Happy St. Patty's Day ☘ 2013

We celebrated St. Patty's day with full heart this year! 

Lucky the Leprechaun came for a visit this year. He brought us some Lucky Charms for breakfast. As well as Cruz a new St. P day shirt. See Cruz hates green... and doesn't own any green. 

After Church we had a traditional St. P day meal of corn beef and cabbage with Irish soda bread.

We also jazzed it up with some other GREEN foods such as guacamole chips, green jello, and a electric lime green drink. For dessert we had pistachio ice cream. 

Not sure I am a fan of green jell-o or electric lime drinks... but all in all it was a fun dinner!!

I saw that Irish blessing online, and I thought it was a perfect wish for St. P day. So I had to make it into a little tag, for the lucky charms. ;)

Hope you all have had the Irish Luck with ya this month.

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We have had pretty fun St. P day's celebrations over the years...
2012
2011
(2011, probably the most festive)
2010
2009

Kiss Me I'm Irish... 2012

Goodbye March... and hello April!

But not without a little Saint Patty's Day Post!
This year we wanted to celebrate Saint Patty's Day, but we also wanted to keep it healthy. We are working on being more healthy right now. :) So, for dinner we had a LEAN and GREEN meal.
The decor, was just what we had on hand. Gold place-mats, white plates with green accents with other dishes. Maybe not as festive as last year's traditional dinner, (see here) but still yummy!

Grilled zucchini, Green "Shamrock" peppers, Mixed greens salad, with grilled lime tilapia!

The "Shamrock" peppers was an idea I got from Pinterest.

We also had Peach Crystal Light, with a shamrock straw, also found from pinterest.

And the napkin rings were rainbow rick-rack, with a tag saying... Kiss Me I'm Irish, for today!

I don't know why but my Husband says "Kiss me I'm Irish" all the time. Mostly when he comes home from work. LOL. I always say I don't kiss you because your Irish... because, he's not. I kiss you because I love you, silly. However, for Saint Patrick's day I am all about being Irish... for a day! :)

Oh, and I made my husband put on his only shirt that has green, and it also is perfect with a shamrock on it; we got it a few years ago for this very holiday. He's NOT a green fan, however I LOVE GREEN!

Hope you had a fun St. Patty's Day!

A Festive St. Patrick's Day!!

Lucky the leprechaun (free download here) made a visit to our house to surprise Cruz. All he had to do was follow the rainbow to find some of Lucky's golden treasure, and lucky charms. 

My Mom and Dad made this oh, so yummy Irish dinner. Corn beef and cabbage never tasted so good. We tried Irish soda bread for the first time. It was super yummy. My Mom did such a good job decorating the table in green and white. I didn't really get a picture, but it was very festive. 

Cruz was desperate for green... he took a shamrock from the wall to wear to dinner. 

Hope you too had a HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!!

Lucky Little Leprechaun

Lucky my Little Leprechaun and I are getting ready for Saint Patrick's day!

Download Lucky the Leprechaun for yourself by clicking on him.

Disney has some fun ideas... HERE

(I got my Leprechaun there and colored him in illustrator.)

I also like all the festive things eighteen25 has on her blog... HERE

Other things...


St.P-day love note sayings...
Because you are my sunshine, and I am your Rainbow...
(Cruz, (my hubby) always says Love you Rainbow... when I have said Love you Sunshine.)
Lucky to be in LOVE with you.
You are my LUCKY CHARM.
Kiss me I'm Irish.


Leprechaun Visits...
Turn Milk Green
Green foot prints around the house
Little messes with a shamrock 
(Not sure I'd ever do that, since I'd have to clean it up afterwards.)

Treat Ideas From the Store...

Lucky Charms

Skittles

Rollos

Hershey's Treasures

Gold (Almond) Kisses

From the Kitchen... 

(I would list links here but seriously google them... there are lots of ideas.)

Irish Soda Bread

(I saw that Kneaders Bakery & Cafe are selling Irish Soda bread)

Rainbow Pancakes

Rainbow layered Jello

Rainbow Cake and or Cupcakes

Root Beer or Cream Soda Ice Cream Floats

I am planing a for a festive St. Patty's day. 
(I think I will be festive, and yet simple... since I do work all day and such.)

I hope you are doing the same. 

We have no kids, but we celebrate any time we have a chance. 

(We even celebrated ∏  (pi) day 3.14.2011. More to come on that later.)

Any great ideas let me know.

subway art (MARCH)

Sometimes it is OK to use font's that are not on my APPROVED list. I think this is a good example. Very few of these font's would be graphic designer's approved list. But I do think that it turned out well. Successful lunch break time used wisely, don't ya think?

I made this subway art for my home.

What do you think? Leave me a comment, I'd love to hear.

Download this FREE subway art for your Saint Patrick's Day decor HERE!

(Fits 8x10 frame.)

© Christina Marcano. For personal use only.

Oh, and I still have things to post for valentines day.  As well as president's day. I was actually planning on saving this post for the first of March, but I accidentally published it. So, enjoy!

2010 St. Patrick's day

Just home from NEW YORK....

And have to say Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

We had such a good time!!!

Cruz starts his new job today.... may you have the LUCK of the Irish with you today love love!
I Love you.

And Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone. 

St. Patty's Day 2009 cookie fun

We had some friends over for a little St. Patrick's Day fun!

Everyone was such a good sport to wear green and we had fun making cookies... and decorating them.

Shamrocks, butterflies, and flowers etc... all delicious cookies, and some tasty green drinks.

Cheers to St. Patrick's Day!

Cruz actually hates green... so I have to say I was impressed when he was willing to get a festive shamrock t-shirt for St. Patrick's Day. Love it when people will be festive.