So originally I saw this idea on my friend's Pinterest page. Someone had made some beautiful eggs with the shapes of leaves imprinted on them by applying the leaves to the eggs, wrapping them in stockings, and boiling them in onion skins to give them a lovely brown colour:
Aaaand... Monkey see, monkey do. :P
Unfortunately mine turned out nowhere near as gorgeous as the ones in the picture. For starters, I mustn't have pulled the stockings tight enough when I was wrapping them, which led to the leaves and stems moving around and creating blurred outlines rather than nice sharp shapes, or just not showing up at all because the dye was able to come between the plant and the egg shell.
As I didn't have any onion skins on hand, I used instant coffee instead. First I boiled the eggs, let them cool before wrapping them, then let the eggs sit in a pot of cold coffee for a few hours.
To be honest I was kind of disappointed, because the process took quite a long time (n00b fingers fumbling around lol) and in the end they didn't even turn out as good as I'd hoped they would.
If you're planning to try this yourself, make sure you pull the stocking material REALLY tight, and hopefully yours will turn out better! ^^
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