Irish Fest

This past weekend I participated in an Irish festival, full of Irish music, singing, and dancing. I saw Riverdance in high school and always wanted to learn how to dance like that. So a few years ago I found a local theater that offered lessons. We started with soft shoe lessons and then progressed to hard shoe. We've done a few exhibition dances, but never at a festival.

We aren't Riverdance perfect, but we try hard and we have fun! It's great exercise too!!

(It was also 95 degrees that day, which is evident on our faces!


Soft shoe


Hard Shoe (My teacher is the soloist)

My first...

Today was my first St. Patrick's Day as an Irishwoman. I do Irish stepdancing, my first name is Irish, and my maiden name was a river in Ireland, but I was not Irish. This year, I'm Irish by marriage and that's good enough for me!

A very kind and gracious woman at our church crocheted this for us when we got married. We don't even know her that well, but her ministry is to do this for all newly married couples. I guess the gifts we don't expect or deserve are often the sweetest!

Erin Go Bragh!

Irish Steppin' and A Public Service Announcement

I decided my Irish dancing shoes needed a new home, so I made them a bag. I'm into bags lately.... More will be coming! I've been Irish dancing for mmm.... about four years now. I absolutely love going to my class. It's fun, challenging, and a great workout.
The soft shoes are called ghillies. The hard shoes are just...hard. Be careful not to kick yourself in the shin.
The bag details: Fabric - Amy Butler
Pattern - Chic Bags
It was a really simple pattern to put together..... Recommended!

Public Service Announcement: Back up your computer! Back up your pictures, your music, your documents, everything! My laptop hard drive decided not to work this past week. I had to get a new one, but thankfully my husband's friend was able to get ALL my stuff off my old hard drive. I was so thankful.

Now that the computer is recovered, I plan on posting more often. It's a goal.