St Patrick's Day Home Decor Decorating

Our project today is to make the final two things for our St Patrick's day decor and create the mini vignette.

Over the past week, for St Patrick's Day, we have created:

A Beaded Garland

A Shamrock Art Frame

Today, we are crafting a flower vase by upcycling a tin can,

and making a mini pot of gold.

TO MAKE:

Beaded Can Vase

     

Can

Gold spray paint

Wire

Beads

Glue Gun

Fresh flowers and greenery

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Spray paint the can gold.

Leave to dry.

Cut wire to fit around the can leaving enough extra to twist and tighten the two ends.

Thread the beads onto the wire.

Use the hot glue to position the centre bead. 

Put several dobs of glue around the can centre to hold the beads in place.

Carefully twist wire ends together at the back of the can.

Fill with water and add flowers of your choice.

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Mini Pot of Gold

 Small glass pot without lid

(I used a honey taste test pot)

Gold spray paint

A gold gauze jewellery bag

Gold chains and jewellery bits

(I had the broken ones in my stash, but you could buy cheap Dollar Store gold jewellery)

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Spray paint jar gold.

When the paint is dry, push the gold gauze bag into the pot.

Then take your chosen gold jewellery pieces and drape them over the gauze.

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Now it is time to put all the St Patrick's Day elements together into one decor vignette.

The base of the St Patrick's vignette is a round rattan place mat.

I used a small wood slice to place under the can vase.

And filled it with golden, yellow and orange flowers, with sprays of foliage.

Then added the shamrock art frame, the little pot of gold and the beaded lucky garland.

The end result is a stylish St Patrick's Day mini vignette. 

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St Patrick's Day Shamrock Art Frame

 We are still crafting our St Patrick's Day Vignette for Mia Bella Passions decor.

Today we are creating a picture board using a wood block frame and a shamrock themed image.

There are five different images that you can choose from.

Just save and print from your computer onto plain white paper.

Or photographic paper if you prefer a brighter colour palette.

The Shamrock Art Frame

You'll need:

A wood block panel - size 15 x 15cm (6 x 6  inch)

Gold acrylic paint

Paintbrush

The printed image of your choice

Pencil

Scissors 

Mod podge glue

To Make:

Place the panel onto the wrong side of the printed image.

Outline with pencil or thin marker pen.

Cut the shape.

Paint the outside edges of the box frame with gold acrylic paint.

Once dry, cover the front of the frame with glue.

Carefully align the cut image and press onto the front of the frame.

And that is it.

A lovely box board shamrock picture to add to your St Patrick's Day decor.

In our next blog post, we will create a gold beaded vase upcycling a tin and make a cute miniature pot of gold. 

Then we will combine all our crafted elements to create a lovely St Patrick's Day Vignette for Mia Bella Passions decor.

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St Patricks Day Coconut Ice Sweets

Ok - I am fooling with Y'all a little....

this is an unbaked ordinary coconut ice,

sweet...delicious...

and 'Oh so simple' to make.

The Irish bit is just the fact that it has Leprechaun green colouring added 

to one layer instead of the standard pink colouring!

All you need are four ingredients.

Sweetened condensed milk.

Powdered icing sugar

Dessicated coconut

And green food colouring.

St Patrick's Day Coconut Ice

250 gram (3/4 US cup) can of sweetened condensed milk

200 grams (1 and 3/5 US cups) fine dessicated coconut

250 grams (2 and 1/4 US cups) powdered icing sugar

Green food colouring

Extra Powdered icing sugar for rolling and shaping.

1. Using a wooden spoon, mix together the sweetened condensed milk and powdered icing sugar in a large bowl.

The mixture will be very stiff. Work the coconut into the mixture until well combined.

Don't be tempted to add liquid of any sort.  

A little muscle power is required, or just pop the mixture into an electric mixer and let that do the hard work. 

2. Split the mixture into two even lots.

Knead a few drops of green food colouring into one half of the mixture.

Dust a clean benchtop or board with more powdered icing sugar. Shape each half separately into a rectangle shape.

Place the green layer on top of the white layer.

Roll with a rolling pin to gently press the two together, reshaping with your hands until it is about 3cm thick.  Place on a parchment lined tray and leave uncovered overnight to set.

Cut into squares with a sharp knife.

This coconut Ice will keep for one month in an airtight container in the pantry.

Feel free to save and use these images for scrapbooking and cards.

Pop over HERE for the printable recipe.

There's nothing more perfect 
than a sweet treat to share on 
St Patrick's Day!

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