March 13, 2014
Dining With The Leprechauns
I married into an Irish family. I have marched in the St Patrick's Day parade, I make corn beef and cabbage for St Patrick's Day. I decorate a tree for St Patrick's Day, and I set the dinner table on St Patrick's Day with shamrocks and leprechauns. That's as Irish as I am going to get.
What could be more Irish than a leprechaun? I do so adore the wee people.
Long before I met my husband I was fascinated by fairies and leprechauns. One summer when I was around six years old I remember going out into the yard and picking a three leaf clover and pinching two of the three little leaves off to make a tiny clover fairy doll. I took a tiny flower head from a clover plant and placed it onto my single leaf of clover with a tiny dab of my school paste, then I picked a morning glory blossom (for my fairies gown) from our next door neighbors yard and nipped the end off to leave a tiny opening to slip the clover stem into. This was my tiny fairy doll. I made a little shelter for her from whatever I could find outside, sticks, bits of wood, and small pieces of colored glass from around the schoolyard on the other side of our house. Needless to say my fairy doll wilted rather quickly and I would have to start the process all over again if I wanted to play fairy garden.
My fascination with fairies and all of the other wee people started when my parents took me to see Walt Disney's Peter Pan. Tinker Bell was my favorite character in this charming animated movie.
Enough about the fairies, the leprechauns are the main attraction on St Patrick's Day
The wee Irish Lass in the centerpiece was found at a thrift store.
She was placed on a candle holder to make her a bit taller than she really is.
The Orchid flower is the last bloom from this winter's flowering.
I used a green shot glass for a vase.
The lovely little shamrock covered plate on the top of the stack was bought at Marc's (my favorite close out store) the bottom of the plate is marked Shannon (and made in china).
The light green salad plate came from Goodwill (salad plates are fifty cents each and seniors get a 10% discount) it is marked GP Hospitality Collection.
The dinner plate came from the Goodwill Store near where I work. Dinner plates are one dollar each unless marked otherwise. The usual 10% discount brings the price per plate down to ninety cents each. I bought eight of them The were made by Syracuse China, they are marked 10-J USA.
The chargers were bought off of Ebay - made by Lenox
The green plaid place mat is marked St. Nicholas Square. Twenty five cents each at Goodwill (half of the usual fifty cents each)
The small Shamrock bowls came from Marc's.
The glass wear came from the Volunteers Of America Store (I think).
Have a wonderful St Patrick's Day!
Linking to:
Kathleen's 6th Annual St Patrick's Day Crawl
Susan's Tablescape Thursday
