Found Heart

My littlest likes to paint, and I've been trying to teach him the pattern: water, paint, paper...water, paint, paper. He getting it down, and the water colors are surviving longer without turning to brown.  But every two year old forgets now and then, and one such moment resulted in the tiny green heart in the yellow paint above, which I caught for Guest Heart Thursday.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

I hope you all are having a blessed St. Patricks Day!

I have some St. Patricks Day Presents for You!

• A FREE SCRIBBLEPRINT SHAMROCK PRINTABLE
  
    A fun printable for coloring!  If you or your child colors one, I'd love if you would send me a copy to share on the blog!

•  25% Off at My CafePress Shop
  Get 25% off and reduced shipping on any item in my CafePress shop. You can't order from there thoguh...you have to order by contacting me at ecarian at yahoo dot com. I will add this to my own order and then ship it to you once I get it, so shipping will take longer than usual.

Plus I hope you'll join me for the St. Patricks Day Blessings Party I'm holding celebrating the Christian heritage of St. Patricks Day!  Just click the button below to join in!  And thank you to all who have participated!

Sold My First Stationery!

Took a look at my Zazzle stats and discovered I sold my first set of stationery...the pink lady stationery below! How cool!

Lady in Pink by scribbleprints

St. Patrick's Day Blessings - A Blog Journey (with linky)

 
While St. Patrick's Day has become largely secularized over the years, it began as a religious holiday celebrating the life of St. Patrick.  Until a few years ago, I didn't know ANYTHING about St. Patrick, except that there was a holiday named after him.  In the last few years I've learned more about his story, and it's both fascinating and inspiring.   St. Patrick was kidnapped as a teen by marauders and sold in Ireland as a slave, then escaped, become a monk, and returned to Ireland to preach the Gospel.   You can learn more about him on a great post I found here.

Learning about his life had me wonder how St. Patrick's Day was and still is celebrated AS a religious holiday.  So, I'm inviting those who celebrate St. Patricks Day as a Holy Day, not just a holiday, to share their ideas, traditions, crafts and reflections on St. Patricks Day. For those of you who have only known this as a secular holiday, but would like to learn more about its religious roots, I'd like to invite you to join me on my journey as I learn more about the Christian roots of this holiday!


I'd love to see posts about...

• St. Patrick or the History of St. Patrick's Day
• Christian St. Patrick's Day Tradions
• Relevant St. Patricks Day crafts or activities
• Relevant religious art
• Reviews of films or books about St. Patrick or St. Patrick's Day.
• St. Patricks Day Devotionals
• Irish Blessings
• Discussions of anything about this holiday from a Christian perspective.

What isn't appropriate...

Though posts don't have to be specifically religious in nature (St. Patrick's Day Clover crafts, for instance, are fine)...for this linky I'd prefer not to have posts focused on beer, luck, and leprechans, unless they are discussed from a Christian perspective.  Examples:

• NOT APPROPRIATE: A recipe for green beer, just by itself.
• OK:  A post which discusses how drinking has been part of Christian celebrations including St. Patricks day, which also happens to have a recipe for Green Beer. 

If you have more than one post that you'ld like to include, feel free to post as many as you'ld like.  Old posts are fine too!  A link back is appreciated but not required.


Another great place to find religious St. Patricks Day Crafts and activities is the current Liturgical Link Up over at Catholic Icing.  You don't have to be Catholic to enjoy these great activities.  I'm not!  But I enjoy what I can learn from various denominations of our faith.

(Sorry the linky was down earlier today...it's fixed now)

March CafePress and Zazzle Giveaways

Hello everybody!  Found some more CafePress e giveaways for you!  See, it's almost like being able to give away something from my shop since if you win, you COULD get something of mine.  :-)  You can find my stuff at CafePress by searching under scribbleprints or galesgiggles there.

Ends March 9
$50 Zazzle Gift Card at Our Crazy Boys

Ends March 10
$60 at CafePress at 80 MPH Mom


Ends March 12
$30 at Cafepress at The King's Court IV
$30 at CafePress at Christian Clippers*

Ends March 15
$50 at CafePress at Twinners*

Ends March 18
$30 at CafePress at Tiffs Pixie Dust
$60 CafePress Gift Card at The Practical Mom*

Ends March 30
$30 at CafePress at Pink Dandy Chatter*

*I  earned extra entries for posting about ones marked with a star.

50% Off 2-Day Shipping - T-shirts Only!

The Bad News:  It's too late to get items from my shops by St. Patrick's Day using standard shipping.  You have to use 2-day or Express.

The Good News:  You can get 50% off 2 day shipping any t-shirt order at my Zazzle shop with coupon code IRISHLUCKY50 through  March 14, 2011 at 2:59PM PT!  So you can still get St. Patrick's Day t-shirts by the 17th without breaking the bank!

Scribbleprint Shamrock by scribbleprints
Browse other t-shirt designs made on zazzle.com