Decorating Easter eggs turned out to be the perfect stay-at-home Easter activity for me this year. I went a little crazy, decorating 52 eggs total! Needless to say, my parents and I will be eating hard-boiled eggs for awhile! My mom also used several of them in her seven layer salad recipe, a favorite Easter dish of mine. This year I used a Paas Deluxe egg decorating kit ordered online from Target that contained nine different colors of dye, and an American Crafts Easter Rabbit egg decorating kit shipped from Paper Source that reminded me so much…
I’ve always wanted to try marbling paper, because it looks so pretty. When I saw the samples for the Marbling Workshop at Indianapolis’ Paper Source store, I recruited my friend Wendie to take the class with me. We love Paper Source workshops, and have attended several in the past. Marbling uses plain paper or any other absorbent material like fabric or wood, to pick up swirled ink designs from a water bath. It dates back to twelfth century Japan, where it is called Suminagashi (“floating ink”). During the class, we created hand-marbled papers in…