Pink Adventures…always another new way to spread the Pink

Spring is a season with a true Pink Attitude…we start our spring cleaning and spring gardening…looking forward to the rebirth of our seasons… it’s such a “Pink” time of year. I started getting into the spirit of the season early in March with an Easter egg painting class offered here in New Braunfels.

We’re very proud of our German heritage and this class at the Sophienburg Museum and Archives celebrates the ancient spring ritual  known as Osterbrunnen during which time the village wells were cleaned and decorated. Eggs were painted during the winter months by folk art clubs (Volkskunstvereine). In the spring fountains, homes and parks are decorated with the painted beauties.

After a short history of the tradition, Karen Baese, our instructor taught us a few basic strokes and techniques for making dots and simple folk designs.

The easiest and most versatile technique was the simple dot!

Of course, our favorite color was pink!!!

See what I mean about the dots?

The kit came with a dozen eggs to make a smaller version of this hanging wreath.

Really stunning! In Northern Bavaria they use evergreens as the greenery. This was one of my favorite examples…

And check out this detail…

But my favorite picture of the holiday has to be this amazing example…

Is this “over the top” or what? I have one last picture to share… this is no “tea party’…look at their beverage of choice…

I think of beer and all sorts of celebrations, but painting Easter eggs while having a brew was a rather new idea…however,   we saw lots of pictures of egg painting-beer drinking ladies…so I bought a six-pack (my choice was a Mexican favorite not a German ale) and I have my paints in several shades of pink all set to create my own version of an Osterbrunnen decoration.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to thank Beverly for hosting as you make the rounds today. Have a lovely Pink Week. http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Panchita Plays Lotteria

The Happy Homemaker Tag Along Swap is into the third month and it’ posting day…Here at Riverside Studios  Panchita is all dressed up with no place to go…yet…I’m a bit behind on my tags this month and so I’ll post later, but here’s a hint:Panchita will be all decked out in a traditional sequined falda and sombrero…but poor thing, she’s got to wait until I can get to embellishing and staging the tag. She is such a good sport as she holds the pose with a big sonrisa on her face until I get back to her.

She plans an evening of Mexican Bingo called Lotteria with her friends….It’s played with picture cards that are very colorful…Sorry for the delay, but life got in the way this week.