St. Patrick's Day 2014

It's beginning to look a lot like St. Patrick's Day around here!  Can you tell we are excited to celebrate? 

I still have one craft I would like to work on before St. Patrick's Day actually gets here but I'll have to see how much time I have available! 

I was supposed to put up some pictures from our recent stay in Lynchburg Virginia but my memory card decided it didn't want to work and all of the pictures on the card are GONE!  I have a few on my phone and I will eventually get around to putting them on here.  Hope you are having a great week no matter where you are.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from The Busy Bryants

 

May the Luck of the Irish be with you today and always :->

Easy Peasy St. Paddy Day Cake

With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner how about something really easy and cute at the same time?  I am NO domestic goddess so if you are expecting a made from scratch recipe....not gonna happen here.  But mine ARE made with love and thank goodness for me my kids are happy and content with just about anything I pull out of the oven :)

I start with the basics....white cake mix (brand doesn't matter), green food coloring (seems like the more the better), white frosting, and sprinkles!  My sprinkles were mini chocolate chips in a rainbow of colors. 

I followed all the directions on the box for mixing the cake but added a step with mixing in the green food color.  Then I baked per instructions.  I used a bunt pan so that at the end I could just pour on the icing.  Plus I like the fun shape that comes out when I'm done. 

Once out of the oven I allowed the cake to cool and dumped it out on to a plate.  Then the fun part!  I put about half the icing in a measuring cup and melted it for about 20 seconds in the microwave.  Then I just poured it over the cake.  I didn't want to toally hide the green cake so that is why I used half.  Plus I'm not a huge fan of tons of icing.  Then I poured on the sprinkles  :) 

And that is my easy peasy cake....I just like to make woulds rhyme....makes me happy.  I think for Easter I'll try pink or purple!  Have a great day folks. 

Crafting for St. Paddy's Day



The St. Patrick's Day tree.

I've made a few new additions to the St. Paddy Day tree.  This is probably one of my favorite trees during the year.  So I've been working on a few things here and there to really finish it off.  I started working on a garland for it made of yo-yos.  Yo-yos are something I remember my mom and aunt making as a child.  And no I don't mean the wooden kids toys that roll up and down on a string.  I mean the kind that are cut out from material and sewn into little circles.





My first yo-yo

My mom and aunt could just cut out a circle and then whip up one of these in a minute with nothing more than a needle and thread.  I am not quite there yet...so I needed a little help to get started.  So I found a neat little tool at my local Michael's craft store.




For those of us more craft challenged
people

The instructions were super easy and getting started was a breeze.  I was able to make a few the first night and then I would just work on them here and there.  I used the material I had left over from the other St. Paddy Day crafts I worked on last week.  Once I had enough I just sewed them into a long chain and viola!





My very first yo-yo garland



I originally was going to put it on the tree
but it looks so nice here :)

I think now that I've done so many and have the concept down (really after about two or three you get it) I can try it without the tool and try more sizes and make a few other things.  I saw a few ideas on making tree ornaments so if I do that I'll keep you posted. 

This weekend we'll be heading north west to Harrisonburg.  We'll be staying at our friends house there.  Super excited to see them and catch up.  So what are your weekend plans?