Super Late St. Patty's Day

I am super late with this post. If you wanna be all fancy-schmancy in blog land you have to complete your projects weeks in advance and post them all so people can copy you. Ya well. That didn't happen for me. I had this great idea...I started to work on it....and it took me forever. But I stuck it out till the end and got all the projects I wanted to do completed. So here they are, super late, but still Ca-ute!!

The first one I completed was this cute set of blocks. I copied the idea from the blog "How Does She". It turned out darling!


The second completed project and the one that took me the longest is this jar of shamrocks. My mom had these jars in her DI pile and I rescued them. I thought "there has to be something I can do with these?!" So I had the brilliant idea to cut out a bunch of shamrocks from felt, kinda just stitch them together and stuff them with something to make them puffy. Yeah, all those steps took ages but I like the end result. I also stitched little scraps of green fabric on each one and added a button. So fun!


The third project was a fun segment I saw on Studio 5. They had fabric designer Heather Bailey on their show and she made these cute fabric flowers. If Darren could make one so could I!! So I found the instructions on her blog and made one for my darling daughter to wear to school. I cannot sew. It's definitely a fact after making that little number. I decided to layer two of the flowers together for more contrast. You should have seen me and the amount of thread I decided was necessary to hold it together. My poor mother-in-law and sister-in-law probably would have died from trying not to laugh at me. Oh well. K loved it and that's all that matters!




And last but not least I saw these super cute mini cupcakes on the Picky Palate. I wanted to make them the minute I saw them. They were so yummy!!!! I'm gonna change up the food coloring and make them for many more holidays. I made a plate for K's teacher and she delivered it and said "I'm so lucky you are my teacher" On St. Patty's Day nite we also delivered plates to all the G-parents with the kids saying "We are so lucky you're our Grandparents!" It was so cute and all the grandparents seemed so suprised and excited by the little treat.



Here is a pic of my little display. Looking at it here it looks a little sad compared to all the elaborate ones you see in crafty blog land. It sits in my kitchen on top of my pie/fruit/game cupboard that I got from my Gma. The cupboard is a 100 years old and I love it. I smiled each time I walked by and saw my cute little decorations.


Now for some Easter decorations.....I should have had those done the day after St. Patty's Day but what ya gonna do?

P.S.
I take these pictures with my flash and they seem so flipping bright but then without the flash I worry they are too dark. I don't have a digital SLR (still haven't found that JERK with my money tree) so any suggestions for me on how to make my pic's look better?