Showing posts with label st david's day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label st david's day. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Happy St David's Day!

The Scrappy Tree would like to wish you a very happy St David's Day! St David is the patron saint of Wales, and on March 1st every year, this is celebrated across Wales; children at school wear the national costume, and many people wear a daffodil or a (fake!) leek, as these are both Welsh national symbols.

As you may know, one of the Scrappy Tree team lives in Wales, so we thought we would offer you a chance to experience a bit of Wales for yourself! Create a project of your choice using the colours yellow and green (representing the colours of the daffodil) and upload a picture to our Scrappy site here. The competition will close on 14th March and we'll announce the winner on the 15th!

You'll win the items shown:- two Welsh recipe books (one sweet, one savoury), some Welsh tea, a Wales mug, a Welsh dragon (a red dragon appears on the Welsh flag), a felt leek, a lovespoon (these were originally carved and given as a gift to a sweetheart; the symbols represent different sentiments) and not shown here we'll also include some Welshcakes for you to enjoy with a nice mug of tea!
Of course the real prize is this cute little dragon! :)

To be in with a chance of winning, get those yellow and green supplies out and get creating! Happy St David's Day!

Monday, March 1, 2010

Happy St David's Day!

Wanting to wish you all happy St David's Day from The Scrappy Tree! March 1st is the day of the patron saint of Wales, Dewi Sant (St David).
For the benefit of Scrappy Tree-ers living outside the UK, many Welsh people feel that this should be a national holiday, but until the prime minister gives it the thumbs up, today is mainly celebrated by wearing the Welsh symbols of daffodils and leeks (often not real ones!) and in the schools, the children dress up in traditional Welsh costume and take part in Welsh language music festivals. Cawl (Welsh stew) and Welsh cakes are eaten all year round, but are well known as Welsh dishes. Check out Wikipedia for some more information!

I also want to say a big thank you to everyone who took part in our first Art Journal Friday challenge over the weekend - we had a great response and I'm grateful to everyone for sharing their work! If you want to see the amazing pages that were created this weekend, visit the Art Journal Friday group at our Ning site.
Our next Art Journal Friday will be on the 26th March, hope to see you there!

Gayle