St. Pat's Beauty (Free Image)

She's a beauty all right!  Don't you love her top hat and bright pink cheeks?  She's got the sweetest plaid bow tie, too.  She's another bridge tally from my collection.  

It's amazing how many cute bridge tallies are out there.  Bridge reached its heyday in America during the 30's and 40's and that's the era many of my tallies are from.  (If you would like to know more about the history of bridge, you can read about it HERE.)

She's been hanging from the knob on my office door.  I love seeing her every day!

Do you like her?  You can download her HERE.

Have a great rest of your week!

St. Pat's Fun + Free Image + Who Won?

All smiles - that's me!  We just got back from visiting my daughter and her husband (and, of course, their HUGE Airedale puppy, Percy). Let me just say, he is already 60 pounds and is not through growing!

Margarida from All Is Full of Love and I have a giveaway going on that ends now!  Who won?  Let's look at another project first!

Margarida has a lovely selection of colors available in these pillow boxes - go to All Is Full of Love to see them all.  You'll also find patterns:  stripes, dots and hearts - so cute!

I used a vintage bridge tally for decoration.  Love her costume!  You can download her HERE.  Just right click and download.

I've got a couple of quick tutorials to make shamrocks.  One to make the chenille stem shamrock that I used on the last post (on the handle of the shamrock treat cup) and also the felt shamrock that I used on the pillow box above.

To make the chenille stem shamrock you just need one chenille stem.  The last picture doesn't even have any adhesive yet - it holds together really well.  I used hot glue and just pressed the middle of the shamrock to the handle of the treat cup.  

I used a die to cut the hearts and just cut a strip for the stem using scissors.  Easy!

On to the giveaway!!!

Who won the 

The winner of all the green is:

Jenny!

Thank you to everyone who left such sweet comments - wish we had a giveaway for everyone!  As always, Jenny was selected randomly by my darling husband - plucked her name right out of the bowl!  We like the old fashioned way sometimes!!  

Jenny:  please email me lhairston@cox.net or click on it in my right sidebar.  I'll need your address to mail you all your goodies!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Dennis had to work this morning to finish up a floor plan, so I picked him up for lunch.  Several streets were blocked off for the St. Patrick's Day parade.   We saw a little bit of it - the Mexican restaurant we went to is right on the parade route.  So fun with everybody wearing tiny green hats and big green bows!

Hard to resist these cuties from Peggy Loves Vintage.  She has a lot of sweet vintage images in her store.  

(Sorry the image is a little blurry - but I sold all of these before I realized the picture was so bad!)  The shamrock border is from the Silhouette store.

Luck of the Irish to you and  don't forget to wear green on Monday!

Top O' the Morning to You!

Top O' the Morning to You and a little chocolate, too!  Pretending to be Irish is even more fun with chocolate involved!

You may remember last month's Valentine Kiss Countdown.  I found that Qbees Quest has another wonderful idea for Kisses and St. Pat's Day.  That would be the Hershey Kiss Shamrock - she's one smart cookie!   The hat is a template that I've had for quite sometime from Clear and Simple.  (I couldn't find it on their website - maybe they don't have templates anymore?)  I put a package of chocolate coins inside.

I think this shamrock would make a tasty and fun gift for St. Patrick's Day.  I'm going to make several more.  And I won't (maybe) eat all the Kisses!

ETA:  The winner of my giveaway for the PaperHaus Magazine blog hop is Wendy!   Wendy -  email me with your address and I'll get it off to you!