Saturday Night Crafting

I am so excited I discovered this Etsy shop.  It was recommended to me on the Chocolate Eyes blog. I decided to order the Fire Element Stacker for our Summer Nature Table, the stacker and some other items I ordered arrived two days after I placed my oreder.   I sanded and water colored the stacker this evening and could not be happier with the way it turned out.

Here's a picture with a peg person for scale:

I had been buying the Grimm's Spiel and Holz elemental stackers which are wonderful but as you can see these are much larger and much less expensive and I really enjoyed painting it.  I also order the Fortress Gate and Wall set as well as the Royalty Cutouts I am going to finish those and give them to Eoghan for his first Birthday.  I think they will make a wonderful gift that will grow with him.  I usually wouldn't use my blog to advertise a shop but Clickty Clack is just too wonderful of a shop to keep secret I had to share them with you.

Seamus and Sean Eoghan's Wee Lil' Leprechauns

For Saint Patrick's Day I crafted Seamus and Sean from Wee Folk's pattern.  It was too cold outside to attend our local St. Paddy's Festival so instead we stayed home and listened to Irish music and read tales of Leprechauns.  Here is a fun poem by Aileen Fisher for St. Patrick's Day from The Random House Book of Poetry for Children:

Wearing of the Green

It ought to come in April

or, better yet, in May

when everything is green as green-

I mean St. Patricks Day

With still a week of winter

this wearing of the green

seems rather out of season-

it's rushing things, I mean.

But Maybe March is better

when all is done and said:

St. Patrick brings a promise,

a green-all-over promise 

of Springtime just ahead!