Dyeing Easter eggs is a big deal for my family. My grandmother has a Polish heritage, and dyeing eggs in an Eastern European style (Pysanka) is something we’ve been doing for at least 4 generations. Pysanka involves taking a pencil with a pin stuck in the eraser end, dipping that pin into melted wax, then…
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