How to Decorate Eggs for Easter using Pressed Flowers

This year I’d all but decided not to decorate eggs for Easter because I thought I didn’t have time. Last weekend, when I could feel my anxiety levels rising, I mentioned to my husband that I had an idea in mind for them but I couldn’t possibly find time to sit down and put my attention to it. Quietly chiding me, he told me to make the time. So I did. I boiled up ten eggs and my daughter and I spent a couple of hours sitting on the living room floor decorating them.

I wanted to play around with some leftover pressed flowers I had and she had some plans for rabbits and chicks that would have tiny diamanté eyes and noses. She also utilised some of the flowers once she saw me using them. The dinner was late and the house stayed messy, but we had a lovely time and I’m so glad that I was gently pushed into doing it.

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I boiled both white and brown eggs and initially had thought I’d use the flowers to make a pattern where the shell would act as the base colour. But once I started with last year's pansies and violas, I found that overlapping them gave quite a lovely, delicate effect. I found some PVA glue (there’s never a shortage of glue in our house - and we’ve recently bought a glue gun! which is most exciting, but I digress…) and set about layering up the flowers, decoupage style.

I liked the look of keeping the flowers in the same palette for each egg. And, although I brushed the PVA over the top of the flowers to keep them in place, I rather liked it when the edges furled slightly. With the neutral/white flowers,  I layered them almost like a collage, then took smaller flowers of the same hue and put them over the top to give a three dimensional look. I took tiny pressed Scilla siberica petals and stuck a few over the purple pansies to create tiny, vibrant blue highlights.

Most of us will be spending Easter at home this year, so it’s the perfect time to get creative with a cosy Easter table setting. I’ll be using these eggs as the centrepiece for my place settings and mixing it up with colourful fresh, spring flowers and my dried flower mini posies, with bowls of pastel shelled chocolate eggs and mini flower pots filled with grape hyacinths. By the time I’ve finished there’ll be little room left for the food! Happy holidays everyone!