Milk or No Milk?

Did anyone have pie yesterday to celebrate Pi Day? It had not even occured to me that it was Pi day until I got a fun text message from College Girl..."Happy Pi Day, mom. You know, 3.14!" March 14~

And speaking of fun things, Craftionary has 60 free St. Patrick's Day printables for some last minute crafting and decorating~ I'll bet you find something you'd like to print!

College Girl is taking an Intro to Film class, and this weeks' assigned movie is Psycho....not my first choice of a movie to go with a pot of tea!! But I watched it with her this afternoon while we sipped robust cups of Barry's Tea, an Irish favorite. Perhaps tomorrow afternoon we'll watch The Quiet Man~

I have 2 other Irish dolls to share with you this week. The first one is from the American Girls Doll Collection~

She is a dancer and holds a medal she just won at the Feis~

 Feiseanna are generally centered around Irish Dancing competitions, and sometimes include music competitions, art competitions, Irish language classes and soda bread baking competitions. An Irish Dance competition that features only dancing is called a "Feile", or simply "Feis" in the U.S.

College Girl got this doll when she was reading the American Girl book series...that was a few years ago, now!

This doll has Celtic knots embroidered on her dress and cape~

Her hair is fashioned in long tight curls for the competition~

 Next is a Marie Osmond doll called Adora Belle. Marie sculpted the face for this doll, which has big eyes and comes in a variety of outfits: this particular one wears a green dress perfect for St. Patrick's Day

She has a crocheted collar, her hair is plaited, and she is vinyl. There are some versions of Adora Belle which are porcelain. Can you just imagine her looking for a four leaf clover, making sure not to step in any puddles...she wants to keep her new ghillies clean!

Under the crochet made by her grandmother, you can see that her bodice laces up~

Dainty, sweet and feminine, this green eyed girl bedecked her hair with wild flowers she found on her shamrock hunt!

Doesn't she have a button nose?

   I have a giveaway this week in celebration of St. Patricks Day and Ireland. To enter please tell me if you drink milk and sugar in your tea:

milk or no milk?

sugar or no sugar?

If you do not have a blog, leave some way for me to contact you. Give away ends March 24. I will send a box of tea to the random winner!

sharing all my Irish posts this week with;

Mrs. Fox's Sweets Irish Party

If you want to read a fascinating bit of history about Ireland and

 St. Patrick visit:

The Writers Reverie