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In this video, Martha Stewart shares her wealth of knowledge on creating stunning and unique Easter egg designs. From traditional dyed eggs to intricate patterns and textures, Martha's creativity knows no bounds. Elevate your Easter egg decorating game and bring a touch of Martha's signature style to your holiday celebrations. Get ready for a fun and crafty Easter with Martha Stewart's pro tips!
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00:00And what do you ladies think of that beautiful color?
00:17It's gorgeous.
00:18And there are our finalists right over there.
00:20Oh, excuse me.
00:25Oh God.
00:30Joey, get in the car.
00:31All right.
00:33Took me a long time to get my voice back.
00:34Mark, why don't you just sit here?
00:35Yeah, have a seat right there.
00:36You ready, Joe?
00:37Yeah.
00:37OK, here, let's do this.
00:38You want me to do this?
00:39Yeah.
00:40I'm going to do it?
00:41Oh, thank you.
00:42All right, here we go.
00:46All right.
00:47All right, well, I love making Easter eggs, so.
00:49Just read the prompter.
00:52Now, on today's show, another sign of spring is Easter.
00:55And since it's only a few weeks away,
00:57we invited our editorial director of holiday and crafts,
01:01Marcy McGoldrick, here to tell us.
01:03Slower.
01:06Please say hello to Marcy, everybody.
01:08Hi, so with marbleizing, what you do,
01:13we're gonna create different marbleized textures
01:15using oil and dye.
01:16So you're gonna take a plain egg.
01:20Plain egg, okay.
01:20You got one, too?
01:21I'm with you, okay.
01:22You got Martha's colors, you can do it.
01:24It's fine.
01:25All right.
01:26Okay, and we're gonna put it.
01:27Very good, you got a plain egg right here, okay.
01:28Yes, you're gonna stick it in the dye bath.
01:29The second step is, with marbleizing,
01:31you do two dye baths.
01:33The first dye bath is just a solid color,
01:34and then the second one has oil incorporated into it,
01:37and it doesn't mix with the dye,
01:38so it'll create a marbleized pattern on the egg.
01:40Okay.
01:41Breathe, guys.
01:41I know, I'm just worried about our host.
01:43I think she's okay.
01:45Okay.
01:47All right, tablespoon of vinegar.
01:48Okay, good.
01:51All right.
01:52In you go.
01:53Look at my hand, I'm gonna shake it.
02:09Watch me shake it.
02:10You scared the hell out of me.
02:12I have to go change myself now.
02:14Oh my God.
02:16Oh my goodness.
02:17Martha Stewart and her April Fool's prank on me, everybody.
02:21Here's a Martha Homeschool for you,
02:23just in time for Easter.
02:26If you don't have any colored dyes at home,
02:28you don't have food coloring,
02:30and you wanna do something very natural,
02:32well, use onion skins.
02:35We probably all have some onion skins in our larder.
02:38Just peel an onion and create marbleized eggs naturally.
02:44These are chicken eggs.
02:46This is a recently laid goose egg, hard boiled.
02:50Now, you can use coffee filters like this,
02:53or you can use a piece of recycled cheesecloth.
02:56I'm gonna do both so that you can see how easy it is.
02:59Now, choose an egg.
03:00A white egg usually turns out the best.
03:03And just nestle the egg in a coffee filter
03:06in a bed of onion skins.
03:09Draw the coffee filter up around the egg.
03:15And these are kind of small coffee filters,
03:18but the small eggs work very, very well.
03:21You can use white onions, red onions,
03:24yellow onions, Spanish onions.
03:28And just completely twist this,
03:35and use a twist them too around the coffee filter
03:39to hold those onion skins tightly on the shell of the egg.
03:43Now, these are raw eggs,
03:44and they're going to be hard boiled.
03:46So you just put that into a pot of water.
03:49Now, here's a piece of cheesecloth.
03:51I've already used this cheesecloth a couple of times,
03:54so I'm just putting more onion skins right in here.
03:58And I'm gonna try, ooh, I'm gonna try a khaki egg.
04:00Look at this gorgeous khaki colored egg
04:02from an Araucana hen.
04:04And I'm just going to, again,
04:06completely enshroud the egg with onion skins,
04:10and twist the cheesecloth around the egg.
04:15I kind of like the cheesecloth better than the filter
04:20because the cheesecloth is reusable,
04:24and it really holds the onion skin tightly on the egg.
04:29And it's just easy.
04:33And then put that into the water.
04:36I'll bring this to a boil, simmer for about 15 minutes.
04:40That should enshroud the egg
04:43in a beautiful marbleized pattern just like this.
04:47That looks like a real marble egg,
04:51but in fact, it's a real goose egg marbleized.
04:56Now, once you've colored your eggs using natural dyes,
04:59turmeric, onion skins, beet leaves, whatever,
05:05you'll want to make one or two or three,
05:08depending on how many grandchildren or children you have,
05:12you'll want to make some golden eggs too.
05:14And I like to gold leaf my eggs
05:16because I want them to look really like gold.
05:20So you can buy this gold leaf.
05:23Martha Stewart Crafts has gold leaf, believe it or not.
05:28And there are sheets of gold leaf in here, 12 sheets,
05:31and they're called gilding sheets.
05:34And be very careful with them because they are fragile.
05:38You can lift, I'm gonna get a little static
05:41going on the brush.
05:42You can lift the gold leaf off the paper.
05:46But I find that it's easier if you put adhesive on an egg.
05:50And let's dilute.
05:51This is a liquid glue.
05:53Just dilute it with a little bit of water.
05:56You don't want it too thick.
05:59And you're going to want to coat an egg
06:05pretty much all over with the adhesive.
06:11Work quickly, get the whole thing coated.
06:16I'm just gonna put it here in the egg cup.
06:19It's all water soluble,
06:20so don't worry about getting the glue on other things.
06:25It'll wash off.
06:26Get the egg completely coated.
06:28It has to get a little bit tacky
06:30before you can roll it on the gold leaf.
06:34You can use an egg carton to hold the eggs
06:40while they're getting tacky.
06:42And I hope you know what I mean by getting tacky.
06:44Just almost dry, but not quite, still adhesive.
06:49So see those, they'll get a little bit tacky.
06:51I'm gonna rinse my hands for the next step.
06:55Remove one sheet of the gold leaf.
06:58Isn't that just beautiful?
07:00This is hand-pounded gold leaf.
07:02I think it's made in India.
07:04And it is very thin, almost gossamer.
07:09And then choose your tacky egg.
07:12This feels, I think it's a little bit dry right here.
07:17I just want to make sure that it's tacky everywhere.
07:22Put that onto the sheet of gold leaf
07:25and just pull the gold leaf up over the tackiness.
07:29You can see it's starting to adhere to the egg.
07:33And just go all around it like this.
07:39And when a child finds a golden egg,
07:41a real golden egg like this,
07:43the squeals of joy and the idea of winning a prize,
07:49which is generally a giant chocolate rabbit.
07:52That's in the good days
07:53when there were actual Easter celebrations.
08:06And let this dry completely.
08:12And don't throw these away, these scraps.
08:15And as soon as these dry,
08:16I will show you how to smooth the gold leaf off the egg.
08:20So now take a piece of cheesecloth
08:23and just gently rub the surface,
08:28getting rid of all those little niggly pieces
08:32of gold leaf that are sticking out.
08:36This will look more like a Fabergé egg.
08:39And of course you could bejewel it if you want,
08:44but I like it just like this.
08:46And the longer it dries, the more secure the gold is.
08:50There.
08:51And now for revelation.
08:54Starting to sound like a Bible school here.
08:58But remember, Easter is a very religious time of year.
09:03And, oh, look how beautiful.
09:06That was on the blue egg.
09:09How beautiful.
09:10And I can go add it right to the others.
09:14And here, this is the one in the coffee filter.
09:17Now, let's see what happened to this one.
09:22Now this cannot be used again.
09:23The cheesecloth can, but not the onion skins.
09:25They have absolutely been utilized.
09:29Oh, this one's very pale.
09:33I think you need to use more of brown skin.
09:36Oh, but this is like a white marble.
09:39This is like a Vermont marble
09:41with just a few grains in it.
09:42Oh, pretty.
09:43There.
09:44Let those cool.
09:46And add them to your collection of dyed eggs
09:49using natural ingredients.
09:52Have fun, be inventive, be creative,
09:55be innovative, and be old-fashioned.
09:58This is the old-fashioned way.
10:01So which ones are we gonna show today?
10:03We're gonna, we can do, should we finish up marbleizing?
10:04Okay.
10:05Okay, marbleizing.
10:06Okay, so we did the first, Joey.
10:07So rudely interrupted by Joey.
10:10His intrusion into my show.
10:12He thought he was gonna host this show.
10:17So we're just kind of making the second dye bath here.
10:21So you just add, you really need about a half inch of water
10:24and then you need a really strong dye bath
10:25for the second one.
10:26And then we're gonna add one tablespoon of oil.
10:28Oh boy.
10:30So, and the oil is what kind of allows it to separate
10:33and makes the nice patterns that we're gonna try to get.
10:36So we actually have two dye baths here.
10:38We have one that's like a neutral, like a brown,
10:40and then this one's kind of a more of a bright green.
10:42And it's really fun
10:43because you can play around with the different colors.
10:45What you wanna do is you'll take a fork
10:47and you'll kind of break up the oil
10:49and create different patterns in that sort of stuff.
10:52So you do that.
10:52So it's like marbleizing paper.
10:54Yes, so it's, yeah, it's actually easier
10:55because you can do it with everything you have
10:56in your kitchen.
10:57Right.
10:58It's great.
10:59And then you just put it in
11:00and then you roll it around a little bit.
11:05Until it gets the color.
11:07And then you can take it,
11:09this one you wanna lift up
11:10and then you'll blot it with a paper towel.
11:14And you've got your pattern.
11:15You've got bright green and I've got like a neutral.
11:17Okay.
11:18And then you just wanna leave it up there
11:19to dry for a little bit.
11:22And you can do lots of different ones.
11:23Like you could take your green one
11:24and put it in the neutral one.
11:26Oh, I'm going to.
11:26Or the blue.
11:27Oh, look.
11:28Yeah, that's a nice one.
11:29I like that.
11:31And these are, this is a great thing to do with kids
11:33because it's magic.
11:34It's just magic.
11:35It just happens and they don't have to have great technique
11:38or anything like that.
11:39You just kind of keep rolling them around.
11:40So should we try stenciling?
11:41Yes.
11:42Okay.
11:43I don't need gloves.
11:43Nope, you don't need gloves.
11:46Oh, that's a beauty.
11:47That is a nice one.
11:49So for this one, we have eggs that are already,
11:51they're already dyed a pale color
11:52and we're just gonna add embellishments to them
11:56with food coloring.
11:58So what you wanna do is you'll use something,
12:01it's like a vinyl here.
12:02So you use a sheet of vinyl,
12:05which you can get at doall.com
12:07and it kind of creates a mask for the egg.
12:09So you're gonna make stencils with this vinyl.
12:11So you flip it over
12:12and I always like to use punches upside down
12:14so you can really see what you're doing.
12:16So you have one seven eighths punch
12:19and one three quarter inch punch
12:21and then that's the body and the head.
12:24Oh, I see.
12:26Is this expensive paper?
12:27No, it's like $2 for a sheet, something like that.
12:30And you can make a ton of them with it.
12:32Uh-oh, did I go too close?
12:33Oh, that's okay.
12:35It's pretty easy and we have these guys over here.
12:37So you make all the different parts.
12:38You're gonna make the body, the head,
12:41the wing, the beak and the eye.
12:43So, but that's just basically how that starts.
12:46So we can take the egg.
12:49Oh, and this is adhesive.
12:50Yes, it's adhesive.
12:51It's vinyl adhesive.
12:53Oh, so the vinyl doesn't lift off.
12:55Right, so then you stick it on the egg.
12:57So this is the body.
12:59Yes, that's the body
12:59and you wanna put it a little bit on the lower side
13:01cause you're gonna have to make room for the top
13:04and then you just kind of fit it on there.
13:06Oh, better than gluing on a piece of paper.
13:10Yes.
13:10And then trying to get it off
13:11cause this just releases by itself, right?
13:13Yes, and vinyl's great
13:14because it's a really strong adhesive but it comes off
13:17but, and you really wanna burnish it down
13:20with your fingers to get a smooth surface.
13:23And then take a Q-tip.
13:25And choose your color?
13:26Yep, and I add a little bit of water
13:28to just to lighten it up a little bit
13:29and then we're gonna start with the yellow for the body.
13:32Who would know that was yellow?
13:34And then you just lightly go over it
13:36in a circle like it's a magic marker.
13:40And then a little blotting with a paper towel
13:42just to kind of do that.
13:47And then you peel it off and you've got your stencil egg.
13:51Yes.
13:52And then we actually set it up
13:53so that we can keep going easily.
13:55So we have the second one.
13:56So you do the same thing again.
13:58You take the head stencil, the second one.
14:01And then, again, a little magic marker with the Q-tip.
14:06Lightly.
14:08The head.
14:12And a little blotting.
14:15And we made a bunch of different types of animals too.
14:17We made chicks, we made bunnies, we made.
14:18Oh, they're so cute.
14:20Caterpillars.
14:20And this is something that the kids would love to do
14:22if they're old enough.
14:23I mean, this is a little bit more advanced
14:25than just dyeing eggs.
14:27Yes.
14:27The little kids can just do the dyeing.
14:29Just do the weighing really quick.
14:30Same color?
14:31Same color, yellow, yep.
14:33And then the last bit is the beak and the eye
14:38just to finish it off.
14:40So I just use a little craft knife
14:42to cut a little beak right into there.
14:44And you use a different color?
14:46Yes, for the beak I used orange,
14:47but you could use whatever color you want.
14:49Well, beaks aren't green.
14:51No.
14:53Well, bunnies aren't really pink either,
14:54but we made a pink bunny.
14:57All right.
14:58Okay.
15:00So for the beak, same thing, just a little light.
15:02And then what did you use for the little eye?
15:04I used black food coloring for the eye.
15:06And there's just a little, little tiny circle there.
15:09Oh, I see.
15:10And that makes, oh, here it goes.
15:13And he's done.
15:14And any feet?
15:15We didn't put feet on him, but you could.
15:16You could also draw with a Sharpie if you want to.
15:18Awesome, thank you.
15:30We're here in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
15:33at the New York Botanical Garden,
15:35where 5,000 stunning orchids are dazzling the eye.
15:39This is the perfect location to celebrate the coming season
15:43and host one of my most cherished holiday traditions,
15:46an Easter egg hunt.
15:48Over the years, I've held many hunts.
15:50I always love watching the children's faces
15:52as they discover these hidden treasures.
15:54And I think it's a great way to celebrate
15:57the children's faces as they discover these hidden treasures
15:59and add them to the growing collection in their baskets.
16:02This year, I've hidden over 100 eggs throughout the garden
16:05amidst the beautiful flowers and moss.
16:08Simply dyed, hard-boiled eggs
16:10are perfect for children to handle.
16:12There are also dozens of more sophisticated ways
16:16to embellish eggs.
16:17Some of my favorite techniques are masking eggs with tape
16:20to create plaids and stripes,
16:23masking them with lace to create elegant designs,
16:26applying stickers before dyeing to create fun patterns,
16:30adding pretty embellishments after dyeing,
16:33sponge-painting eggs, finger-painting eggs,
16:36embossing eggs, glittering eggs,
16:38and even stenciling eggs.
16:41After all the eggs have been carefully collected,
16:44I'm sure the children and their parents will want to celebrate.
16:47So I'm setting up an enchanted garden party
16:49full of delectable treats for the children to enjoy.
16:53We created these really lovely tables.
16:55The bases are tree stumps from my farm in Bedford,
16:58and the tops are faux-bois ovals covered with moss.
17:03And it's a very nice woodland theme,
17:05which really complements the gorgeous,
17:07gorgeous flower display here at the garden.
17:10Wouldn't you love to find an egg like this
17:12in your Easter basket?
17:14Actually, there's more than one.
17:17This is known as a matryoshka egg,
17:20and it's very popular in Russia.
17:24We've used, as inspiration, my own arachonic chicken eggs,
17:28which come in all these varying shades
17:30of green and blue and pink and gray-white.
17:34And Kevin Walker from our style department
17:37just figured out how to paint this set of nesting eggs,
17:39which is a very simple interpretation
17:42of the very much more complicated version
17:45of the Russian matryoshka doll.
17:47So some of them look like that.
17:48Some of them look like the cute little blue and gold ones.
17:51But these look like Easter eggs.
17:53Oh, where do you find the set, by the way?
17:54You get them in their unfinished state
17:56from a store called The Golden Cockerel.
17:58And it's online, goldencockerel.com.
18:00$14 for a set of five.
18:01And they're so beautiful.
18:02They have a beautiful base.
18:03And they are made in Russia.
18:06What kind of wood is this?
18:06It's a birch wood.
18:08I take it apart, and then?
18:09Absolutely.
18:09We start to prime it.
18:10And the real secret to priming these
18:12is that you want to use a shellac-based primer.
18:15And shellac-based primer is alcohol-based
18:17so that it dries very quickly.
18:18And it kills all stains and seals.
18:20It absolutely seals and kills everything
18:21that could be on the wood.
18:23We have this, but we already have our sets.
18:25Oh, OK.
18:25These have already.
18:26Now, any sanding once you prime?
18:28Two coats.
18:29Sanding between coats.
18:30And what kind of sandpaper?
18:32Sanding sponges.
18:33They're really wonderful.
18:34OK.
18:34The first coat, I used a fine.
18:35OK.
18:36Because I just wanted to get rid of the wood burrs.
18:38But the second coat, we want to move on to a super fine.
18:40Now, has this been sanded yet?
18:42It's been touched a little bit, but we really
18:44need to finish these up before we start to paint them.
18:47There's some brush strokes from the primer still on it.
18:50And you just want to lightly go in circles
18:51with the sanding sponge.
18:53The great thing about the sanding sponge
18:54is that it wraps around.
18:55It's malleable.
18:55That's right.
18:56Exactly.
18:56It wraps to the contours so you don't strip
18:58the paint or the primer off.
19:00So once it's primed.
19:01Once it's primed and sanded twice,
19:03you get to this wonderful sheen surface,
19:05which is perfect for painting.
19:06We have five eggs, so we'll need five colors.
19:09Instead of finding five different paints that
19:10matched perfectly, we decided it'd be much more wonderful
19:14if we mixed our own.
19:15What could be better than authentic Martha Stewart color?
19:18And this is silky white.
19:20And this is, what, an acrylic base?
19:22It's an acrylic base because these are such fine paints,
19:24they don't even go latex.
19:25They go with the exact same thing that artists use.
19:27So you'll notice that it's a little bit more gelatinous.
19:29You can hardly move it.
19:30However, this will ensure a really beautiful.
19:32Now, what color do you have?
19:33My colors are sea lavender and then fountain grass.
19:36How much?
19:37I went with about three or four spoonfuls.
19:40We want to first knock out these two ends so that we can then
19:43formulate the gradation.
19:45So that's my first step.
19:47And then five steps later, I know
19:48will be my last color, or this color.
19:51So I can then just spoon a little bit more paint into there.
19:55Now, to sort of mix up and make sure
19:58that you've got these middle steps,
20:00let's imagine this is two, three, four,
20:02and then this will be five.
20:03So on my eggs, you can see it goes one, two, three, four,
20:05and five.
20:07You want to make sure that you mix appropriate amounts.
20:09My method is a little different than yours.
20:12I start with lots, less, less, less, less, and very less.
20:15It'll work.
20:15Oh, it will.
20:16Because this is very imprecise as a science,
20:19you just have to eye it.
20:20The middle being egg number three, so what I'm doing here
20:23is I'm making sure that this middle gradation is half
20:27of my blue and half of my pink.
20:28So whatever two colors you choose,
20:30just make sure that it's 50% of both.
20:33Now, eggs number two and four, so that
20:36would be the one that's right next to the smallest
20:38and the one that's right next to the largest,
20:40are going to be percentages of that.
20:42So imagine it like a recipe.
20:43If you consider something three parts of one
20:45part of the other, you come up with 100%.
20:48Do you have any idea what he's talking about?
20:50I hope so.
20:52I don't have a clue.
20:53So right here, we imagine that's going to be the three parts
20:56nearest to my pink color.
20:57So right here, we're just going to go with a one part.
21:01Let's see what I've done.
21:02I just have much more white in here and much less green,
21:06much more green, and much less white.
21:07What we're trying to do is just get a gradation of color.
21:14Now, the real trick is to make sure you have good brushes.
21:18Good brushes are such a key to getting a wonderful surface.
21:22Investment in a few quality artist brushes,
21:24which are usually a sable hair or some sort of synthetic,
21:27will achieve a much more beautiful finish.
21:30Now, these larger eggs, you can just tuck your fingers in
21:33and start to paint.
21:34Make sure when you apply the paint,
21:36you don't over apply it because you
21:37want to try to keep the brush strokes to a minimum.
21:40And I've been working either up or down on the egg
21:45and in a circle.
21:46I can just rotate my wrist as I paint, smoothing it out.
21:50How many coats?
21:50About three coats is what I found works really wonderful.
21:55Really beautiful.
21:57You sand between each coats.
21:58And it's really at this point where
22:00you want to take the care to get that surface.
22:02It's about applying the coats thin enough
22:04and then sanding down so that you've removed
22:06almost all the brush strokes.
22:08So you don't want to over stroke it.
22:09You want to go back and pull the paint off the surface.
22:13There.
22:14Looks perfect.
22:15And then just sort of, that's part of the trick too,
22:18sliding underneath.
22:20Now, with the bottom part, I've just
22:22been holding my thumb on this little lip.
22:24It goes on so well with that primed base coat.
22:27It's incredible.
22:29There, look at that.
22:30Look.
22:31That's perfect.
22:32But this little one, which you can't split open,
22:34use a T-pin, just sort of skewer it.
22:38And there you've got your apparatus
22:40so that you don't get any fingers on it.
22:43Going to go with my lightest color now.
22:45So I'm having all Araucana green eggs.
22:47And then how do you get this off the pin?
22:49We have got a little block of Oasis.
22:51This is the trick.
22:52Stick it in Oasis and let it dry,
22:53because you really don't want any finger marks on these.
22:57There was a contest in Russia last summer.
23:00And they sent me a set of these eggs
23:02to decorate for an auction.
23:05Kevin and I came up with this idea
23:06of making a simple white set of eggs
23:10and inside putting text from my five favorite Russian novels.
23:15And it got the most money.
23:16Isn't that nice?
23:17Which I was very proud of.
23:18Yes.
23:19So we have our palest egg, our darkest egg.
23:21And all we have to do now is the gradations.
23:23That's right.
23:24Here I can show you how wonderful
23:26the surface will look once you've
23:27applied two or three coats.
23:29So if we take some felt, you can find
23:31that just putting it over the surface
23:33and turning, it often will buff up.
23:35You can already see that the shine is coming.
23:37If you want to get a little bit more shine,
23:39tack cloth, which you find at any paint and hardware store,
23:42leaves a small residue of wax, which you cannot see.
23:46You can see it's got this shine right now.
23:47As soon as I buff it, it really glistens.
23:53So we'll fill these with candies,
23:55and you'll see how charming they are.
23:58Perhaps the most beautiful Easter treat I've ever seen.
24:02I can't believe it.
24:16We have dedicated today to being together
24:18and making Easter crafts.
24:20The two rabbits behind me, the little black rabbit
24:23and the little white rabbit, they're going to watch.
24:26Sofie, you're doing the ostrich egg,
24:28which I think is the largest bird egg in the world.
24:30It's the largest bird egg in the world.
24:32It weighs about three pounds.
24:33I have the emu egg, and what are you going to do with yours?
24:37This is the rhea egg, and this is from a South American bird.
24:40You know that these are the examples of the three largest
24:43land birds that don't fly.
24:45So Sophie, explain the process for decorating
24:48that gorgeous ostrich egg.
24:49Well, this is very simple.
24:50These are these beautiful vintage Easter postcards
24:53that I scanned in, but you can also find things online
24:56and print them out.
24:57Very gently apply some glue on the back.
24:59Make sure you smooth it out with a hand
25:00so it doesn't have any glue on it.
25:02Oh, and how are you going to decorate yours?
25:03This is actually a really cool technique.
25:05We're taking these punches.
25:07Martha punches from our craft.
25:09They are.
25:09They're from our craft life.
25:10They're from Michael's, right?
25:11So after you do that, you just put a light coat of glue
25:15onto the back of it, and then you can kind of place it.
25:19And this printed paper is so gorgeous, too.
25:21It's so antique-looking.
25:22It is.
25:22It's really beautiful.
25:23And the way I'm going to do the emu egg, because it's so dark,
25:27I thought the contrast of a metallic
25:29would be so beautiful.
25:30This is called Dresden.
25:31Do you know the history of Dresden?
25:32No.
25:32Well, in Dresden, Germany, they used to use foil paper,
25:35press it, emboss it, and cut it all at the same time
25:39into all kinds of shapes.
25:40This one says Easter greetings.
25:42And again, it's applying the white glue all over the back.
25:46You have to really keep pressing it
25:48as it dries to keep it flat.
25:50Oh, that's gorgeous.
25:51I love the way the gold pops out from that glass.
25:52So these little chicks I thought would
25:54be cute walking underneath it.
25:55This glass dome is called a cloche.
25:58These were originally developed to place over plants
26:02in the garden where the plants would grow in the warm sunlight
26:05and in the warmth created under the glass.
26:07These also make very clever egg displays.
26:10So what you do is turn the cloche upside down.
26:14And I'm going to fill this with an assortment
26:16of beautiful, naturally colored eggs.
26:19And they're already blown out, and all the contents are gone.
26:23And you just fill the whole thing.
26:25Oh, I love the shapes and subtle shades
26:28of all these eggs.
26:30That's pretty good.
26:31Just push them around a little bit lightly,
26:32and then take your pedestal, which is going
26:37to now look like a top.
26:39But when you turn it over, all the eggs
26:44are beautifully displayed underneath the cloche.
26:47This was an old Victorian way of displaying eggs.
26:50What do you think, girls?
26:51Beautiful.
26:52Beautiful.
26:52Pretty, right?
26:53Jackie is here, one of our audience production assistants.
26:56And she's going to share this very unusual technique
27:00of using ties.
27:02There's the point of the tie for actually imparting
27:08this design onto the eggshell.
27:11Small to medium-sized eggs work best.
27:13And you take your piece of tie.
27:15It can also be a silk blouse, boxers.
27:17I have no history with this, so I have no idea which one I'm
27:20This piece looks good.
27:21That looks good.
27:22So the right side next to the egg.
27:26Exactly.
27:26And it doesn't matter how you wrap it.
27:28There's no particular way.
27:29But I find it easiest to put the bottom
27:31of the egg in the middle of the material
27:33and bring it up around it nice and tight.
27:35You take your white cloth, put it over the egg,
27:38and make sure, again, it's nice and tight.
27:39Now, this is an improvement over my little string ties.
27:42A twist them works very easily.
27:44Yes, this is very easy.
27:45That's the whole point.
27:46Good idea.
27:47It's easy for everyone to do.
27:48And you find that it's beautiful when you're done.
27:50And you can get it tighter and tighter.
27:51Right.
27:51Then once you do a bunch of eggs,
27:53you put them in your glass or enamel pot.
27:55Make sure.
27:56That's very important.
27:57No reactive metals.
27:59Right, because we're going to put vinegar in there.
28:01And that'll interact and not do so great.
28:03You put your water in.
28:04And you put in your vinegar.
28:06It's about a quarter cup of vinegar.
28:07No less.
28:08You can add more if you want.
28:09But just make sure it's at least that.
28:11You pour that in.
28:12And you bring your water to a boil,
28:14making sure that it's not too rapid.
28:16Once it gets to the boil, turn it down and simmer it
28:19for at least 20 minutes.
28:21And after they're out, let them cool a little bit
28:23so they're not too hot.
28:24This is so easy.
28:24Isn't it easy?
28:25Very easy.
28:25That's the whole point.
28:26So I'm going to just unwrap a few of them
28:28to show everyone what they look like.
28:29Charles Koppelman, our chairman, he has a lot of ties.
28:32He's always buying ties.
28:33He must have some that he can give me.
28:35Yeah, some are probably out of style.
28:37So just cut them up for him.
28:38That's all.
28:38He won't mind.
28:39So look at this.
28:40This was probably a blouse that had flowers on it.
28:44So you see the design comes right off.
28:46That is really pretty.
28:48And you can reuse the silk.
28:51Oh, you can?
28:52You can reuse it.
28:53Sometimes, some pieces of material
28:55work up to five times.
28:56Other ones work one time.
28:57It's trial and error.
28:58You just have to see how it works out.
29:01Oh, look at this one.
29:02Isn't that beautiful?
29:03Very pretty.
29:04Wow.
29:04Very pretty.
29:05And you see how it's a tie.
29:07Yeah, and that's definitely an out-of-date tie.
29:10Yep.
29:11And then to make them shine, I always take some vegetable oil
29:15and you just wrap it.
29:16Look at this one.
29:17Isn't that beautiful?
29:18Very Japanese.
29:19Look how very defined the design is.
29:21Yes.
29:22I love that one.
29:23Thank you so much, Jackie.
29:24You're very welcome.
29:25This has been fantastic.
29:26In season one, we showed how to dye Easter eggs using neckties.
29:30You just cut up your husband's favorite ties
29:32and wrap them around eggs and boil them
29:34with water and vinegar.
29:36And everybody loved the project, except the husbands.
29:39In fact, it is our most popular TV Easter craft of all time.
29:44So back by popular demand is Jackie Blaze,
29:48who introduced us to this unusual technique.
29:50These are beautiful.
29:51Aren't they beautiful?
29:52And it's just the same exact thing as we did last time.
29:54You take your raw egg, and this is a good craft for kids,
29:57but since it's a raw egg, you have
29:58to just be a little careful.
29:59And put the right side next to the egg.
30:04And pull it up nice and tight.
30:05I prefer having the fabric a little bit loose
30:08around the egg, because then you get a white design on the egg.
30:11But some people prefer it to be really tight.
30:13Then take a twisty tie, which makes this craft even easier.
30:17Yeah, instead of rubber bands or string.
30:19Nice and simple.
30:21Twist that around your fabric.
30:22Then take a piece of muslin or white tablecloth
30:25that you've got a stain on, and you can no longer use it.
30:29And wrap that around.
30:30So we're sort of concealing this die from all the other eggs.
30:33Exactly.
30:33Otherwise, it would bleed out onto the other ones.
30:35And then you just take this again and use a twisty tie.
30:38Did we do this with the ties, cover it with muslin?
30:41I don't remember doing that.
30:42Yes, yep.
30:43Absolutely.
30:43I think at that point, we may have done some pillowcases,
30:46but we switched it to muslin.
30:48Absolutely.
30:49So then you put them in a glass or enamel pot.
30:52And we already have a couple in here.
30:53Yeah, non-reactive saucepan, not aluminum.
30:56Right.
30:57You take your water, and you fill the pot just enough
31:00to cover the eggs.
31:03This is such an easy way to really beautifully decorate
31:08Easter eggs.
31:09It is, and it's also inexpensive,
31:10because you're using a blouse or a tie that's outdated.
31:13How many, how much vinegar?
31:15It's about three tablespoons, but I usually just eyeball it.
31:18Three.
31:19OK.
31:20And then you bring it to a boil, simmer
31:22for at least 20 minutes, longer if you want it.
31:26Watch this.
31:28This is the fun part.
31:29These have been boiled for how many, 20 minutes?
31:31At least 20 minutes.
31:32You can do it up to 40 minutes if the color's not coming off.
31:35If you want to eat the eggs, 20 minutes.
31:37If you don't want to eat the eggs, 40 minutes.
31:39As long as you want, and then wait till they cool and unwrap
31:41them, and then you get a beautiful surprise.
31:45Look at that.
31:48This is so much fun.
31:49Now, we've tried to find the chemical reason why
31:53silk works and cotton doesn't.
31:55We tried some cotton.
31:56It just doesn't impart its beautiful design.
32:00Look at that.
32:01Look.
32:01It's amazing.
32:02This is a tradition passed down for years.
32:05It came from, as much as we know, Germany.
32:09You think so, Germany?
32:10My family is German, and I learned it
32:12from my great-aunt, who learned it from her mother,
32:15my great-grandmother.
32:16I'm getting all stripes and marble.
32:19This is amazing.
32:19It's beautiful.
32:20It's very beautiful.
32:21Look at that, and you don't know what you're going to get.
32:23This is really, really incredible, and so much fun.
32:26And it's like magic for the children.
32:28If they see something like this, oh, they
32:31just think it is phenomenal.
32:32And that, I think they call it a goose egg.
32:34A goose egg.
32:35Look how beautifully decorated.
32:36And then you rub it with vegetable oil.
32:38Don't forget a little bit of vegetable oil,
32:41just to give it a little bit of a shine all over the surface,
32:45and wipe it off with a paper towel,
32:49and just gives that lovely gloss to the egg.
32:52It looks like it's been waxed.
32:53Yes, it's a neat idea.
32:54You could actually use wax if you wanted to.
32:56We've dyed many eggs on this show,
32:57and we are always looking for new and inventive ways
33:00to decorate eggs.
33:02Go to marthastewart.com for lots of ideas.
33:05But today, we're using lace, which
33:08gives a very pretty pattern.
33:10And if you can get a close-up of these eggs here,
33:12look at these beautiful, delicate patterns
33:15on these eggs, all made by first wrapping the egg in lace,
33:21and then putting it into the colored dye.
33:24And I have some pieces of lace.
33:26You can use lace that you have little remnants
33:29of in your sewing basket.
33:31Oh, I have lots and lots of lace at home.
33:34And you just roll the egg into, let's see,
33:39into this piece of lace.
33:40You want to get the most beautiful patterns on that egg
33:44and twist this very tightly like this.
33:49This will give a very nice pattern, I think.
33:52Twist this, and then catch it with a rubber band.
33:56I'm using these ponytail rubber bands
33:58that I use for flower arrangements.
34:00They're translucent.
34:01Doesn't matter.
34:01You can use any color rubber band that you
34:03want if you have a rubber band.
34:05And just keep twisting it around the lace
34:11so that you can secure it very tightly.
34:15If you don't have rubber bands, you could sew this, tie it,
34:18figure out a way to really secure it.
34:21And then you put these eggs right
34:23into a colored dye, whatever colored dye
34:26that you want to use.
34:27I use cake or frosting colors, vegetable coloring.
34:34And I mix colors that will go with my decorations that year.
34:38So I'm just going to drop this in.
34:41This is a, obviously, sort of a turquoise-y blue.
34:46Lace doesn't matter.
34:47It doesn't matter what color the lace is.
34:48Black, ecru, chantilly, alanson, whatever lace you have.
34:56Cut up your wedding dress if you got divorced
34:59and you really don't like that wedding dress anymore.
35:01Just cut it up.
35:02And leave it in the dye for a long time.
35:06It's better if you keep it in at least 15 minutes.
35:09And the dye should be warm.
35:11And if you want to even make it a little bit more secure,
35:14add about two tablespoons of white vinegar to the water.
35:18Or you can even use rice vinegar.
35:20I've used rice vinegar when I didn't
35:21have any plain white vinegar.
35:25You can also use cider vinegar.
35:27It's the vinegar that you need.
35:29Now, I'm using some rubber gloves
35:31because I don't want to get dye on my new manicure.
35:36And we're going to unwrap.
35:38You can just snip it with a scissor if you like.
35:42Like that.
35:43Now, look.
35:45Like magic.
35:46Isn't that gorgeous?
35:48I think these are so beautiful.
35:50And don't use the same.
35:55I mean, if you're going to do all green,
35:56it's OK if you use this paper towel again.
36:00But this is our little egg board.
36:02We made this on a piece of just foam core.
36:06And little pins stuck in so that the eggs can dry nicely.
36:12Joey, I just have to ask, how many omelets
36:14have you created so far?
36:16Four.
36:17OK, well, hurry up.
36:18I know, I need to get to like 30, right?
36:20One a minute.
36:22One a minute?
36:22Yes.
36:24If you're looking for new and creative ways
36:26to design your Easter eggs, we've
36:28got lots of inventive techniques on our Egg Dyeing 101 app.
36:33And now, this app is so great, it's won all kinds of awards.
36:37And here to show us how to use it, either on your iPhone
36:41or your iPad or your iPod Touch, there
36:45are more than 100 of our best egg decorating ideas.
36:48And we have Marcy McGoldrick here.
36:51Please welcome her.
36:52And Marcy, take everybody through the app
36:55because this is really a genius app.
36:58It's for sale in the iPhone store,
37:00but we're going to show it on the iPad.
37:02How much?
37:02It's only $0.99 for thousands of dollars of information.
37:08So we have 101 ideas, but you could always
37:11start at the basic section.
37:13We have basic recipes and color wheels
37:16that give you directions on how to achieve all the colors
37:20that you'd want to achieve.
37:22We have sourcing and our best tips and techniques.
37:25And then in the gallery, which you can scroll through this way
37:30or if you want to, you can scroll through this way
37:32and look at them large and go through and decide
37:33what you want to do.
37:34So plaid eggs, dotted eggs, golden eggs, mottled eggs,
37:40marbleized eggs, wax resist eggs, stenciled eggs.
37:45What are we going to do today?
37:46Speckling.
37:47We're going to do botanical eggs.
37:48What it's going to show you, we've
37:50added four new videos to the.
37:52Show the video.
37:54I think they're going to show us a run of it.
37:56This is these wax dipped eggs.
37:58So you'll get to see how I think they can work.
38:01But yeah, we have the photo step by step,
38:03but then we also have video instruction
38:05on nine of the techniques.
38:08Yeah.
38:09It's the greatest.
38:11Oh no, that didn't take us to the video.
38:14Should we get started with the botanicals?
38:16This is one of my favorite techniques that we have.
38:19So you're going to start by picking a botanical.
38:21You can do herbs, anything you'd like.
38:24Botanical is really another name for leaves.
38:28Or grass.
38:29And you can pick up anything in your backyard.
38:31And we're going to mask them.
38:32So you're going to take a little bit,
38:34we use a little bit of egg yolk, and we're just
38:36going to paint the back.
38:38Egg white.
38:38Egg white, sorry.
38:39Now, the eggs have been primed with vinegar first?
38:41Yes.
38:42We wipe them clean with vinegar, and I
38:43got the tip in the last segment to try baking soda.
38:45So we're going to have to try that.
38:46Well, she said she did both vinegar and baking soda.
38:51So we'll have to try that.
38:52So you want to paint the back of the leaf
38:54a little bit with some egg yolk, and that just helps it to stick.
38:57Egg white.
38:57Egg white, sorry.
38:58Oh my gosh.
38:59And then you're going to place it on the egg,
39:02and then you kind of just pat it down.
39:03What if you used egg yolk?
39:05We never tried egg yolk.
39:06I think the egg white is nice because it's clear.
39:08I know.
39:08I'm just kidding.
39:10OK.
39:11So you pat it down, and then you're going to just take.
39:13That's very good to do that first.
39:15Yeah, it's a great little natural glue.
39:17So we're using stockings.
39:19We can take your old stockings, and we
39:20cut about a four inch piece of that.
39:22I have a drawer full of old stockings I should give to you.
39:25You can dye a lot of eggs.
39:26So then you just slip them into, you slip the egg in there,
39:28and that is great because it holds it in place.
39:31It'll hold the egg in place.
39:32And remember, you can put one egg on one side,
39:33another, I mean, one leaf on one side,
39:35another leaf on another side, so you
39:37don't have to restrain yourselves from decorative.
39:41So you want to kind of just pull the stocking tight
39:44to the back, and then you're going
39:47to secure it with a rubber band.
39:48OK.
39:51And then you just wrap it around.
39:53OK, and show those rubber bands.
39:54You can use your daughter's ponytail rubber bands,
39:57these little tiny ones that you get at the drugstore.
40:00Have you ever seen those?
40:02Those are a fantastic find.
40:04And OK, so once you get that all done.
40:06And we're dying these guys raw so
40:07that they sink to the bottom, and then
40:08if you want to keep them, you'll blow them out afterwards.
40:11OK.
40:11Oh, so that's a good idea.
40:12Yeah.
40:12Because you're not boiling them.
40:14Yep, exactly.
40:15But if you want to decorate boiled eggs,
40:16this is the way you do it, too.
40:18Right.
40:18Right.
40:19And if you want to marbleize, I'm just building a lily here.
40:23If you want to marbleize, just put some onion skins over,
40:28before you put the stocking on, over your leaves,
40:30and then put the stocking on, and then
40:32you'll get a marbleized botanical egg.
40:34That'd be beautiful.
40:35Natural dye.
40:36So then what you're going to do, the stocking
40:39allows the dye to hold the botanical in place
40:41and allows the dye to absorb.
40:43So we're just going to stick it in there for a little bit.
40:45Now with these guys, a little trick
40:46that I've done for these eggs to achieve
40:48some more subtle hues is to add a little bit of the smallest
40:51amount of black food coloring to the basics that we get.
40:54So that's why they're a little, you know how they're so vibrant,
40:55which I like as well.
40:56But sometimes if you want something a little more subtle,
40:58the black helps you do that.
40:59Oh, I never did that.
41:00I never added the black.
41:01OK.
41:02And then I think this guy's been soaking for a little bit,
41:04so we could pull him out.
41:05Oh, yes, indeed.
41:06And see?
41:07You just want to pull them, and then you
41:09want to blot them a little with a paper towel,
41:11lightly, so that they can.
41:12OK.
41:14And cut off the rubber band, right?
41:16Yes.
41:16You're going to snip it away.
41:17And then release.
41:20This is so beautiful.
41:23So beautiful.
41:29And then you just gently peel your botanical back.
41:33Oh, look at that.
41:34See?
41:35It really does work amazing.
41:38And oh, wait.
41:40Here's another fantastic tip, is to make your own egg drying
41:47board by pushing pins through a piece of foam core.
41:51And we save them from year after year,
41:52and we use them because it's great
41:54because the pins keep the surface of the egg
41:57so no dye pulls up and that sort of thing.
41:59Right.
42:00I use upside down egg cartons, but you
42:01do get a little mark sometimes.
42:03Sometimes on the bottom.
42:04This is the perfect thing.
42:06And this is not to walk on, and not to put in anyone's bed,
42:09right?
42:10Yeah, exactly.
42:11So you can achieve some of the different colors
42:13just by how long the dyes sit in the bath.
42:15So 15, 20 seconds, and you just want to experiment.
42:19And then a couple minutes, like up to 12 to 15 minutes
42:22to get some more intense color.
42:25Oh, these are so very beautiful.
42:27They look great in a bowl.
42:28Yes, they do.
42:29So this is great.
42:30Well, thank you very, very much, Marcy.
42:33Well, here I have pretty much everything
42:35ready for dyeing eggs.
42:37I find that these gloves are a little bit heavy and unwieldy
42:40for handling the eggs.
42:41Perfect for the dyeing of the baskets.
42:43So I'm going to wear a pair of surgeon's gloves.
42:47I always like to wear gloves like this.
42:49I don't feel like walking around with purple hands.
42:51And on the stove, I have big kettles of boiling water.
42:56I've mixed some of the dyes already.
42:57We have a lovely shade of green.
42:59These are all non-toxic vegetable dyes
43:02that are used by cake decorators for mixing up frosting colors
43:07and for other uses in the kitchen.
43:10The dyes that we use for the baskets
43:11are non-toxic as long as they're not ingested.
43:14So I would prefer not using those on eggs.
43:17But here's a beautiful golden yellow.
43:21And here we have a lovely color of a sort
43:23of a violet blue, which is a mixture of pink and blue.
43:27We have here a liquid, royal blue liquid paste, it's called.
43:33These are available at the New York Cake and Bake Center.
43:36We have these wonderful paste colors.
43:40I've used these very successfully in the past.
43:43They can be mixed to attain whatever shade you wish.
43:46But they come in, oh gosh, an awful lot of colors.
43:49Then, of course, we have our supermarket variety,
43:51these jerky colors I've been using for many, many years.
43:54And if you like to mix colors, you
43:57can attain some pretty nice shades with this.
44:00But you have to be really careful
44:01because sometimes you'll end up with kind
44:03of a muddy brown color if you don't really count the drops.
44:07So you can use these.
44:08These are the least expensive.
44:10And for children, oftentimes you see these in the stores,
44:14kits like this, which have kind of tablets for the color.
44:17Let's see.
44:18These little tablets.
44:20I find these less effective, less fun,
44:23because you can't really get the variety that you can
44:25with all these other more professional colors.
44:28Now, if you're going to mix the liquid colors,
44:31I suggest bringing a big pot of water to a boil,
44:34five to eight quarts of water.
44:36Add one cup of plain white vinegar.
44:39This is supermarket kind of vinegar.
44:41It's one of my favorite vinegars, by the way.
44:43But it's great to use just plain old white vinegar.
44:46Now, I'm using a strainer to mix colors, because some of these,
44:50not all, but some of these liquid paste colors
44:54are kind of solid.
44:56And by putting them through a strainer and a piece of cheese
44:59cloth like this, we will avoid getting any lumps of color
45:03in the bottom.
45:04Now, here is a lovely orange.
45:07Number 5, 1, 3, 6.
45:11I want to make a really deep orange.
45:13So I'm adding 20 or 30 drops of this color.
45:16And if you keep the water rather rapidly boiling
45:20and run through the strainer like that,
45:22you're not going to get any lumps
45:23of color in your boiling water.
45:25That's a beautiful color.
45:27Now, these strainers are excellent for dyeing eggs.
45:31This is like a tempura strainer.
45:33It's all metal, has no wooden parts,
45:35so the wood won't get discolored.
45:37And for lowering eggs into this hot liquid
45:39and bringing them back up, this is great.
45:42We will try, in this first pot, a couple brown eggs
45:47and a couple white eggs.
45:48Now, over here, I have a bowl.
45:50Seems like a lot of processes, but it's really not
45:52so difficult. I dipped every single one
45:54of these eggs in this bowl, which
45:56is filled with white vinegar.
45:58That kind of takes away any roughness on the eggs
46:01and allows the dye to permeate the shell.
46:05Look how pretty this is, already taking
46:07on lovely peach color.
46:09So depending on how long you leave the eggs in the liquid,
46:12the color of the shells will go on the different tones.
46:17Notice right here, I have a cake rack turned upside down.
46:23And this is a very good way to dry the eggs.
46:26It's upside down just so that the eggs
46:28don't roll off the tray, but there's paper toweling
46:30underneath the rack, and the rack is just placed on top.
46:34And the tray has a side to it so that if the eggs
46:37want to roll, they can roll in the tray
46:40and not off the tray.
46:42And our orange eggs look really pretty.
46:45Even the brown egg looks a little bit orange,
46:47which is a very natural look.
46:50And now let them dry right on the rack.
46:53Keep moving them around because they will get
46:56a little bit of a marking from the wire.
46:59Well, this batch, this is definitely my favorite,
47:02a close second, third, fourth, and my least favorite,
47:06but I can remedy that by just adding
47:07another color to the green.
47:10Well, experiment with your dyeing of your eggs,
47:13and you'll never know what's going to turn up
47:15in that Easter basket.
47:16♪♪
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