So, I shared all about my first experiences with Irish coffee during a trip with Mathlete way back in 2003 and the resulting cupcake. Today, I’m going to focus on something a little more near and dear to Mathlete’s heart: Guinness cupcakes with Irish Cream frosting…sort of like a car bomb in a cupcake.
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Irish Coffee Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Frosting
Irish Coffee Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Frosting are the perfect adult cupcakes recipe to make for your St. Patrick’s Day parties!
On my first ever trip with the Mathlete, we went to San Francisco for a wedding. He had a few friends living there and almost every day we ended up in an Irish bar drinking Irish coffee. Now, I love my lattes so the idea of Irish coffee wasn’t that appealing to me but it turned out to be so delicious.
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St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops
I love all of the bright and cheery green that comes along with St. Patrick’s Day. It is a great primer for Spring! Of course, that extends into food too which is why I am such a fan of these St. Patrick’s Day Marshmallow Pops. They are absolutely one of the easiest things you will ever make but are so cute and delicious. 
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St. Patrick’s Day Wreath
The brain is a funny thing. In your mind, something could look totally amazing and be the.perfect.craft and then you make it and it is definitely NOT what you envisioned. That totally happened to me yesterday but, instead of totally doing a new project, I decided I was going to share with you my St. Patrick’s Day wreath in all of its “glory” {insert saracasm}.
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St. Patrick’s Day Crafts – Clover Etched Glasses
We are totally rocking out on the St. Patrick’s Day crafts this year! With our new basement bar open for visitors, I decided to take some of Mathlete’s older beer glasses {I gave him new ones when the basement was finished} and give them a little St. Patrick’s Day treatment.
Darn if they weren’t the hardest things to photograph EVER!
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St. Patrick’s Day Crafts – Pots of Gold
St. Patrick’s Day crafts are always so fun because they are filled with bright greens, rainbows and, of course, gold!
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St Patrick’s Day Crafts – Yarn Wreath
We don’t do a whole lot of St Patrick’s Day crafts in our house. We aren’t Irish or anything so I typically add a few touches of green around the house and then get started on the Easter decor. I try to always change the wreath on the door though and, like last year, I made a new wreath for the holiday.
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Easy Decorating – Split Pea Spring Decor
We are in that time of year where it isn’t quite fully Spring {hello…snow predicted in two days!} but I still want to add little touches of Spring into our house to remind me what is near. Since this is really transitional decor, I want this to be cheap and easy decorating. And, it really doesn’t get much cheaper or easier than this!
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{Guest Post} Lucky Mugs from Lemon Tree Dwelling
Hi there! Isn’t this birthday extravaganza awesome? I hope you have enjoyed all the awesome posts so far this week!
Today, Cathy from Lemon Tree Dwelling is here to share a great idea for St. Patrick’s Day! Enjoy!
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Hi! My name is Cathy and I am so excited to be guest posting for Shannah today at Just Us Four! With the Superbowl behind us, and Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I thought maybe we could get a head start on some St. Patrick’s Day gifts. These are easy & inexpensive, and they make the perfect personalized gift from you or your kiddos to someone you love!
Lucky mugs. Actually, I tend to think that all mugs are lucky. I can recall numerous times in my life when the ONLY thing that got me out of bed was the promise of a strong cup of coffee (or three!!) Like every time I’ve had a newborn…or anytime I’ve had a kid who was up sick in the middle of the night…or how about the year we moved into a fixer-upper when I was 7 months pregnant…..!? Yep, at times like these, a warm mug in my hands makes me feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
See, I think luck is about so much more than winning the lottery or making it big. I think luck is about all the small things that get us out of bed in the morning! Like our family, our friends, our work, our hobbies, our passions…. and, in a very literal sense (mine pull me out of bed every single morning), our kids! Which is why I love the idea of theseLucky Mugs with fingerprint shamrocks – the perfect daily reminder of just how lucky we really are (an especially helpful reminder when you have just been woken up 5 times in one night…!)
Here’s what you will need:
- white mug (I found mine at Goodwill)
- flexible alphabet stencils
- small paintbrush
- bakeable glass paint (dishwasher safe)
Directions:
1. Wash & dry mug, then wipe area to be painted with alcohol. Let dry completely.
2. Use fingerprints to make shamrock (I made 3 leaves – one for each of my kids) and use a paintbrush to make a stem.
3. Let shamrock dry completely.
4. Using stencils and a small paintbrush, paint “lucky” or any word of your choice, one letter at a time. It works well to tape the edges of the stencil onto the mug to hold it in place.
5. Let paint dry completely between letters.
6. Once all the paint has been applied and dried, use a toothpick to scrape away any imperfections.
7. Follow baking directions on paint bottle.
As you can see, my mug is still far from perfect. There is too much paint here, not enough paint there….. But I actually kind of like it that way. It’s kind of like life – imperfect, but lucky nonetheless 🙂
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Thanks so much Cathy! Be sure to go visit Lemon Tree Dwelling to see the other amazing stuff Cathy has to share!
St. Patrick’s Day on the Cheap
I have never really been on to decorate for St. Patrick’s Day. Sure, I wear green and make sure to dress the kiddos in green too. The house, however, typically gets neglected. This year, I at least threw together a wreath {on the cheap no less} so the house could feel “Lucky” this year too.
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