Dyeing Eggs with homemade dye Part II

In my previous post I stated that I made 5 colors.  The green didn't work AT ALL.  I put an egg in the green dye and left it in for over 3 hours and there was still no color.  So, mental note...don't try spinach again next year.  I even added some broccoli for good measure while I was boiling.  Oh well.   Perhaps by next Easter I will find a plant that has a stronger green color that might work.


Anyway...here are what the dyes looked like:

Here are what the eggs turned out like:

I thought they turned out quite nice for my first try.  Next year...for the brown I would definitely use coffee instead of tea.  I think it would be a nicer color.  But I really liked the blueberry blue and the beet pink!!  The paprika orange is nice because it is kinda streaky looking...just a little different from the norm.  It's interesting at least!  ; )

It was fun and I enjoyed it.  I will certainly do it again next year!  It was worth the extra effort.

Dyeing Eggs with homemade dye Part I

One of the blogs I follow had a this wonderful tutorial or recipe for making homemade dye for Easter Eggs.  As eggs are pourous, it only makes sense that we should be mindful of what we dye them with (if they will be consumed afterward, like at my house).  So I was excited to try.  I made the dyes this afternoon.  We will be dyeing eggs this evening after my husband gets home.  I will post later with pictures of how the eggs turned out with the colors I chose.

I did the following colors with the following ingredients:

Brown - Black Tea
Green - Spinach leaves and broccoli
Orange - Paprika
Pink - homemade canned beets
Blue - fresh blueberries

Wish me luck!

CA Healthcare Craziness

The health insurance coverage I am currently on is ridiculous!  I will withhold the name of the heath insurance for multiple reasons.  It covers my all my Dr. visits to my OBGYN (Dr. Leslie) which is good and I am grateful.  However, the hospital where she delivers has just recently stopped taking my insurance so she can't deliver my son!!  I'm not kidding.  I can see her,  but I cannot go to her hospital (which also happens to be the closest one to my home).

I will be able to continue to see her until week 37 at which time I will have to go to another Dr. (also covered by my insurance) in order to be delivered by that Dr. at a hospital which takes my insurance.

Here's the real kicker.  I have been told by someone in the medical field (again, withholding names) the following information about maternity and the California HIPPA laws.  I have not verified this with any research as of yet, so please don't take this as the gospel truth...just what I was told.

Apparently, regardless of the type of insurance you have...if a pregnant women checks in to a hospital ER contracting regularly and in pain, they cannot transfer her to another hospital.  Hmmmmm...interesting.  So, even though the hospital where I WANT to deliver my baby will not take my insurance and therefore will not schedule a c-section for me, I can walk into the ER with steady contractions (and in pain which goes hand in hand) and they have NO CHOICE but to deliver my baby either by VBAC or c-section anyway.  Last minute and unplanned.  That HAS to be more expensive?!?!?

Interesting....ridiculous, but interesting.  It's no wonder our health care system is going down the tubes.  None of this makes any sense!