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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  Here are my home dec projects.

Last year I made the Lucky blocks (gold glitter paint on craft store wood letters) and the floral arrangement.  The Irish blessing sign, key, and little Leprechaun statue are craft store purchases.

I also crafted the shamrock bunting for my living/dining space last year.

I found a shamrock template online and used it to cut out the motif in two sizes from two different colors of stiff felt, punched a hole in each corner, ran ribbon through and sewed the ribbon loops to a striped ribbon.

This year I made a wreath for the front door.  It felt great hacking up the foliage and weilding the glue gun- I don’t exactly get a lot of time in my craft room these days.

Grapevine wreath with a some sparkly shamrock foliage, a few green blooms, light green ferns, plus a few embellishments (butterflies and leprechaun), and a six loop bow.  I picked up all the materials a few days before St. Patrick’s Day, so everything was deeply discounted and this wreath cost less than $10 to make!  Sadly, my verdant wreath is somewhat of a joke because this is the view out my back window on the seventeenth of March, just a few days before the Spring Equinox.

 For the record, I live in the Mid-Atlantic, not the Arctic.  We have been clobbered by snow this year and another 7″ this late in the season feels like an insult.  I am ready for some warmth!