Stacey shares a recipe for befanini cookies and discusses the Epiphany in Italy. She also talks about La Befana and shares a bit of history on the holiday.

How to make a Welsh hat for St David's Day

Raise your glass to the the Irish this St. Patrick's Day with these inspired cocktails.

A couple of fun St David's day crafts inspired by Welsh love-spoons and daffodils (free printable included) The 1st March is St David's day and although

Try this budget-friendly and delicious creamy chicken, leek, and mushroom pie that's perfect for your next comfort food binge.

We visited Melin Tregwynt - a great selection of beautiful blankets. We went on a Sunday, so the mill wasn't running.http://www.melintregwynt.co.uk/, but I bought some blanket remnants. Then onto The National Woollen Museum. www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/wool/ The guide was great - he turned on the machines as we were going around - we were too early for the official tour. What a great museum - I will definately return...to get more fabric!! The background fabric is a piece that I've had for a while - Melin Tregwnt. The 4 pieces are Melin Teifi. http://www.melinteifi.com/ which is at the Woollen Museum. I've adapted my Russian doll die for these 'Welsh ladies in waiting'....bunting I think. It's coming along.... I added seed beads for eyes, zig zag edge and a felt daffodil. Just need to finish off the binding now. I've made 10 flags on 3 metres of binding. It's not a great photo, but here is the bunting hanging on the gym apparatus in school I'll take a photo outside when the weather is better

An Unblurred Lady

This adorable lucky leprechaun shoe planter is perfect for St. Patrick's day. Quick and easy to make, it will add some festive cheer all year round.

One of my fondest childhood memories was delivering May Baskets on May Day. My Mom was always so good about doing this with us. I remember filling the Styrofoam cup and twisting pipe cleaners for the basket handle. Then going around the neighborhood to deliver. Fun times. MayPole Cupcakes When I had Sophia and she got to be around a year old, I wanted to start doing this with her but realized that May Baskets and May Day really weren't a big deal where we lived. Sophia delivering May Baskets, a few years ago! I am so glad I found this picture! I changed that. Although Sophia is growing up and becoming less interested in delivering May Baskets, I still think it is fun celebrate May Day in some shape or form. This year, I made these MayPole Cupcakes. Very easy. Just bake your favorite cupcake and use your favorite frosting. I made the MayPoles using Pirouette cookies and ribbon. I attached the ribbon underneath the top of the MayPole using a dab of left over Royal Icing but you could use Karo Syrup. The top of the MayPole is a flavored tootsie roll, but you could just as easily use a piece of fondant or spiced gum drop. See.....simple. Have a great May Day Everyone! Sharing with Crazy Sweet Tuesdays @ Crazy for Crust

This creamy, fun concoction is a hint of whimsy and a celebration of all things Irish – a little whiskey, a little cream, and some chocolate at the end of the rainbow. To take this over the top, garnish with crushed chocolate mint cookies - if you’ve still got any. It’s a whiskey drink that’s here to play and doesn’t take itself seriously.

St David’s Day is on 1st March and is a day of celebration of both St David’s life and the Welsh people and their culture. Here are some FREE printables...

This naturally green St. Patrick’s Day bread is yeast-free, gluten-free, grain-free, nut-free, dairy-free, paleo and keto friendly. It’s made with four ingredients: sunflower seeds, eggs, baking soda and vinegar. And what’s best, the St. Patrick’s Day bread is naturally green! The sunflower seeds + baking soda turn the bread green when it cools down. Ingredients … Continue reading Naturally Green St. Patrick’s Day Sunflower Bread – Nut-Free, Grain-Free, Dairy-Free, Yeast-Free →

I Love St. Patricks Day for All the Weird Reasons... I love the Color Green, i love the look of a Clover, the Pinching, the Kissing and MOST...

Repurpose a worn out loafer or bootie into a whimsical lucky leprechaun shoe. Multi surface paints, glue and some sparkle transform "past its prime" footwear in…

Who’s ready to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Since this is, admittedly, a holiday that Americans have adopted to celebrate Mexican culture, it doesn’t get much more Americanized than tacos. Who doesn’t love tacos?. And we

A printable colouring page of Saint David for younger children.

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A happy Saint Patrick's Day to All! And a great big thank you to Kathleen at Cuisine Kathleen's for hosting her 7th annual Saint Patrick's Day Blog Crawl. All year I have collected little things here and there to put together a post for this occasion and today I get to see how my thrifty finds all come together. The centerpiece is made from a basket I found this morning at the Volunteers of America Thrift store, a wee Irish lass and her lovely harp also from the VOA, shamrock plants from Marc's (my favorite closeout store, and yellow primrose from The Home Depot (4 plants for $3.00) plus a few odds and ends from the stash. The tablecloth is actually a four yard piece of material from Goodwill in a lovely hunter green plaid pattern. The dinnerware is the King O'Dell pattern made by Taylor Smith Taylor (a fine American made product), the flatware is Daffodil made by Rogers bought at auction from Goodwill, the Lillian Vernon shamrock placemats in the center of the table being used as a runner came from the Salvation Army Thrift Store, the Lenox candle holders came from Goodwill, Candles from Marc's, green stemware was thrifted but I don't remember where from, the Lenox chargers were bought on Ebay (cheap) last year. The green trimmed burlap napkins were bought last year when Pier One closed them out. And my favorite - the cute little Jadiete bunny rabbit salt cellars were bought at the VOA this morning when I bought the baskets. This little lady made her debut on my table last year. Both the Saint Patrick figure and the Irish Angel came from Marc's a few years back. Beautiful King O'Dell I couldn't resist adding the little sheep to the table. I fell in love with this lovely lady the first time I laid eyes on her. What's not to love about this St. Patrick O'Santa figure. His music box plays "When Irish Eyes are Smiling". The shelves have been decked out with thrifty finds too. Some are new (new to me that is) this year, some are from years gone by. Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I am linking to: Cuisine Kathleen's Saint Patrick's Day Blog Crawl Susan's Tablescape Thursday

A new painting by Paul Helm of Dewi Sant (St David) - patron saint of Wales. Acrylic on canvas and a painted wood frame.

Impress your friends on St David’s Day with these handy phrases

Use recycled TP tubes to make this dimensional paper shamrock to use in decorating for St. Patricks Day or other occasions. This is a guide contains all the information you need on how to make a cardboard tube shamrock.

This great collection of traditional Irish Food has plenty of great dishes to cook for St. Patrick's Day, or just whenever you're feeling Irish! We love this Guinness beef stew:

Irish recipes for homemade corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and soda bread bring the luck of the Emerald Isle.

The sun is shining and my children are back at nursery and school. It’s time to think about St David’s Day which has sparked lots of creativity in our house. Here’s a round up of 10 St David’s Day crafts, including some of ours. 10 St David’s Day crafts How about starting the day with a St David’s Day breakfast, I love this one which includes Welsh dragony bacon and egg. You can’t celebrate St David’s Day without a batch of Welsh cakes too. They are simple to make and taste divine, especially when warm. It’s lovely to bring some colour into the house. As well as colourful daffodils, did you know that leeks are a well known Welsh symbol? I found this fun craft for kitchen paper leeks which I know my children would love to make and then use in their play kitchen. How about making some Welsh ladies bunting to decorate the house? I found two versions, one with cheery faces and googly eyes and more Welsh ladies bunting based on sweet Russian nesting dolls, both would brighten up a room. I also like this fun St David’s Day bunting printable. I haven’t forgotten the children and […]

I normally don't decorate for St. Patrick's Day, but since Easter isn't until the end of April, I decided to whip something up! Making banners is kindof an addiction for me and since I pretty much have every other holiday/season, it was the perfect excuse. I don't know about you, but really cute and classy St. Patrick's Day decor is kindof hard to find; at least around here. Everything seems to be made out of shiny metallic cellophane or tinsel and just isn't my taste. Since I love green so much anyway, I just used a few things I already had with some new purchases to put together a cute little ensemble on my bench under the banner. The paper is all from Graphic 45, but from different collections. I just grabbed the patterns that I liked in green and called it good. The little image under the letter "c" is from Crafty Secrets. I was wishing that I hadn't gotten rid of all of the horseshoes I bought for one of my kid's Cowboy/Cowgirl birthday parties. I noticed how cute the little horshoe tied up with ribbon looked next to the Leprochaun in the little image. Everything else is pretty straightforward and standard on my banners. It whipped up quite quickly since it only used 5 letters. It is shorter than most of my banners so it doesn't span the entire length of the board. I found something green to hang on the last handle to fill things up! Everyone loved their little Valentine's treats when I passed them out at school. I ended up making chocolate dippped strawberries for the teachers. I put them on silver platters that I found at the dollar store and tied them up with cellophane. I gave the principal the stacked boxes from my last post which she absolutely loved. She confessed to me this week when I dropped into the office to tell me that she had re-gifted. I guess her son needed something quick for his girlfriend and wanted to give her that. I thought that was cute! Alot has been going on here; throw-up, diarrhea, more throw up (thank goodness none of those for me, I am actually feeling quite good these days), going forward with some construction (Rowan threw up all over the floor when the workmen were here), a fender-bender, weening Rowan onto a sippy cup, tantrums, we are most likely expecting another boy, homework,etc. February has almost come and gone. I will be back tomorrow with my second design for this month's SFYTT! Thanks for fluttering by!

This Pot of Gold craft makes use of pom poms and candies. Simple items make this a great classroom project for St. Patrick's Day.

These traditional desserts from Ireland are simply delicious. Get the recipes here.

Hanging Porcelain Leek. I have cut out the piece in clay and then carefully dried and biscuit fired it.The next step is painting it with underglaze .It is then fired to a high temperature and finally strung on a lovely hearts ribbon. You will receive it in a Miss Marple Makes gift box.Ideal gift for St David’s Day or a friend with quirky taste and a kitsch kitchen.

I wanted to make some shamrocks to put on my St.Patrick's Day Mantel. I gathered up some green paper and ink and went to it. Here is how I ...

Does your school celebrate Hanukkah? Do you have students who celebrate Hanukkah? Here is something holiday related that your students who celebrate Hanukkah can participate in! Do your students need to practice Basic Addition Facts? Teachers and students will enjoy completing Hanukkah Basic Additio...

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Is welsh rarebit the world's best cheese on toast – or do you have a better version?

Get ready for a throwback St. Patrick's Day jewelry craft. The Vintage Velvet Shamrock Pin is classic and chic for this Irish pride celebration. Subtle, chic, and charming, this little DIY pin look like it came out of a fancy millinery shop from the 1930s. All you need is some buttons, glue, wire and velvet tubing to create this pretty homemade shamrock design. Avoid the pinches this St. Patrick's Day by crafting and wearing this adorable DIY shamrock pin.