My New Pair of Fingerless Gloves.

So not terribly long ago, Treskie, a fellow blog friend, had this brilliant idea to re-purpose some of her favorite socks, one of which regrettably developed a hole in the toe region. They are now a pretty cool pair of fingerless gloves.

She provided an awesome step-by step picture tutorial, which you can find here.

Now, I LOVE fingerless gloves. I have a few pairs that I've found at Claire's and I've attempted to crochet myself a pair (I believe I mentioned them in an earlier post). I didn't get very far. Yet! I haven't given up. The thought just never crossed my mind that I could turn a pair of socks into a pair of gloves. I'm just loving this! There are so many cute and colorful socks out there these days.

Fortunately I had a pair of socks that I loved, but didn't wear very often because of the length. These one's are quite a bit longer than the one's Treskie used, but I really like them. They keep my arms warm!

They go very well with my fedora.

Thanks for the tutorial, Treskie! I'm in love with my new gloves :)


Here are some random pictures of the month:

My Dad found this "Olivia" notebook for me! It looks great in the Phantom of the Opera room. I had been thinking of finding a cute notebook to write lyrics in, and I think this one fits the bill!

I'm in love.

I've been reading "The Faerie Path" by Frewin Jones lately and I was tickled to find that when I removed the dustcover, it looked really lovely on the inside!

Pretty colors! They make me happy.

Ta-ta and Cheerio! Have a lovely night or day wherever you are :)

A Really, REALLY, Late St. Patrick's Day

Hi!

I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while! In the past few weeks a lot of people have come to visit, and I hosted a St. Patrick's day party on the 15th. There were 27 people in my small house for that party. Yeah, you read that right. Therefore, it has been kinda crazy around here. The party was awesome though, and we got to see family that we don't get to very often :)
 The week after the party was my recuperation week, just to do nothing or anything I wanted. Well, kind of anyway. Work doesn't fall into the "fun" category, but other than that I had a good bit of time to tackle some small projects. I utterly failed at convincing myself to sit down and blog. That is something I need to work on.
 In my next post I'll be posting about some of those projects, but for now I'll just show you some of the St. Paddy's day pics.

Unfortunately, I can't share pictures of the people who came to visit. Most of my family doesn't want their pictures out on the web, and I completely understand that. Some I still have to ask, but I'll save that for another day. It kind of stinks, because I love family blogs with lots of pictures and I would love for my blog to be like that......but there are also a lot of weird, creepy people online that I don't want my family exposed to. So for now it's just me and Robert.

Here are some pics of the par-tay:

My rainbow with a pot of gold. I put corn chips in it for the "gold" :D

A rainbow of Jelly Beans for a project below.

Rainbow Bark! I found this on Pinterest. Here's the link to the recipe.

A project for the kiddos, also found on Pinterest. Source.

I bought the Reeses miniatures that are wrapped in gold, and Mom helped hide them in the basement for the kids to find :)

Celtic decor.

A quick picture of what I was wearing, before the party craziness.

My sister made a veggie Irish flag and......

.....a fruit rainbow! Nice,yes?

It looks like leprechauns invaded my bathroom!

And here I am in the sheep shirt I found in Ireland :)

I hope your St. Patrick's Day was a blast!

Mardi Gra/Fat Tuesday

HI!

I meant to post this earlier today, but you know how that goes. Time flies by without you noticing :P

Right now I'm watching "The Princess and the Frog" with my hubby. It's at the part where Ray *spoiler alert* passes on and becomes a star. *sniff sniff* *sob* That just chokes me up!

I'm sorry, I'm getting distracted.

There it's done.

Okay, where were we? Ah.

I always like watching that around Mardi Gras. It just gets me in the mood for all the New Orleans goings on this time of year. 

That brings me to the subject of my post. Mardi Gras. A.k.a Fat Tuesday. My family never celebrated Mardi Gras growing up, but being Catholic, Fat Tuesday was always a big day of eating up the last of whatever you were giving up for Lent, before Ash Wednesday. 

I wish people wouldn't look at me like I had a chimpanzee on my head when I have a cross of ashes on my forehead. I realize some people have never heard of it, but it's still kind of ridiculous. Anymore, I just brush it off. (Not the ashes! People's comments.)

So, back to Mardi Gras. I didn't really know the reason why we had never celebrated it until recently. And I was like, oh that's why.

If you didn't know,  here's a link to a website about how it all started and why it's ended up the way it is now. Just go to the history and traditions section.

But I also discovered after reading up on the history of Mari Gras, that I actually kind of like it. The beautiful masks, the beads, the king cake, the beignets (french donuts), the colors, etc.
And if you ever want to visit New Orlean's during Mardi Gras, but have been afraid to because of the wild college spring-breakers, you just have to know where to go. There are family friendly streets to go to that don't allow the wild people or any of that nasty stuff to pass through.

I was really happy to hear that :)

So today, I dressed accordingly:

I even wore my beads to work.

The masks in the pic below are one I've been working on for my Etsy shop.

And here are some random Mardi Gras pictures that I thought looked pretty awesome.

Look what my sister got me for my late Valentine's Day present! Just look at it! IT'S ADORABLE! I need to think up a name for it.....

For dinner tonight I made Chicken breast with Chili seasoning, chopped up tomatoes, and cilantro. It smelled and tasted wonderful!

And french cut beans, just for kicks. I seasoned these with Garam Masala, and Salt and Pepper.

Well since it is so late, I shall end this post here. 

Happy Beginning of Lent to you! And Happy CLEAN Mardi Gras!

Cheers!