Top Five Favorite St. Patrick's Day Projects

Today I am sharing some of my past St. Patrick's Day projects that I have really loved. If anyone is looking for some last minute project ideas, these were all very simple ones to make!

St. Patrick's Day Rag Wreath

St. Patrick's Day Fabric Balls

Wood Block "LUCKY" Letters

Split Pea Vase

St. Patrick's Day Vignette

What are some easy ways you decorate for the holidays?

Happy Friday!

St. Patrick's Day Vignette: Gold, Green, and White

I can't believe St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner! Wasn't it just Valentine's Day? I swear, this year has just flown by so far!

This year, I tried to keep things simple for my St. Patrick's Day Vignette. I loved the gold from Valentine's Day, so I decided to to change out the pink for some green. 

My favorite part of this vignette is the shamrock burlap table runner! Its the same pattern that I used for my Shamrock Burlap Bunting that I shared last week. I reused the gold candlesticks from my Valentine's Day Vignette, and topped them off with some of my famous St. Patty's Fabric Balls. I also spray painted one of our redneck wine glasses gold. LOVE IT!

I traced out a shamrock onto glittered scrapbook paper to put in the frame. Easy 5 minute project!

Lastly, I decorated my large white frame with some sparkly green and gold paper garland. I have always loved paper garland, but hardly ever think to make it. It's such an inexpensive way to decorate for any occasion!

Well, there you have it, my St. Patrick's Day Vignette! Isn't that shamrock burlap just perfect though?

Have you decorated for St, Patty's Day yet?

Happy Monday!

Shamrock Burlap Bunting

March means packing away all the pink and decorating with all things green.
While searching for gold polka-dotted burlap, I came across this shiny shamrock burlap at Joann's on sale this weekend and knew it would be the perfect addition to my St. Patrick's Day decor.

This project took me about 15 minutes to cut the triangles, glue them to twine, and hang it on my shelf. The result is better than I had imagined!

I've also been working on creating my St. Patrick's Day Vignette. 

Can't wait to show you what I've come up with!

Does anyone else decorate for St. Patrick's Day?

Happy HUMP Day!
Tomorrow is my Friday, thank goodness! So excited for my three day weekend! 

St. Patrick's Day Slacker

I must admit, life has been a bit crazy lately. I have become a slacker in the holiday decor department (so sad, I know!) and am almost embarrassed to admit this. It is March 16th, and I have not gotten a single St. Patty's decoration out yet this year, and at this point I probably won't. So if you wandered to this blog looking for St. Patrick's Day decorations, you will not find them here, at least not this year. 

Instead, I have decided to share posts from last year. I can't completely bypass this holiday after all.

First off, I created this beautiful vignette last year. So simple, yet so festive.
(view vignette details here)

I created this wreath for the front door a few years ago.

St. Patty's Day Rag Wreath

With the leftovers from the wreath, I made these.

(Decorative Fabric Balls)

I also made these wood block letters with scrapbook paper and mod podge.

(Lucky Blocks)

I wish I could have spent more time decorating this year, but it snuck up on me so fast. After this post, I'm at least going to go hang my wreath!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

This was our first year celebrating St. Patty's Day outside Mount Pleasant. I guess it's a sign we are growing up, because we enjoyed our small gathering on Saturday night instead. 

Of course we still enjoyed our green beverages...

...decorated the dog...

...and sported our St. Patty's apparel.

Needless to say, a few of us partied a little to hard, spending all of Sunday recovering.

I hope you all had a fun-filled, green beer-drinking weekend!

St. Patrick's Day Vignette

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Today I am sharing my St. Patty's Day Vignette with you all. It's simple, but festive, just the way I like it.

 decorative fabric balls. lucky blocks. printables. votive. 

I made the lucky blocks last year, you can view my post on them here. 

I used my wedding jewels and gems for my candle plate and added a little green to it. I love how much it sparkles!

The decorative fabric balls are also handmade. You can view my tutorial here.

I found these printables on The Tomkat Studio blog. You can find them here to print for yourself. The votive holder is a part of my Beads By Melanie collection. 

Has anyone else decorated for St. Patty's Day this year?

Tomorrow I'll have to make the quick exchange to Easter!

Lucky Blocks

I enjoyed my Love Blocks so much, I decided to make some for St. Patrick's Day! I went with the word "lucky." I had leftover wood and spray paint. I found some cute green scrapbook pages in my collection and cut out the letters. I then Mod-Podged it and finished it off with some green ribbon. Ta-Dah!

Has anyone else tried to make these letter wood blocks? I'm a bit addicted!

Tutorial: Decorative Fabric Balls- St. Patrick's Day Edition

I had some fabric leftover from my wreath, so I decided to make some decorative balls for my glass vase. Turns out, I like them better in my fruit bowl. At any rate, they are very simple to make!

what you will need:

fabric, pins, sytrofoam balls, scissors

First, I cut the fabric into strips. The size of each strip will depend on the size of your styrofoam balls, mine were 3 inches. My strips ended up being somewhere between 0.5 inch-1 inch wide, and about 9.5 inches long. I eyeballed these measurements, so they were not exact each time. Each ball required 8 strips of fabric, but that will depend on how thin you make you strips.

Once your strips are cut, you are ready to begin. I began wrapping the fabric strips around the styrofoam ball and using one pin to join the ends. Continue this process until the entire ball is covered.

When your entire ball is covered and you can no longer see the styrofoam, you have finished your first fabric ball. Repeat these steps to fill an entire vase, bowl, etc. 

What are some other simple decorating ideas you have tried with styrofoam balls?

Anyone going to try to make these?

Happy Crafting!