Winter is Staying :P

[oloriel]

I am done with almost all the Easter preparations, aside from the gifts for relations & neighbours.
You really kind of have to remind yourself that it's Easter you're preparing for - not Christmas. (Actually, we had no snow and +9°C around Christmas...)


So I dyed some eggs (and some wool while I was at it) with plants. The green (and very light green) is hollyhock blossoms (collected them all summer long last year!); it was supposed to be blue, but when the infusion gets too hot, it turns to green. Obviously, it got too hot. The nice copper is good old onion peels, and the sickly lilac (egg)/interesting fire-colours (wool) is beetroot. Last year, I got a nice pink with beetroot. Am disappointed this year!



Oh well, all in a basket like this, it looks reasonably nice and colourful. :P


And then I made chocolate "eggs". Pistacchio, vanilla/caramel cookie crumbs, almond/dark chocolate/chili. The vanilla/caramel cookie crumb ones were supposed to be just vanilla, but it turned out too runny so I ran some cookies through the almond mill and put those in. Fortunately, it worked. (Otherwise I'd just have had very expensive white Nutella... :P)


Meanwhile: Still not Spring. Felix insists on going outside anyway. That's my boy!


My poor bees! ;_; I hope they aren't killing themselves over this return of winter. They're breeding already, so now is a critical time and I can't even help them. *flails*


On the plus side: The snowdrops normally never stay pretty for so long :P


*~To boldly go where no toddler has gone before!~* Or at least, no Felix. Or not our Felix, anyway. You know what I mean.


YOU CAN'T TAKE MY SPRING FROM ME!!! - Of course, I'm being overdramatic. We've had snowy Easters before. But on the last snowy Easter pics I took, at least there were daffodils already. So we must've had a couple of warm weeks before that. Now... just a couple of days in early March. And that has made all the difference...


And this concludes this picspam. Must try to get gifts finished now.

Comments

[barbardin.livejournal.com]

Der Felix! So groß schon! Ich habe den immer noch als Säugling im Hinterkopf. Langsam wird einem klar, wieso man als Kind immer zu hören bekommen hat, man sei ja soooo viel gewachsen.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Ja, ich hab ewig keine aktuellen Bilder mehr gepostet, kein Wunder, dass es dir da geht wie früher den alten Tanten ;) Selbst mir geht's schon so, wenn ich mir z.B. die Fotos von Weihnachten anschaue...

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I love the colors of your eggs! Very elegant and understated. The yarn is great too. I never thought of making chocolate eggs. I was thinking of a coconut cake right before I looked at your pics. And wondering what to do about the decoration. Dying some coconut a pale green for a nest seemed like a no brainer--but what to use to make eggs to put in the nest?

Anyway, never mind me thinking aloud again!

I adore little Felix in the snow with his very spiffy Wellingtons. He looks amazing and all pink-cheeked. What beautiful pictures despite the pesky snow.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Elegant and understated! I like that description XD
For the eggs - either chocolate (melt, add some butter and cream to make it malleable, let it harden, cut out little chunks and roll them into eggs) or marzipan (which can also be coloured wildly)?

Well, it's not just snowy, but also cold... (At least, the water in the rain barrel actually turned liquid today! It's an early Easter miracle! :P)

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

It's an early Easter miracle! :P)

I am grasping at straws now for anything that foreshadows brighter days to come! The sun just peeped from behind a cloud for about 90 seconds and is gone again!

[sermanya.livejournal.com]

natural colors? i was dreaming about it, but then, it seemed to be less stressy with mom around and everything and I kept with good old chemicals. next year, maybe. :)

love the pictures. wonderful snow, kid pictures make me go aaaawwww

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Yep; I've loved using them, on and off, since my teenage years. In the past couple of years (since I realised that now I am the lady of the house who decides such things! ;)) I've only used these colours - always onion peels, sometimes beetroot, sometimes elder juice, spinach/stinging nettles (but there's no sign of those yet, this year! :/).
Chemicals? Most store-bought egg colours use natural agents, too. Of course, those are technically chemical in the first place... Vinegar is vinegar, and anthocyans are anthocyans, whether they come in hollyhock flowers or a little pill. ;)

Wonderful snow... if only we hadn't had it so often by now! :P