IRISH BLESSING

Time to enjoy some Irish

themed cupcakes: 

May God grant you always

A sunbeam to warm you,

A moonbeam to charm you,

A sheltering angel

So nothing can harm you.

I find winter to go quicker if we

celebrate each of these smaller

holidays.  It is fun to decorate a

little for each one and right now

green seems to be the going color.

"TEA IN THE GARDEN" MEMORIES

Earlier today I made up a booklet as we will be

 putting our home in Colorado up for sale soon. 

 It was fun looking back at some

photos of my summer garden so I
decided to share some here too:

I will soon be saying goodbye to this

Colorado garden and will begin

the process of starting a new garden
 in Missouri.  I look forward to the challenge!
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TEA TIME FAVORITES

Just a few photos of past tea time 

favorites:

Have a lovely day!

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LOVING THOSE IRISH CURRANT SCONES

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner some Irish Currant Scones are in order.

 

 Sharon O'Connor's fabulous Cookbook and CD Combination is loaded with authentic recipes and you will love these scones:

Recipe:  1 cup whole wheat flour, 2 cups unbleached all purpose flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 3 Tb sugar, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/3 cup cold butter cut into pieces, 1/3 cup dried currants, 1 cup buttermilk and 1 egg beaten.

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.  In a large bowl, stir in flours, baking soda, sugar and salt until well blended.  Using a pastry cutter cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. 

 Mix in the currants, then quickly stir in the buttermilk and egg to form a soft dough.  Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat it to a 3/4" thickness. 

 Using a 2" scone cutter, cut the dough into rounds and place on a baking sheet.  Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. I made 23 scones that were like sweet biscuits.

It's Tea Time in the Irish Isle.  And you don't have to be Irish to enjoy.  I am also sharing this favorite vintage apron with Shamrock's on it.  I wish I still had the lovely platter but somewhere in the kitchen journey - it got broken.  Right now my hubby has broken 2 butter dishes and I found a great one for $2.00 at the thrift store this week but also dropped it while walking around the store.  We are on a roll!

This  recipe printed with permission from Sharon O'Connor.

STEADYING THE LADDER IS AN IMPORTANT JOB

Lately, I've been doing some really important things......boring.......but important.  I have

had the job of steadying the ladder while my

husband paints up high. 

 We have those 17' cathedral ceilings above walls 
being painted in 2 rooms in our house
 and 12' in the master bedroom. 
 I imagine many of you never knew we had one of these?

I don't usually photograph him with my teapots or teacups. We found him (actually maybe a her?) in Casper, Wyoming many years ago but he/her is also a Colorado thing for sure and

 will stay here in repose with the house ready for a 

new owner who surely will love him. (at least a man will)

Since their is no furniture left in this room -
 we temporarily put the television on top the wood stove.
We are waiting to hear from the carpet
 people and the kitchen people.

Houses and situations are so different from one another 
where ever you live.  Where we live

in Colorado everyone has a privacy fence,
 the houses are very close side by side 
and everyone has a sprinkler system
 to water their yard.  For example, if you live in
 Texas -

 every subdivision has a swimming pool!

Oh and I have had some more jobs: moving the lamp around the room following the paint job, washing the switch plates, plug in covers and heat vent covers that go in the floors.  How fun! 

 While doing this difficult task for hours Sunday afternoon,  I watched  a lot of  GAC (Great American Country) which is a channel that carries "Flea Market Flip" on Sunday afternoons .  Now here is a program that I adore!  Have you seen it? The program features Lara who introduces 2 groups of 2 people who are given $500.00 each group to spend at a huge flea market. They go out and find 3 assigned tasks to create 3 things which they then work on and try to sell at the same (?) flea market on another day.

If you haven't seen this and you love DIY I think you should as it is very interesting.

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