Happy St. Patrick’s Day {Irish Medley}

{Updated For 2010} Here are a few crafty projects, printables & ideas for St. Patrick’s Day along with some recipes and fun tidbits celebrating the luck o’ the Irish.

Irish Lady With Harp: Vintage Postcard (1916) Click To Download A Copy

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• Homemade Irish Cream Recipe
• Minty Ice Cream Shamrocks
• St. Patrick’s Lucky Charm Card & Envelope Printable
• St Patrick’s Day Bag Topper Printable
• Lucky Penny Card
• Free Goodie: St. Patty’s Day Cupcake Topper
• Shamrock Pincushion Pattern
• St. Patrick’s Day Vintage Image Freebies
• Free Printables: St. Patrick’s Day Cards
• Polymer Clay Leprechaun Tutorial
• St. Patrick’s Day Notecards: Free Printables
• How To Make Jello Shamrocks
• Shamrock Boutonnieres
• Split Pea SHAMROCKS
• Shamrock Stirrers
• Guinness Chocolate Pudding or “Chocolate Guinness Goodness”

Irish Blessing

May those that love us, love us.
And those that don’t love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn’t turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping.

The History of Kenmare Lace: Kenmare.com

What does Blarney mean? He has licked the blarney stone; he deals in the wonderful, or tips us the traveller. The blarney stone is a triangular stone on the very top of an ancient castle of that name in the county of Cork in Ireland, extremely difficult of access; so that to have ascended to it, was considered as a proof of perseverance, courage, and agility, whereof many are supposed to claim the honour, who never achieved the adventure: and to tip the blarney, is figuratively used telling a marvellous story, or falsity; and also sometimes to express flattery. Irish.

This is the day
It’s a joy to adress you
As Irish folks do
May Heaven bless you!

Four Leaf Clover

Each leaf on the four leaf clover represents one of the following:

• 1st leaf is Hope
• 2nd is Faith
• 3rd is Love
• 4th is Luck

Tip: Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck!

Irish Blessing

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
The rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

Live Webcam: Leprechaun Watch

For a bit of fun, this video was made on St Patrick’s Day last year in the general area of a fairy ring (Tipperary, Ireland). In the trees on the right, around 8 seconds into the video, something can be glimpsed running past at high speed. It is too far away to claim that it is a leprechaun or some other form of Irish fairy but who knows?

You can visit the live webcam here: The Leprechaun Fairy Watch Tipperary, Ireland.

Everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, isn’t it grand to know the heart and soul of you belongs to Ireland!

Updated: Originally Published March 17, 2007

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