Beannachtaí an tSéasúir! (Season's Greetings to you all!)

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November was a very busy month for LittleShamrocks.com. You may have already noticed that we have some new affiliate companies, including allposters.com for Irish (or other) prints & posters, and songhenge.com for Celtic music downloads. We became affiliated with Travelocity.com and now you can book your Ireland get-a-way directly from our site. Cooking.com is another new affiliate which will give you access to their over 30,000 cooking, baking and kitchenware products.

As I had mentioned in the November newsletter, several new holiday recipes are now online. I actually made more goodies than originally planned. We have 11 new recipes, including one for a Christmas Irish Castle Centerpiece, made with sugar cubes. The other recipes include Gingerbread Teddy Bears, Celtic Spiral Cookies, Christmas Bread Pudding, Springerle Cookies, Chocolate Box w/Berries & Cream, Sweet & Spicy Snack Mix, Irish Cream Coffee Fudge, Irish Cream Brownies, Irish Mint Chocolate Squares and Tyna's Two Christmas Cakes in One: Jolly Santa Cake & Festive Christmas Tree Cake, made from one recipe. We also now have a Holiday Recipes Index button which gives you easy access to the 2006 and 2007 holiday recipes. This page will be updated with upcoming 2008 holiday recipes for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Passover, Thanksgiving and the December Holidays.

Terry and I received a long and newsy letter from our good friend, Gerry Bohan. He has been keeping us informed about Leitrim happenings and we're always happy to hear the news. His most recent letter was so interesting that it gave me an idea, which I discussed with the rest of the staff, and it was thumbs up all the way around! I thought it would be interesting to our newsletter recipients and clientelle to add a new page written by Gerry, who is experienced in covering sports news for two of the Co. Leitrim newspapers. After the New Year, he has agreed to write a monthly column that will appear on his own page, The Leitrim Connection at LittleShamrocks.com, and it will also go out to our newsletter subscribers. Welcome, Gerry! We also received a Christmas card, along with a gift, from Thomas and Maura Casey. We were very happy to hear from them as Thomas had been ill for several weeks this past year. He is doing well and back to his old self again, which was fabulous news. Also, Irene is now teaching and lecturing three days a week at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth in Co. Kildare. Congratulations! They sent us the Christmas Special 2007 issue of Ireland's #1 Food Magazine, "Easy Food"�. This issue is packed with yummy Irish holiday recipes and decorating ideas. It was very much appreciated since I love to cook.

Now that I have updated you on LittleShamrocks.com, on behalf of the entire staff, I would like to thank all of you for your business and support. We wish you a wonderful holiday and all the best in the New Year.

Sláinte! (Good Health!)

Tyna