~our leprechaun trap this year~

 Our leprechaun trap is ready!

We'll see if we can catch the little bugger this year.

 This year we're trying a lean-to type of trap.

The gold is attached to a string that is tied

to the stick that's holding the lean-to up. Once it falls,

the trap door will come down and he'll be trapped.    

 And just for added security this year,

my son says he will be placing his Lego guys around

it to guard the leprechaun once he's trapped. 

 Have a rockin St. Patrick's Day.

 

 

~our leprechaun trap~

We made our leprechaun trap.

Want to see?

We made our trap out of a 1 liter soda bottle.

My husband cut the top off and then we used

scrapbook paper and a glue gun to decorate it.

We made the little ladder out of twigs from our yard.

It's primitive I know, but hey, it's our first leprechaun trap.  

We didn't have gold to bait it with so we

left pennies instead :)

We didn't catch the little bugger but

he did leave the kids a treat.

 Chocolate coins wrapped in green foil.

This was the extent of our green breakfast. 

I told you it wasn't going to be over the top.

I taped these Styrofoam shamrocks ($$ store)

to toothpicks and stuck them in the food.

Hope you all had a Happy St. Patrick's Day. 

 

~Pinspiration-St. Patrick's Day~

I've never done anything for my family for

St. Patrick's Day....other than dress them 

in green or pinch their cute cheeks :) 

I don't want my kids to think that every

"holiday" warrants a gift or a big ridiculous

celebration.  That being said,

I've found a couple cute things on Pinterest

that I think I might try this year.

I love the idea of a green breakfast.

I have to make them breakfast anyway....

I might as well make it all green.

This breakfast from the blog eighteen25 is so cute.

I'm not going to go full out with the 

printables and food labels but I'm definitely

going to be making the green food.

This is something I can't wait to do with my little guy:

Leprechaun traps!

How cute is this?

This idea is from Family Fun and it looks like they 

have a couple other cute ideas to catch those

pesky leprechauns! Check them out. 

How cute is this......

...pot o'gold at the end of the rainbow

from ourbestbites.com

Click on any of these pictures to be directed

to the sites mentioned. 

Do you do anything special for St. Patrick's Day?

I'm curious to find out if most people 

celebrate it or blow it off as another

silly holiday that isn't really a holiday.....

you know what I mean right?

 

~my St.Patty's day decorations~

 
 

Before I had kids, St. Patrick's Day was

just an excuse to go drink green beer with

my friends after work. Back then most of

the bars would hand out free green beaded

necklaces on St. Patrick's Day. I'm sure they

were getting them for free from the booze

companies because they usually had some

 cheap plastic pendant dangling, advertising

their product. I think I got them for 

every holiday. In fact, don't look too closely at

the pictures from my son's recent pirate birthday

party....you may see some of these necklaces 

adorning the tables. 

Who would have ever thought

10 years ago that the cheap plastic Jagermeister necklace

would become a favorite toy of both of my kids

and something that I would end up using

to decorate with at my own child's birthday party?  

Yeah....me neither. 

Whew...I got off topic there and now I feel 

O-L-D!

In the past I haven't really decorated for

St. Patrick's Day. I got a couple cute decorations

as gifts for Christmas and my birthday so I decided

to do a little decorating this year.

Here is the shelf in my living room that has become

the centerpiece of most of my holiday decorations.

I've been having fun decorating it for each holiday

and my son gets so excited any opportunity we

get to put something different and festive up. 

You probably remember the cute shamrock bunting

that my friend made me for my birthday.

Doesn't it look cute hung up?

I wanted to make one of these and do a giveaway

for St. Patrick's Day but I didn't get around to

it soon enough. We've all been sick here 

for the past two weeks and it's thrown everything

off schedule. Sorry :(

The other gift that you may or may not remember is

the framed St. Patty's Day saying..."keep calm...".

I got it as a gift for Christmas from a good friend

and she included something for every holiday 

that I can switch it out with.  

The random shamrocks you see on the shelf

are something I got at the Dollar Store. There

were several in a package and I just glued some

to a few dowels and placed them in an old

1/2 pint jar I had. The others I simply taped to 

my candle and plant. Nothing fancy.

 Wouldn't it have looked cute if I'd painted the

dowels gold? I thought of that but didn't have

the ambition to follow thru with it. I threw this

all together last night. I love old jars and this

is one of my favorites!

My new favorite St. Patrick's Day decoration:

The leprechaun my son made at pre-school

last week. Apparently he likes monster trucks.

This will be one that I keep :)

So, I have a project to share that I'm a bit 

embarrassed with how it turned out but

I'm going to share it anyway.

You can make one and learn from my mistakes.

Let me show you the product first

and then I'll tell you what I do and don't like about it. 

Don't laugh.

 You're laughing aren't you?

Either that or saying to yourself,

"I can't believe she's blogging about that."

This blog is a collaboration of my hits and misses.

This, my friends, is an example of one of my misses.

First off-I intended for it to look like 

scrabble subway art. The first thing

I did wrong was the fabric I chose to cover my

board. I think it would have been better had

I used a solid color. The polka-dots make it 

a bit busy....then throw in the zebra print

shamrock and it's a hot mess. 

Then let's add the way I spelled St. Patty-

I don't know if it's correct or not but when

I read it on here I think of Patty like a woman

or a beef patty. Hey-other than those

things.....I like it. I thought the rainbow

tiles colored were a cute touch and I 

like the words I chose. I even like the shamrock

and think it would look better if 

the background was solid.

 I suppose

I could rip all this off and re-cover the board

with a plain green fabric....I have some.

Uh yeah...like that's going to happen.

I was too lazy to paint the dowels-remember?

So, I'll leave it like this for now.

But next time.....