How to Make Cool Swirly Nail Polish Marbleized Easter Eggs

found this pic from 3 years ago in my Instagram feed!

Easter is around the corner.  I was having visions of these fun, swirly painted eggs we used to make.  We made them a few years back.  I scrounged through my Instagram feed from 3 years ago to find a couple of my favorite decorated Easter eggs ever.

My gals were experimenting with water marble techniques for nails.  We tried it with eggs and had amazing, swirly results.  Turned out we were not the first to transfer the water marbleizing technique to eggs.

For example, just watch this DIY video  – I particularly like the gal in the video tutorial’s sweet southern accent:

The great thing about making Cool Swirly Nail Polish Marbleized Easter eggs is that you  have everything you need for this fun craft project in your cupboards and kitchens.

Eggs?  – got ’em

Fun colored left over nail polishes?  – tons

A plastic container?  – sure

Toothpicks? – think so

Gloves? – yep!

Experiment with the number of colors you use and with the shades.  Making the designs in the water is half the fun.

As I was going through my Instagram feed from a few years back I came across this goodie as well:

aunt Cici’s handy work with her cute egg ladies wearing head scarves

Do you prefer to hallow out your eggs for painting or use hard-boiled eggs?  I find hallowing them out to be a bit stressful and tedious so I choose to hard boil.  I follow a blog called Gimme Some Oven.  Ali did a whole series on how to cook eggs this week.  It was awesome.  Here’s her video on how to get perfectly hard-boiled eggs.

Egg-cellent!  Next up, a healthier version of hard-boiled eggs.  Check back to my other site, OvenHug for quick, easy, and healthy recipe inspiration.

Pretty Polymer Clay Swirly Bowls

The girls and I stayed up last night making these beautiful bowls.  I’m looking at them right now and can hardly believe we made them ourselves!  We wanted to make something for the grandmas, aunts, and cousins we’ll be seeing here on Christmas.  They turned out so pretty I’m sure the girls will want to keep one for themselves as well.

All you need for this project is a few colors of oven bake clay a.k.a. Sculpey, a work area, a sharp knife, some oven safe bowls, and some metallic gold paint or a gold paint pen.

What I love most about this project is the less perfect you are in crafting these bowls, the prettier they come out.  We had a lot of fun coming up with sea shell looking versions and different sizes mainly by trial and error.  We used varying sizes of bowls, probably not all officially oven safe, but were careful handling the hot bowls.

Here are the steps to making these beautiful marbled clay bowls.

• Preheat Oven to 275 degrees Farenhiet
• Cut small pieces of 2 two 3 colors of clay and roll into a ball about 1/2 big with a sharp knife
• Roll the ball into logs
• Do the same with 2 pieces of white clay
• Add one last piece of either gray or black
• Lay the rolls next to each other and twist in opposite directions from the ends
• Bring the ends together and do the twisting again
• Do this whole process one more time
• Smoosh into a ball
• Flatten the ball
• Roll out with a rolling pin
• Cut around the edge of a glass or bowl
• Gently place in an oven safe bowl and press down lightly to form a bowl shape
• Bake in oven for 15 minutes
• Let cool 5 minutes
• Remove from baking bowl
• Let cool completely
• Paint rim of bowl with gold

The girls and I like to do a craft every year before Christmas during their time off school.  It’s a great way to bond and making gifts for others helps gets them in a giving spirit.  Last year we made silly, fun emoji ornaments with the same polymer clay and paint pens. If you’re looking for a great gift for someone who loves coffee, you may consider giving them hilarious mugs.

What do you think about these pretty bowls?  They are the perfect size to have at your bedside table to store earrings, and other small treasures.  Would you like to make one?  Would you like to have one?  Do you know someone who would appreciate getting one as a gift?  Let me know in the Comments – I would love to hear from you!  ? – Bita

The Best Omelet Popper Recipe (Mini Omelet Muffins)

I love breakfast! I love eating out and going to other people’s houses for breakfast even more. As a mostly stay at home mom, mornings start with washing, chopping, preparing. I crave for someone to wash, chop, and prepare things for me in the morning!

The reality is unless I’m on vacation or it’s Mother’s Day, I’m the one makin’ breakfast.  Never fear, the Best Omelete Poppers are here!  These mini omelets are easy to make, good for you, and super tasty.

Recently, my super awesome trainer, Angie Mercado of Fit2Beat celebrated the end of a specialized fitness training series with a fabulous home cooked meal in her home . She was sweet enough to send all her students home with a big bag of colorful produce.  I went home and filled basket full of veggies in a rainbow of colors.  Bell peppers, huge tomatoes, avocados, red onions, and zucchini adorned our kitchen island.

So let’s get to it! How to Make the Best Omelet Poppers!

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The omelet poppers are best when they are still warm. If you are making them ahead you can heat them up in the microwave and they are just as good.

Let me know if you try making the best omelet poppers around in the comments!

For more tasty, healthy recipes be sure to check out my blog, OvenHug.  Oven Hug features family recipes that are low-fat, low-sugar, and easy to prepare.

Find heart healthy recipes like:

• Spiced Apple Beet Salad
• Healthy Persian Sliders
• Fall Harvest Cherry Cranberry Quinoa Salad
• Easy Peasy Bow Ties with Cheese