Hi Tammy, If you can bake a basic sugar cookie, a cute idea is a bag of Leprechaun Kisses. I used a sugar cookie recipe that asks you to form the dough into a small ball on your cookie sheet... and I made really small balls, about 1/2" in diameter and pressed a Hershey's COOKING Kiss (which is much smaller than silver foil covered Kisses)into the center of each ball, which flattens it a tad.Bake until they are barely bowning,or per your recipe, and remove to cooling rack. Put 6-8 in the St.Patrick's Day motif cupcake paper cups or just use white ones, and stack 6 cupcake cups full in a cellophane bag ($ Tree) with the shamrocks on it(I used a piece of thick white cardboard from new shirts, cut in the exact rectangular dimensions of the inside of the bag,and placed in the bottom of the bag, and between each layer of cookies, to give the cupcake cups of cookies more stability, and keep the bag upright. I punched 2 holes near the tops of the bag and threaded green and white curly ribbon thru the holes and added a decorated tag that had the Leprechaun Kisses poem on it!I'll try to find the site on the net for the poem,and e-mail it to you, and you can go directly there and print out the tags. I made these for my daycare moms and dads, too, and made teeny weeny cookies with a Nestles' semi-sweet morsel stuck in the top! They were the cutest...just a tad bigger than Goldfish. Oh, I sold the tagged and bagged ones for $4/bag to the Teamsters,in DC where my sister works... and I had so many requests for "normal sized cookies" that I made the standard size cookie with the regular Hershey's Kiss in the center and sold them as "Bunny Kisses for Easter !(2 Doz for $4! Enjoy !

Sue used to collect old clothing and cut it into strips about 4" wide, and old nylons and pantyhose that she cut into strips, rolled them, lay them along the middle of the clothing strips, then lifted the edges, turned the cut ends inside and sewed the cloth into a tube, with the pantyhose strips inside, that she then lay alongside other similar tubes and sewed them together into what became a rather large rug. It was rather difficult to arrange the adjustment as one went around the ends so that it lay flat and didn't bunch up. ole joyful

Thanks for the ideas. The shades will be up during the day and down at night. I am not a good sewer! but it looks like roman shades are more about measuring. I have been very impressed with the Terrell Designs website and have watched the videos several times and plan to follow the directions exactly. So I am worried about adding a seam. I called Calico Corners and they were very nice about it and offered to take the fabric back and help me find something else. I've been scouring their website but I don't think I see anything I like as well in my price range. So, maybe I should work with this fabric. It needs to go with creamy white woodwork, dark furniture, a medium blue chair and the rug below. (Wall color not yet picked):

I have seen these before. I know I would never have one on my bed though. I have a cousin who makes them. She gave my two brothers each one. They are so heavy. I can't stand anything that heavy on me when I am trying to sleep. Ty Joann for the craft ideas though and for everything else you do.