This week’s mani is all green inspired by St. Patrick’s Day! I used Holo Taco “Wicked Potion” set with the super magnet on my thumbnail, followed by “Wicked Potion” unmagnetized, “Lost in the Woods,” “Green Taffy,” and “Mint Mojito.” I love the variation in shades!
Happy (early) St. Patrick’s Day!
We decided to celebrate today because it was the best day this week for a family feast. We started by setting the leprechaun trap…at this point, I can only assume that “Lucky” is taunting us!
Of course there were Lucky Charms:
And I made myself my favorite green drink this afternoon…the lavender matcha!
I love baking soda bread:
And we had our traditional corned beef dinner with all the fixin’s:
For dessert I made Guinness mousse to go with the Guinness cake Bunny baked:
This is truly one of my favorite dinners of the whole year!
Today’s mani is a very special design just in time for St. Patrick’s Day! I created a rainbow on my thumbnail with Holo Taco’s “Red Licorice,” “Orange Drink,” “Lemon Sucker,” “Green Taffy,” “Blue Freezie,” and “Purple Slushie,” and did the rest of the nails with a base of the shamrock green “Wicked Potion” with accents of the gold “Bottle Service.”
Just like last year, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day a day early today. We started by trying to trick the leprechaun into falling for our trap, but of course it didn’t work…he did leave some “gold” behind, though!
We had soda bread with tea for an afternoon snack:
And more soda bread with our traditional dinner:
For dessert, I made not only Guinness cake, but Guinness mousse to go with it…I think this might be a permanent addition to our St. Patrick’s Day menu!
Tomorrow we’re celebrating Turkey’s birthday…also early!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! We actually celebrated yesterday, right after we picked Bunny up for spring break. I’m so glad she could be home with us for all of our St. Patrick’s Day traditions.
We still haven’t caught the leprechaun, but this year, for the first time, we did see him!
In addition to a minty treat, he left us with Lucky Charms…this time, with dragon marshmallows!1
In keeping with the theme of the day (green), I made some matcha milk boba tea, and topped it with lavender-lemonade whipped cream:
We had our traditional dinner of corned beef and cabbage, roast carrots and potatoes, and soda bread with Irish butter:
And a Guinness cake for dessert!
Tomorrow, we get to celebrate Turkey’s 21st birthday (also a day early!).
Can you believe St. Patrick’s Day is less than a week away?!? I was inspired by the holiday for this week’s Mani Monday, which features two shades of Holo Taco green: the dark “Lost in the Woods” and the lighter “Mint Mojito.” I went with a swirly, occasionally spiral-y pattern on top, reminiscent of the snakes St. Patrick is said to have driven out of Ireland.
I love St. Patrick’s Day so much, I dedicated a second mani to it, this one using all three different shades of green nail polish I have (Pacifica “Sea Monster,” Sally Hansen Miracle Gel “Me, My Elf and I,” and Holo Taco “Wicked Potion”), plus gold glitter (Sally Hansen Miracle Gel “Sunken Treasure”)…I think it’s leprechaun approved!
Happy St. Paddy’s Day! We started the day as we always do, by setting out our leprechaun trap:
And, as always, we found evidence that Lucky had visited, but no leprechaun himself…he did leave some nice candy, though!
We had our traditional St. Patrick’s Day breakfast of Lucky Charms:
And our standard dinner of corned beef and cabbage, roast potatoes and carrots, and soda bread with Irish butter. Oh, and a local favorite, Ski soda, just because the bottle is green!
Dessert was a little different…Bunny took our recipe for Guinness cake and made mini bundt cakes. Just as delicious, but so much more adorable!
It was a fun day, but only a warm-up to an even bigger day tomorrow…stay tuned!
I was inspired by one of my Erstwilder Care Bears brooches to create a rainbow mani for St. Patrick’s Day! I went with Sally Hansen Miracle Gel “Can’t Beet Royalty,” “Eternally Grapefruit,” “Sunbrella,” “Me, My Elf and I,” and “Tidal Wave.” I’m not going to lie, the orange isn’t quite what I wanted, but it is what I had. I also feel bad about leaving out purple, my favorite color, but alas, I only have five fingers on each hand. To make up for that disappointment, I used “Sunken Treasure” to add a little gold glitter on top of each color, because you always look for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow!
Yesterday was one of my favorite days of the whole year (and one of the most delicious!)…St. Patrick’s Day!
We set our leprechaun trap:
We still didn’t manage to catch Lucky, though he did leave us a treat:
I wore green, glitter, and rainbows on a St. Patrick’s Day trip to the Missouri Botanical Garden. We didn’t find any shamrocks, but we did read a few of our favorite St. Patrick’s Day books while we were there.
I also had fun choosing just the right outfit in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I have a full-on leprechaun suit and a clover dress, but in the end, I decided to go with fusion fashion…a green dirndl!
We had our traditional dinner of corned beef and cabbage, roast carrots and potatoes, and soda bread with Irish butter. This year, I picked Ski soda to go with the meal, mostly because the bottle is green (and it’s nice to support local businesses).
And our favorite Guinness cake for dessert. I don’t know if it was just because I decorated it with chocolate sprinkles, but it looked even more like a donut to me than it usually does!
Up next…a two-day celebration of Turkey’s 19th birthday!