St Patrick’s Day

I sure love a holiday where drinking is the norm, and the food is simple and yummy.  This blog follows a week of festive fun from a play date at a friends house to a local weekend parade event.

Let’s get festive. Made these legging super quick last year.  Got orange leggings, took green scrap material and used my shamrock cookie cutter to trace.  Hand sewed the patches on so when the holiday is done and over I can remove them and have the basic orange back again.  I think she looked adorable as it was a chilly day and she needed the warmth.

Time to get the house festive this pot of shamrocks set the mood all month long at my friend’s house.  My March mantel exploded with festive fun.  Full post here.
 The tables look nice but let’s bring out the food.  Breakfast is served on parade day morning and my husband loves being in his “lab” making unbelievable food.    We eat like kings and queens.  Keeping even the fruit festive makes little fingers want to reach for more at the play date. 
The food continued all day long with festive pasta for our little people and a traditional Irish dinner with corn beef and cabbage for the adults.  Let’s top it off with dessert and delicious it was.  An Oreo dream so pretty as it was yummy. 

Mantle Mojo

I’ve been overwhelmed when I look at my mantle since the day we moved in, two years ago.  The day we moved in all of our house plant ended up making this their home.  Slowly I have removed plant by plant spreading them out through the house.  Making room for other items that just haven’t found their forever home. I decided that I needed to face my fear and even up the score.  Went to my good pal Pintrest for a few tutorials and suggestions and than the hunting began.  I figured it wouldn’t be that hard with a last name of Dunn.  Pulling some Irish items I already had was super easy.   I found some fun wall art that has been in the basement looking for their spot, an adorable art project I did with my daughter when she was little and some other festive knick nacks.  

I did leave one plant cause I liked the green and how it hung over breaking the visual line of the stone mantle.  From there I just started adding.  It’s no materpiece nor will it be featured in any design magazine but I’m satisfied and feel like at least the score is now equal.