Luck of the Irish!

I'm only a quarter Irish - but I grew up in Western Massachusetts where the Holyoke St. Patrick's Day parade is practically a religion in its own right.  I grew up on a street that is just off the parade route and watched it every year in my youth.

I had the pleasure of watching the parade again last weekend after many many years of missing it!

(point of interest that will surely age me: the building behind the Clydesdale horses was my elementary school... in the back engraved into the stones above the doors were separate entrances for boys and girls!  And there was a line down the middle of the playground that separated the girls and boys during recess too! hahahahah!)

I made some little shamrocks for earrings and was tasked with making several more pairs for my Irish friends for next year's parade!

 And just a few days before St. Patrick's Day, I got very lucky and won this amazing stash of beads from an Artbeads contest on Facebook! 



Now I need to get busy using these great beads!