Valentines Day / St. Patty's Day at The Roost

Well, here I am again, freaking out because it has been a while since my last post.  I really want to apologize for not being consistent.  I just let life and all it's crazy get in the way.  I can't promise it won't happen again, but, I can promise to try harder.  If you have any tricks to help you keep consistent with your blog, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, share them with me in the comment section.  I would really appreciate it.  Now, a little in my defense, the structure of my daycare has changed a little.  This is the first time in twenty years, that every child attending is the youngest in their family.  All of them are very emotional with a side of crazy tantrums.  Even though I don't have very many kids, I work harder now than I did when I first started this business (please, keep me in your prayers).  So with that said, I wanted to share my Valentine and St. Patty's Day decor with you even though it is very late.

I got these candles for a song after Christmas and  fell in love with them.  They are so gitchy.  They also inspired the candy cane hearts again this year.

This was hanging in the Daycare zone.

Sweet LOVE Birds.  Can you believe I got them at the 99 cent store?

Can you see that the jute is in the shape of a heart?

Well, that was my Valentine decor.

On to St. Patty's Day.  I really had fun with it this year.  I pulled things from everywhere.  Anything green wasn't safe - ha ha.

This was my favorite grouping.  I love the fuzzy green rocks in the cylinder vase, and, I got these bunnies last year and didn't know what to do with them.

Sweet green birdie from my "Bird Box".

I did do a couple of little crafty things, but, you will have to wait until next year to see them - tee hee.

xoxo

2012 St. Patrick's Entryway Shelf

Happy Tuesday everyone.  I am so excited this week.  It is SPRING BREAK and I do not have any extra little ones.  I love my job (who do you know gets paid to play outside and finger paint?), but, I really enjoy not having toys and blankets (they are into tents right now) all over my house.  However, my computer has been acting really strange.  I could not get on line all day yesterday and I just now got on today.  I left a message for my Internet carrier.  Anyway, here is my St. Patrick's entryway shelf.  I will be back a little later (I hope) with an update on my little home office closet.

Instead of a wreath, I put my Lucky Barn Star up this year.

I think it is so hard to find St. Patrick's decorations that aren't too crazy.  I find it to be a challenge.

I got the cute little lantern at Target around Thanksgiving.  I just added a quick candle stick, and a shamrock to give it a little more character.

I had these cute little green apples and thought, why not?

I found the button at Big Lot's and just pinned it onto some burlap.  Add a cute painted frame and you have a little "Pin Art".  

I did the same thing last year with several small pins.  I think my kids took the pins to wear last year which means, I will never see them again.

This was my first attempt at bunting.  I think it turned out kind of cute (that cute little fur spot is my cat, Gata).

My kids are so excited for St. Patty's day because they LOVE corned beef.  I usually have to cook three.  I will be sure to take a picture of them.

Do you decorate for St. Patty's day?

Check out and party at my favorite party spots here

"Lucky" Barn Star

I hope everyone is having a great week.  Mine is cruising at top speed again.  Over the weekend, we had volleyball and softball tournaments. Needless to say, I was not home much at all.  However, one of the mom's had a catalogue to look at and I was inspired.  So, I came right home and started to create this:

My "Lucky" Barn Star.

I bought this last fall at Michael's when all of their summer stuff was on clearance.  The star in the catalogue was $15.00.  Mine, was $1.49.

I picked out some pretty green paper and even found a shamrock page - I love it when I surprise myself.  I just took a piece of card stock and made a template and cut diamonds out.

I glued them on with just a glue stick.  I then took a piece of sandpaper and sanded the edges down a little.

It was a little too bright for my taste, so, I added a little stain and dirtied it up a little.  I love how it turned out.

I chose a dark green for the sign.

Next, I cut out the letters for Lucky using the same paper in the star and glued them on.  I added the fun little shamrock using my kids heart shapes and just painted them in a lighter green.

Finished the whole thing off with a green raffia bow.

This is it, and, the best thing is that I didn't have to the store for anything.

I am thinking of adding it to my entryway shelf.

I hope your day is Lucky too.

XOXO

I am ready to party down HERE.

Easy St. Patty's Pin Craft

I bought some St. Patrick's Day buttons at Target's dollar spot a couple of weeks ago.  I thought they were kind of cute, but, didn't know what to do with them.

I was digging around in my box of picture frames and came up with this idea.  I painted my frame. 

Cut a piece of burlap,

pinned the pins right on to the burlap and glued the burlap to a piece of tag board cut to fit the frame.  I did save the glass in case I want to re-purpose the frame later.

Here is how it turned out.  This was so fast and easy.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Rhonda

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St. Patrick's Entryway Shelf

I am enjoying my entryway shelf, this is what I came up with for St. Patrick's Day.

I am so happy I learned to make bows : )

I love those rosettes.

I hope you wear your green and don't get pinched on March 17th.

Rhonda

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