Naturally dyed eggs

It's that time of the year for dyeing eggs.  After reading about all the harm that artificial dyes cause, I thought a post on dyeing with natural ingredients would be a great idea.  Though we're not getting around to dyeing, some friends of ours posted some beautiful pictures of their eggs, I had to ask if I could share them on the blog.  They are absolutely gorgeous. 

The photo credit goes to Anne Marie Forrester and she participated in making these lovely eggs.  She explains what was used to make these colors.

The terra-cotta colored eggs are boiled in a pot FILLED to the top with brown onion skins (and water), the green ones are boiled with 1/2 cup of Yerba Mate, the yellow ones are boiled with a handful of Tumeric, the lovely purple comes from 2 TBS of logwood, the blue ones were pre-boiled and soaked overnight in purple-cabbage water. We were also making hibicus-colored eggs after this photo was taken.