The Leprechaun stopped by..

The Leprechaun has been busy! He makes a mess and throws gold coins all over the front yard, then leaves his bucket outside so Lilly can see it! If you eat a lot of Shamarock spinach then he comes!



Leprechaun House

I made this leprechaun house for Lilly and Raley... well mostly Lilly since she is really into leprechauns right now. It sits on our kitchen table on top of a cake stand. I didn't really know what I was going to do with it but I love making Glitter houses they remind me of my beloved Putz Houses! Anyways, We have been into trying to trap this leprechaun and we set the house out to try and "trap" him with it... annnd that's were my idea ended ... but then Lilly and I got to talking and thought maybe he would like to come live in it for a bit! So at night and during the day I have done different things. One night he got into the Veggie Straws and took some to eat into his house and made a mess outside of it. Another night he found some yellow fabric and sequins on it and dragged into his house to make a bed. He has also turned the cake stand upside down and and set the house on it sideways with the blanket over it. He has done lots of other things threw out the house to make mischief!

I will have a new St.Patrick's day post every day sometimes maybe two a day until St.Paddy's Day!

St.Patricks day coffee filters

This week me and Lilly are doing Rainbow themed activities!! So fun a great way to lead up to St.Patrick's day and include Noah's ark. Yesterday we did rainbow coffee filters!! It was super easy and Lilly had a blast!! I just took water in little bowls and used food dye. Lilly was able to add the drops of food die to the water and thought she was hot stuff doing that! I tried dipping the filters in the water annnnd they got soaked, so then I got paint brushes out and tried that way and it worked like a charm! I folded Lilly's in half and had her paint a rainbow and say the color out loud as she painted them! I would recommend using a lot of dye and not so much water because the colors are way cooler when they are brighter! I am going to make a garland out of these and hang them up!!

St.Patrick's Day Wreath

I have been wanting to make a cupcake wreath so bad but I did not buy enough cupcake liners and they only had one straw wreath so I came up with this!

I was being cheap when I made this so I just used what I had around the house. Used white leftover Christmas ribbon, then ran out of white so used green. Felt scraps to make the bunting ( I love buntings!) and used coffee filters to make the rainbow. For the coffee filters I used food die and dipped the coffee filters in the food die colored water then because I am impatient I put them in the microwave for 30 secs a pair ( I did two of each color) then folded in half and half again annnd then folded in half again !! I cut the bottom half of the filter off in a curve. I then opened the donut shaped coffee filter and cut one snip so it was one long piece and could wrap around the wreath. I used the bottom half of the filter that I cut off to make the little rainbow circles I just made them look scalloped and smaller then each other and hot glued the bunting to a pipe cleaner!! Tada!! The coffee filter/cupcake liner part is not so puffy and HUGE in person... I am not sure why it looks that way...they do say the camera adds 10lbs ;p

http://tatertotsandjello.blogspot.com/2010/01/whimsical-valentine-wreath.html

This is the tutorial on making a cupcake wreath!! While you are on Tatertots and Jello you really need to look around this is one amazing blog!!!

It has a cute behind too!! Not really, you can see where I ran out of ribbon !! But I figured if my description of how I cut the coffee filters was bad then this pic might help!! Oh and EVERYTHING was hot glue gunned on this sucker!!

St.Patrick's Day Garland's

Heeeeello!!! Real quick I wanted to show the St.Patrick's Day garland that I made and how the coffee
filters turned out! I made a rag garland using Green felt and shamrock fabric then I bought the sparkly shamrock garland at Joann's but added extra shamrocks to it ( they were the sticker shamrocks that you can get for a dollar at Joann's) then used the gold coins and drilled a hole in them and hung them on the rag garland! you can see the coffee filter garland thrown up there too! Yes its alot but Lilly likes it!Oh the reason for ONE gold coin is I thought it would be really cute to have gold coins hanging down. Buuuut Lilly about stroked when she saw what I did with her coin!! So I figured best not poke the bear if ya know what I mean ;)

Shhhh a Leprechaun came!!!

Ok, ok so I'm a big, huge fat lier... Do I feel bad? No not really! Why? Because Now Lilly eats all her green!! What the heck am I talking about? Well so I made Lilly a bagel with chive cream cheese and as soon as I pushed her plate to her she so nicely pushed it back and said "No Thank you, Me no like the green stuff".... well crap I thought. Sooo I told her "Sure you do!! Its shamrock!!","If you eat enough of it then MAYBE a leprechaun will come and .... "YESSSS??? will he bring me a present?!!  Lilly said". Let me say that My mother ALWAYS made any holiday amazing for me when I was younger and I remember it so fondly and want the same holiday fun for my daughters so pleeeease don't think poorly of me for lieing my booty off its all in good fun!!

Sheez, so I bought two packs of the plastic gold coins at Michaels and then scattered them in the front lawn! I wanted little black cauldrons but I couldn't find any so I used the princess buckets that I bought a long time ago for a buck a piece and stored away. Lucky for me she is still young enough that she doesn't realize that leprechauns do not carry around princess buckets, Umm or that they are not real!! Lil and Ray had a blast it was like hunting for Easter eggs but with gold coins!!! I told Lilly that before she goes to bed she has to stick her and Raleys buckets with gold coins inside back out on the front porch so the leprechaun can have his money back and if you eat enough shamrocks then he will hid them again ! I have done this a couple more times since and on St.Patrick's day I plan to use the gold covered chocolate ones and let them keep there buckets! I did not start off with the chocolate ones because I did not want it to be about the candy but the fun of find the coins!