Caylin Harris

Go ahead — give this idea a whirl.

Holidays have a tendency to sneak up on us. Easter especially, because the date can change year to year. Luckily, you probably already have everything you need in order to get in on the egg-dying fun. Instead of buying one of those wasteful kits at the corner drug store, you really just need food coloring and white distilled vinegar. And eggs. You will definitely need some eggs.

I’m going to level with you and let you in on an important crafting secret. While you might see easy DIYs making the rounds on Pinterest, a lot of them don’t always work. One in particular? That idea to use a Sharpie or a paint pen to personalize a mug. While it might be tempting to draw something onto a mug for your favorite coworker or your kid’s teacher, it’s incredibly difficult to have it last for the long haul.

Sure, you can dye Easter eggs using a kit. The finished eggs will be cute and totally fine, but they won’t get your friends and family talking about how amazing and creative you are. If you want that to happen, well, you need to swing by the produce aisle when you do your shopping. What you need are a bunch of those stickers that go on lemons, apples, oranges, and the like. You’ll then put those stickers on your dyed eggs to make them look like cheeky versions of the real things.

Winter is coming … no, not really because it’s spring. But for you Game of Thrones fans anticipating the upcoming seventh season, it’s the perfect time of year to decorate your Easter eggs to look like they came straight from a dragon. You’ll need some felt or paper confetti dots, which you can make yourself with some scissors or a special hole puncher — or you can take a shortcut and just buy some that are already made. (We took the shortcut!

There’s a certain type of person who never has to wait for a drink at a party. For some reason their mere presence causes any bartender or cocktail waiter in a close proximity to hop to attention, like James Bond for instance — I’m pretty sure he’s never had to flag down a bartender to order his signature martini. And waiters with hors d’oeuvres probably flock to him with trays of cocktail hot dogs.

When you’re planning and paying for a wedding, eventually you start to see dollar signs. According The Knot’s 2016 Real Wedding Survey the average wedding cost is $35,329, which leaves brides looking to save where they can. For couples set on having a cake, one way to save money is to buck tradition and skip the specialty bakery.

I’ve always loved Halloween. Every year as a kid I’d dress up in my homemade costume and go door to door to ask strangers for candy. I’d shuffle through the crispy leaves, carrying my pillowcase and enjoying the faint chill in the air. But I’d shake my tiny fist at the people who had left their light off, or even worse, had the gall to give out boxes of raisins. So what I’m trying to say is that I’ve never had a traumatic Halloween-related experience.