St. Paddy's Day - Scones and Rainbow Stamps

Happy Day after St. Paddy's Day!!!!!!

I hope you enjoyed my week before St. Patrick's Day party! I had fun :) I also learned that I'm not great at posting daily, but hey, it's better than what I've done in the past! So long as I keep it up...hehe.

Anyways, here is the outfit I wore on St. Patrick's Day:

Plaid Shirt - Thrifted
Black T-shirt - Wet Seal
Black Cami - Maurices
Green Skirt - Thrifted
Flats - TOMS - Nordstrom.com
Shamrock Earrings - Claires
Celtic Knot Necklace - Irish Fest.

I love this combo! That shirt is my absolute favorite right now.

It looked warmer than it was :P Afterwards I went inside and put leggings on!



Has anybody tried this hairstyle? It's something I made up myself.
First you make two low pigtails. Then section the pigtail as if you are going to do a three strand braid. Individually braid each strand so that you have three mini braids and secure with small bands. Braid all of them together and secure with a large band. Remove small bands. Repeat with second pigtail.
Make sense?



My sisters have similar necklaces to this. My eldest has one with a shamrock and my other sister's has a Celtic trinity knot.

 

 

My shoes.

 

 

I made gluten and dairy free scones for the first time!!!!!!! They're amazing. Here is the recipe. I did make a few changes since her recipe wasn't dairy free. I used almond milk instead of regular and spectrum spread vegetable shortening in place of butter.  Robert is not allergic to eggs so I didn't bother replacing those. I also did not have the self-raising flour mix she used so I used my flour blend (brown rice flour, potato flour, and tapioca starch) + 2 tsp. of GF baking powder.

 

Topped with black current jam. YUM.

 

 

We went over to Robert's mom's house for dinner. She fixed corned beef with potatoes, cabbage and other veggies. A GF bread with pesto and manchego sheep's cheese. And some homemade coleslaw. It was gooooood.

 

 

Sooo. I did not have time to finish the Celtic craft I was going to share, so I will share this instead. Around this time last year, I bought this adorable little notebook from TangleCrafts on Etsy. IT'S SO COLORFUL I'M GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!! I love it. I turned it into an address book, so I guess you could call it a craft. Sorta. This lady's stuff is amazing so be sure to check out her shop!

 

 

Well, that is all for now, folks. I hope you all had a very Irish-y St. Patrick's Day! Cheers :)

The Week Before St. Paddy's Day - Day 7 - Plaid and Watercolors

Here is yesterday :

March 16th, 2015

Blue Plaid Shirt - Abbey Dawn - ThredUp
Green Celtic T-shirt - Thrifted
Jeans - Wal-mart
Celtic Necklace - Gift
Matching Earrings - Irish Fest.
Flip flops - K-mart
Sheep Bag - Blarney Castle Gift Shop - Cork, Ireland
 

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I'm loving this outfit! Blue and green together are just awesome.

It was really bright outside yesterday. I had to darken the pics because it was so blinding.



Yup. Celtic flip flops.



My Wacky Woolies bag from Ireland :D

The Food:

The top of the Cottage Pie Robert and I made.

The innards.

The Craft:

A watercolor/acrylic splattering of Ireland. This was one of the pictures I painted for Shaylynn's 30 Day Drawing Contest. I'll be sharing the rest of them sometime...soon.

Feel free to join in The Week Before St. Paddy's Day Party! Share your Irish outfit, food, and craft the week leading up to St. Patrick's Day. Link up by sharing your link in a comment on one of these posts :) If you can only do one day, that's great too!

Cheers!

~Mary

The Week Before St. Paddy's Day - Day 5 - Faeries and Sprinkles

Here was yesterdays outfit/food/craft:

March 14, 2015

The Outfit:

Purple Plaid Shirt - Dunnes in Cork, Ireland
Fairy Tank Top - Irish Fest.
Gray Long Sleeved V-neck - Thrifted
Blue Plaid Mini Skirt - Thrifted
Gray Leggings - Wal-mart
Rainbow Polka Dot Wellies - Wal-mart
Fairy Necklace - Civil War Re-enactment

This is my doorway to faerieland.

Outside photoshoots are such fun!

This is another outfit I've never combined before. I like it!

I've had this necklace for forever.

Almost all the snow is melted! SPRING IS HERE!!!!

Perfect weather for these.

The Food:

Robert and I made Irish Stew from scratch yesterday. It was REALLY good!



Biscuits from the other night.

I had extra batter from the cupcakes, so I made a 6 in. two layer cake. I was trying to use up some sprinkles, if you can't tell....

Mmmm, SPRINKLES.

The Craft:

I made this Shamrock Headband for my  Etsy shop! Check it out here if you are interested :)

Feel free to join in The Week Before St. Paddy's Day Party! Share your Irish outfit, food, and craft the week leading up to St. Patrick's Day. Link up by sharing your link in a comment on one of these posts :) If you can only do one day, that's great too!

Cheers!

~Mary

A Month of Minions

Hey there, peoples!

This is going to be a catch up post since I've been horrible at posting this summer. So, you saw what happened at the beginning of June (my super awesome India party), but I neglected to share the rest of the month with you. I know. I'm smacking myself for you right now. *SMACK*

Here's the story guys:

I have tons of beautiful flowers this year! They were the prettiest in June, I think.

There was a rainbow.

We acquired stones to make a campfire ring in our backyard from my sister and brother-in-law. Now we have something fun in our backyard! It's basically been empty until this summer. None of our trees can hold swings so we've been trying to think up other fun things to add back there. We now have a place for a campfire AND a badminton/volleyball net. I love badminton.

I did a project for my craft room! *dances* I didn't like my bland cork board. So I raided my fabric stash.

All I did was measure the cork board (the cork part, not the frame) and add 1/2 inch to all sides before cutting. You will be tucking the edges of the fabric underneath the frame of the cork board, so you'll want the extra 1/2 inch for that. I had to trim mine a bit more to get an exact fit.

After tucking in the edges, space out thumb tacks evenly across the edge. This will keep the fabric secure. And that's it!

One of my Sunday outfits that month.

Showing off my shoes :D

A little minion helped me draw these minions. Can you tell?

We drew a purple minion too!

We had a minion themed birthday for my brother-in-law!  A number 1 for another year older :D
And cheesecake. Yummy cheesecake.

We wore our minion shirts. You can't see mine but you can kinda see Robert's. Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba-Nana :D

June was just a totally minion month! We went to one of our local-ish amusement parks and won a minion!!!!!! The bear was from our first attempt to get a minion, but he's cute so not a total loss. We usually never play games at fairs or other similar amusement places, but they usually don't have minions. I love my minion. The games at this park were surprisingly fair compared to the ones at our small town's crappy fair.

Rainbow sugar.

*giggles*

I read this lovely book while on a camping trip. It is my favorite of the trilogy. It also made the camping trip bearable. I'm not overly fond of camping. Especially when one's tent gets rained on while one is trying to sleep. Yeah. Not doing that again!

That pretty much sums up what happened in June....India party, improving the yard, amusement park with the fam, MINION PARTY, lots of reading, and damp camping. A good month, I think :) I hope it was good for you too!

Ta-ta for now,

~Mary