One of the awesome things about Easter is that you can get egg dying kits for dirt cheap this afternoon and tomorrow!  We're talking 4/$1.00 or less!!  Do you know how much wool you can dye with that??  For those of you who don't want to deal with or invest in the expensive and more troublesome professional acid dyes, this is a great way to get your creativity moving and do your own colorful wools and yarns! 


(Picture borrowed from Deer Run Sheep Farm)
 
I found a couple of great instructions for you to get you started.   
 
The first is from Deer Run Sheep Farm.   You can visit Jim & Martha online or at their farm in West Virginia to pick up some beautiful Coopworth for your wooly projects!  Their tutorial is very simple and easy, and tells you how to dye your clean, raw wools with Easter egg dye! 

The second is from WoolFestival.com and gives a great little tutorial on several different methods for dyeing yarns with Easter egg dyes.

Both should give you some really great ideas for safe, easy, non-toxic and even kid friendly ways to use Easter egg dyes to color up your wools and yarns!  Have fun!

Now, I said that discounted Easter egg dyes for your wool was one of the awesome things about Easter, but there's something else that's even more awesome…. The very most awesome thing about Easter is what it really means, and that is that we have a way to be free of the not so awesome things of this world, and even the not so awesome things within ourselves through the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross.  Today represents Christ' defeat of death - yes, even death! - through His resurrection.  If even death can be defeated through His power, there is nothing in this world that can't also be overcome through Him.  I won't preach a sermon, but if you happen to want to know more, I'd be glad to tell you more about it and have a conversation with you on the matter.  You know how to reach me.

I hope you all have a great Easter!