Christiana Childers Photography Blog

This weekend we took a little trip down to Portland to visit my cousin Ruthie.  Isn’t she the cutest?!We had a big time.  Portland is too cool!  Here’s a sampling from the weekend -

Also Ruth taught me a new way to dye eggs and you know how much I love eggs!  Here are some photos of the process -

First you peel some onion skins off of purple and yellow onions and then soak them in water.  We also did purple cabbage but it didn’t work too well so I wouldn’t recommend it.

Then you wrap the egg in skins -

You then roll up the eggs in some clean scrap cloth.

Bind the whole thing up in rubber bands and boil like you would hard boiled eggs-

And the result! -

Cool, huh?!

I love doing Ukrainian eggs at Easter.  I haven’t pulled all my stuff out for this year but I wanted to display mine and the girls eggs from previous years but I’m running out of ways to display them.  Whenever we find real bird’s nests I keep them for this reason but I still don’t have enough nests!  So I got the idea to make some out of shredding some books.  It was really easy and worked better than I hoped!

I started by shredding up an old book (one that I’ve been using for some of my other projects).  I found some bowls I thought would make nice nest shapes and then covered them with plastic wrap.

I just used a little bit of flour and water and started adding strips to the flour mixture and then placed them over the bowls.

It was about here that I thought, “Yeah, this is never going to work…”  But it did!  I just left them to dry and they popped right off and made beautiful nests.  Here are some photos of my eggs…

I found these sand blasted glass eggs at a garden store.  I thought they looked cute in a couple of the real nests that we had found.

I’m sure I’ll be posting more about eggs soon!  Happy Easter everyone!

I went for a walk on Alki Beach today with Blue.  Despite being freezing cold, I had a rather good time.  But what put a smile on my face was when I went to Alki Bakery for a quick coffee to warm me up, I saw the cup of crayons and the paper for the kids and decided to have my coffee to stay.  I drew my picture of a tree and then decided, “What the heck!  I’m hanging it up with the kids pictures.”  I decided Mia had a bit too much real estate with her butterflies!  

Move over Mia….here comes Christiana…

Now for the shot you’d expect from your photographer -

Sure it’s all dark and interesting.  But it didn’t make me giggle like the drawing of the tree did!