Aren’t these eggs adorable!? This year I decorated the eggs with garden greenery. It’s really easy if you are patient and don’t care if they are perfect, ha ha. I picked fern, ivy, clover, and tiny oak leaves and went to town. All you need are boiled eggs, dye, small leaves or flowers, and old hosiery. Place the leaves on the eggs, wrap them tightly in the hose, then dunk. Let them soak as long as you want, the darker eggs probably sat for 30+ minutes. If they don’t turn out just tie dye them by soaking in multiple colors, they look really pretty like that too.
Decorating for Easter is such fun I love all the baby animals and pastels!
Thank you Pink Girl for all the lovely Easter goodies! Your finch eggs are so precious! I hope we can take your new baby finches in a few weeks!!!
For our Easter dinner we had pasta primavera with fresh farmers market veggies, ham, and delicious homemade strawberry cake, recipe courtesy of my mom’s college sorority little sister.
April photo a day challenge #photoadayapril
Day 7} Shadow~In my makeup drawer. I really should try some new colors in this palette.
Day 8} Inside your wallet~Babysitting cash is officially gone. Anyone want to book me this month? 
Hope you are all having a wonderful Easter hunting eggs, eating yummy food, or maybe just hanging out in pjs online shopping. Mad Men again tonight!! Who else is watching!?
Have a bright Easter!
bright girl
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up with the March photo a day challenge you can catch up on my blog archive below. You can also check out Twitter hashtag #marchphotoaday and be sure to check out Fat Mum Slim who started the photo a day craze. Lots of fun!
March Photo A Day
23}Moon~This particular moon is one of my favorites and brings me back to some great memories. Taking the vaporetti back to the train station in Venezia. What a great crescent moon! Glad I got to see Venice before it heads out to sea!
24}An animal~Well I know it’s springtime when I’m rescuing animals from my personal rodent exterminators. This particular day it was a chipmunk, not unlike the one pictured below. Stellaluna also got frisky the other day and decided to climb a tree and frantically converse with a birdie.
25}Breakfast~I love cereal and have a Seinfeld-esque collection at all times. Today…this.
26}Key~trinkets in a dish
27}Your name~Part of my name.
28}Trash~Today Stella discovered plastic bags. She’s not quite sure if she should be really excited or really scared.
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Week in review!
Thursday~Had some delicious roasted beet salad and sweet potato fries for dinner.
Saturday~Girls day. Shopping with mom and out to dinner at one of my favs, Thaicoon, on the Marietta Square. A little Kendall-Jackson chardonnay, Tempura sushi, Masaman curry, and pineapple fried rice. YUUUMMM!!
Ended a night of Thai with a cuppa Chai!
Spent a day purging my closets and reorganizing my drawers. Went through my nail polish and tossed a few. I think I’ll reorganize them with testers for future use! What colors should I get next? Hmm.
After cleaning and purging…MAD MEN SEASON 5 PREMIERE! It’s been almost 2 years since season 4 ended. So glad it’s finally back! Who else tuned in? I’ve been there since the beginning so I know it’s definitely going to be an interesting season, especially after Don and Megan’s crazy behavior Sunday. Here is Megan doing her own version of Happy Birthday for Don at his surprise party, “Everyone’s going to go home from this and they’re going to have sex.” She knew what she was doing.
Stella up a tree after chattering with the birds.
Dinner last night. Ribs, BP, and tomato salad. I used a Real Simple recipe and added cucumber and basil. It would be really good with feta and even mixed into another salad.
Came home tonight and found more of my old children’s books. Cleaned them up and reorganized my children’s lit shelves. They are coming in very handy at work now! Story time brings me back!
Well I’m settling in for the night. Hope everyone is having a great week! Happy Hump Day! It’s almost Friday, counting down.
Have a bright day!
Bright Girl
