St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock

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This unique St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock table ornament is handmade by CELIStial Art from repurposed and recycled materials. The simplicity of its design highlights the possibilities that lay within ordinary materials. This potential dares you to push your creativity and imagination to higher levels. This versatile decoration is perfect to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Christmas and birthdays. In emerald-green with green glitter, this St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock ornament will brighten up any branch of your Christmas Tree. Place one shamrock on each place setting for a delightful St. Patrick’s Day tablescape. Or hang it by a window so the sun can catch its glitter crystals and, perhaps, create a lucky rainbow.

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Note: Given the handmade nature of these figurines, no two are exactly alike. The pictures represent just one example.

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD – Small parts. Not for children under 4 years. This is NOT a toy. Handle it under adult supervision.

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St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock

 

Letter Ihave always had a very vivid imagination. As kids, my twin sister Claudia and I, would imagine the most fantastic worlds of make-believe. Coloring was the favorite past-time of my childhood. My colored-pencil drawings were filled with fantastic creatures. And leprechauns with their rainbows, pots of gold, and shamrocks were frequent visitors of the magical realms I invented on the sheets of coloring paper.

As an adult, I instilled the love for the magical world of fantasy to my children. So, the leprechaun always came to our house the morning of St. Patrick’s Day and would leave a trail of shamrocks behind him. My daughter Laura Elena would wake early in the morning to find her bedroom floor sprinkled with green shamrock confetti. She would wake up her brother Michael, and together they would scour the house for green shamrocks. Laura would collect them in a Ziploc bag and take them to school as evidence of the magical visit of the Leprechaun.

So, I created this unique St. Patrick’s Day shamrock ornament to honor those fantastic creatures I weaved through my childhood colored-pencil drawings, and to those morning hours at home when my children were immersed in the magical world of the St. Patrick’s Day Leprechaun.

St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Ornament Design Process

Believe it or not, this St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock ornament is made from cardboard tubes of the same diameter. The tubes are toilet paper rolls. I took the cardboard tubes and flattened them by passing them through a pasta making machine. Once flattened, I cut the tubes in thin strips, all the same width. I shaped the cardboard circles into a heart shape by stitching it with a very thin thread. Then, I glued them together to make the shape of the shamrock.

Once the shamrock was assembled, I dipped it in green paint. After the shamrock had dried, I dipped it in polyacrylic gloss and immediately into a tub of green glitter and hung it to dry. Finally, I used green string to make a hoop to hang it from.


Specifications

Year Designed

2021

Size

Actual sizes may vary slightly, approximately 3.25” x 4.25” x 5.0”

Materials

Cardboard, acrylic paint, glitter, and clear polyacrylic gloss.

Note: Given the handmade nature of the ornament, all ornaments are different. The pictures depict just one sample of the ornament.

Additional information

Weight 3 oz
Dimensions 5 × 5 × 5 in

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