Green, Eggs & a Ham

Okay, I'll be honest. I really can't get too excited about St. Patrick's Day as a holiday. I'm not Irish, I'm not Catholic, I don't drink, and I don't live in a place with a lot of Irish heritage. At least when we lived in Savannah the latter was true so I could have fun with the parade and other peripheral madness. Here in Denver, I'm just not feeling it. I'm not even wearing any green today. Even so, I never pass up an opportunity to use one of my cute Dover clipart images!

This weekend was the fourth weekend in a row that either DH or I have been out of town. He had to work on Saturday & Sunday so I packed up Maren and we drove 4 hours south to visit my grandparents for a few days. It was wonderful to see them and just hang out. And there was thrifting! I'll share photos later this week when I get it all unpacked.

I did promise to show photos of the glass glitter eggs I made last week.

Here's how I have them displayed; the silver bowl is thrifted and they are sitting in a nest of Spanish Moss. I'm not sure that I love it though--I think it's just a bit too monochromatic for my taste. I used the moss because I wanted something more rough and organic to offset the glittery eggs, but it's all just a little boring to look at. I may have to dig through the cupboards to see if I can find a different bowl with some color to it. Here's a close-up of the eggs so you can sort of see how sparkly they really are.

Here's a tip for working with glass glitter that I've found useful: I try to keep the glitter contained when I'm using it but inevitably some ends up on my work surface. Normally I'd just swipe it off with my hand but when I'm using glass glitter (especially the very coarse grade, like on these eggs) the last thing I want to do is to embed tiny shards of glass into the fleshy part of my hand. I've been using one of those sticky lint roller things (the kind with the tear-off sheets) to run over my desk and pick up all the stray glitter. It works like a charm! I've also used this same tool when I've dropped a light bulb, Christmas ornament or anything else where tiny slivers of glass are involved.

All right, we've covered the Green, the Eggs and now for the Ham!

This is Maren's "Fake Smile". It totally cracks me up every time! You try telling a three-year-old to smile naturally! This photo was taken when we were in SLC and Maren dyed eggs with my mom, who incidentally, she also calls "Ham." If you click to enlarge the photo you can also see Maren's blue-dye mustache. Love it.