Happy St. Patrick's Day

I hope everyone enjoyed a super lucky and green St. Patrick's Day. We had corn beef and cabbage last night with my Mum...today was more about just wearing green. Although, we did have Irish Soda Bread for breakfast and managed a mini photo shoot before my doctor appointment. 

32 weeks! Just 8 short weeks to go!

Project Life: Weeks 10 and 11

The photos this week are a tad awful, but I guess they'll work.

Week 10:

 This was my birthday week. We didn't have great weather, like I always hope for, but it was a great week all the same.

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  I booked our family vacation this week, too. The cottage in the photo is the wonderful place we have stayed for the past couple years. It's one of my favorite places.

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When I first decided to start Project Life, I ordered the Big Variety Pack 1. When I got it I put all the pages in my album randomly (mostly). I've exchanged pages here and there, but for the most part stuck with the order I threw in there. This was the first time I had to work with the 6x6 squares. I really wasn't sure how I felt about this layout at first.  I didn't use all the pictures I printed, because I misjudged what would fit, but in the end I really liked how they turned out.

Week 11:

 

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I love how the gardening layout turned out.  We worked so hard in our new garden this Spring. It didn't ALL work out, but this week it looked beautiful and everything was beginning to bloom.

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Most of this layout is St. Patrick's Day. We had SUCH a wonderful day. The boys got to ride their tricycle for the first time and John got some really wonderful pictures of the boys and I. I even managed to cook a great Corn Beef and Hash. The You Are My Lucky Charm was a lunch note freebie from Amy Stoffel.

 

Today I got the Photo Pocket Pages Small Variety Pack 1. So SO excited to use these pages. I have a bunch of weeks coming up where these will come in handy.

 

As always I'm linking up with The Mom Creative for Project Life Tuesday. 

Lucky Wreath

I don't usually decorate a whole bunch for St. Patrick's Day, but I found this pattern for crocheted shamrocks and couldn't resist. 

I wrapped a dollar store wreath with some hemp rope I had, stuck the shamrocks on and voila a lucky wreath!

Here is a detailed picture:

I've got a few extras...so I'm thinking I'll make up a couple pins. Any other ideas?



Sham Rock

I decided it was finally time to try out some freezer paper stencils. Not as scary as I thought, but the cutting took forever because I had to get everything perfect and I was so worried about screwing up. I didn't have the right color fabric paints so I just went with acrylic. The shirts are a little stiff, but it's not too bad and the shirts have been through the wash a couple times without any problems.

We got the chance to show the shirts off at NTIF this past weekend. It's always nice to overhear people say how "cool" they think your crafty projects turned out. :o)
I got the idea for these shirts from All the Small Things. I love how they turned out. Punkin Patterns has a great tutorial on freezer paper stenciling if you want to check it out: here.