Happy Easter, Eostre to All That Celebrate

Happy Easter to everyone that is celebrating today.  For me it brings memories of Easter eggs, the smell of vinegar and Paas Dye kits.  How I loved dying Easter eggs.  The vibrant colors, the wax crayons, the surprise as they came out of the dye baths…those shaky little wire contraptions that came with the kits so flimsy when used that soon gave way to spoons !  Oh my!

Although associated with Christianity today, Easter eggs predate that religion going back to pagan rituals and the coming of Spring.  Eggs being of course a sign of fertility and renewal.  Some scholars believe that the pagan customs were adopted by priests and other Christian heads of that religion to help convert the population.  Whether true or not, the brightly coloring of the eggs started in the past in Medieval Europe and Asia.

I still see those kits in the store but people have clued me into egg spinners, natural leaf prints (so cool), tie dyed eggs (hey, man), Cool Whip eggs (need to investigate that one), plus so many more options plus the whole natural dyes that involve onion skins!

Leaf Print Eggs

 

Cool Whip Eggs

 

Tie dyed eggs!

Is it too late for an adult to get into the action without kids? lol.  These make me want to grab for several cartons of eggs and have at it.  Plastic eggs or the thought of them just don’t do it for me.

Anyway, it’s short, colorful and sweet this week.  Happy Easter to all who are celebrating.  Happy Egg Coloring and Egg Finding!  Happy Eostre and Happy Spring!

Greek Easter eggs dyed with onion skins

This Week at Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words

Sunday, April 21:

• BLOG TOUR Thirst For You by Jaclyn Quinn
• Release Blitz How to Heal by Susan Hawke
• This Week at Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words

Monday, April 22:

• Review Tour – Wrong Way Home – K.A. Merikan
• Review Tour – Ruby Moone – Finding Finlay (MC Securities #2)
• Release Blitz – The Gathering Storm by Tricia Owens
• An Alisa Review : Finding Finlay (MC Securities #2) by Ruby Moone
• A VVivacious Review: Don’t Fight the Spark by Kasia Bacon
• A Chaos Moondrawn Review: Wrong Way Home by K.A. Merikan
• A MelanieM Review: Descendant by Mychael Black

Tuesday, April 23:

• Release Blitz Crossing The Touchline – Jay Hogan
• Release Blitz – Avery Cockburn – Play Hard
• BLITZ Destructive Forces by Harry F. Rey
• An Alisa Review: For the Love of a Unicorn (Legendary Shifters #1) by Catherine Lievens
• A Lila Release Day Review: Innocence & Carnality by J. Alan Veerkamp
• A Barb the Zany Old Lady Release Day Review: Burden (Love, Unexpected #2) by KC Wells
• A Barb the Zany Old Lady Release Day Review:The Doctor’s Secret (Copper Point Medical #1) by Heidi Cullinan

Wednesday, April 24:

• Release Blitz  for Montana Sky (Montana #6) – RJ Scott
• Release Blitz for Love Is A Walk In The Park by V.L. Locey & Stephanie Locey
• TOUR Mucklucked” by James Brock
• BLITZ Where Song Replaces Silence by Layla Dorine
• An Alisa Review:How Not to Break (Lovestrong #3) by Susan Hawke
• A MelanieM Review: Upside Down by NR Walker
• A Lila Review: Love, Again by H.D. Nels