |
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| Grant Ronda...we were waiting for the water to boil... |
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| THEN THIS HAPPENED... |
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| It was a huge success. |
Now I have to be on the lookout for some small print brightly colored silk ties for next year!!
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