Pisanki are generic name for all kind of coloured, decorated eggs that are indispensable part of any Polish Easter table.

There is many ways do them, this year I was decorating eggs in traditional ways with wax, lace, mostly natural dyes and crochet while kids were using non-toxic felt tip pens (image below).

We still haven’t try all the methods so there is couple more things we would like to try, maybe next year:

• sticking ribbons and beads,
• dyeing eggs in stockings with leaves and cut-outs inside,
• sticking thread around,
• painting the eggs with non-toxic paint as I used to do as a child,
• sticking coloured paper or rolled tissue paper.

And how do you decorate Easter eggs in your part of the Wolrd?

Skrobanki (drapanki) – naturally dyed and scratched eggs.

Easter eggs decorated with crayons.

Woskowe pisanki – wax & onion shell dyed eggs.

Eggs wrapped in two tone crochet egg covers.

And a little bit less traditional pisanki done with wax crayon (eye liner) and food colouring.

Naturally dyed Easter eggs using different colours of onion.

Szydełkowe pisanki – crochet covered eggs.

Kraszanki – naturally dyed eggs, usually plain or decorated with very little detail like those lace pattern eggs (below) or scratched eggs (above).

I hope that you are enjoying holidays despite the weather, cold and snowy in some parts of UK and Poland, and secretly wish that I will wake up tomorrow to beautiful sunny morning… Happy Spring Everyone!

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