Tuesday's Tutorial- Last minute St. Patty's Day Decor

So I'm just a little bit reserved about posting this tutorial. It's because it's not the most exciting thing I've done, but it's cute and it didn't cost me ANYTHING.

Supplies:

strips of green tissue paper

green cardstock or paper

mod podge

Ink- this is optional

paint - I used gold and green acrylic paint

glass jars- I used old cleaned out baby food jars

a small shamrock cookie cutter or a template printed from the computer

Ribbon

Hot Glue

Instructions:

Apply a light coat of mod podge in sections. Apply tissue strips where the mod podge is.

Let it dry. While it's drying cut out shamrock- if you are going to ink this is where you would do it.
Apply a coat of mod podge on shamrock and place it over the dry tissue.
I then rolled my jar against my mat to make sure that it conformed to the jar. Let the mod podge dry. If you are using paint apply it to the jar after the shamrock has dried. Next add the final layer of mod podge. Lastly I applied a coat of lime green paint to the top of the jar for a bit of contrast. Now I don't have pictures, but I added a bit of gold ribbon on top of the lime green to give it a pop. I also put tea light candles inside of the jars for a bit of fun.

Sorry for the blurry pictures, I'm working on having a steadier hand, but like everything it takes practice, practice, practice!

Menu Monday and a sneak peak

Monday: Leftovers

Tuesday: Chicken Fajitas

Wednesday: Corned beef and Cabbage with potatoes- Celebrating St. Patty's Day!

Thursday: R.S. Dinner- NO COOKING!!

Friday: Strawberry Spinach Salad

Saturday:leftovers

Sunday: Fried Chicken, potato salad and a green salad

If you want the recipe for any of these meals please comment and I'll post the recipe!

Now for the sneak peak...............................

Menu Monday

So Last weeks menu didn't go as planned. Mostly due to no one wanting turkey meatloaf. Instead I made tacos with it. I got the inspiration from Traci at The Woman who couldn't sit still. This week I plan to stick to my menu better, but I have to say my turkey tacos were awesome!.

Monday: Chicken Fried Rice
Tuesday: who knows?
Wednesday: Chicken Fajitas
Thursday: leftovers
Friday: Orange Chicken, rice and veggies

Saturday: leftovers
Sunday: roast, mashed potatoes and veggies

Sale

I've been thinking about doing another sale recently, but I've been so busy lately that it's taken a bit longer than expected to get the ball rolling. I'm offering all bows, flower clips, diaper cases and onesies for 30% off to my followers. Not a follower yet? Become one and take part of this great offer. Just put follower in the notes to seller and I will refund the 30% via paypal. Hurry this offer isn't going to last long! The sale ends on the March 17.

St. Patty's Day Decor

This weekend I made this wreath for my front door and I'm loving it. I especially love that I spent only $3 and that was all at the dollar store. I purchased the wreath form, the green berrys and the shamrock at my local dollar tree. I planned on getting some plaid or dark green ribbon until I found an old green plaid tie in my garage sale box saturday morning. On clicked the light in my head, I brought it inside, ripped open the seams, cut off the lining and started wrapping and hot gluing it to the wreath. I then took the ribbon off of the shamrock- meant for hanging, and hot glued the shamrock to the wreath. I took the bow that had been on the shamrock and glued it to the top. I then put the berries around the wreath until I liked the wreath. I finished by throwing some white satin ribbon around the wreath and tying it in a bow to hang. I love the way it turned out. I'm so excited that I finally have something other than this sign that I made last year. The saying on the left is translated Ireland Forever.

Menu Monday

So this past week I didn't do several of the meals I had planned due to 2 very sick little kids. I was exhausted just taking care of them, so we did other meals like chicken fajitas on corn tortillas- they are so yummy. The corn tortilla makes them taste so good.

This week I plan on being good and sticking to my menu!

Monday: Mom's chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles and mashed potatoes

Tuesday: leftovers

Wednesday: mandarin chicken, brown rice and veggies

Thursday: leftovers

Friday: turkey meatloaf, baked potatoes and veggies

Saturday: leftovers

Sunday: Cube steak, mashed potatoes and gravy and veggies- a favorite in our house!