Keep Home Simple: 4th of July

Jun 30, 2010

Simple 4th of July Centerpiece

Want to make a really simple 4th of July centerpiece?

Go check out Martha HERE.

She's got all the details.

{By the way, those red, white, and blue things are supposed to look like fireworks, not Carnations...Martha's look so much better! So go check them out!!!}

Jun 23, 2010

4th of July Garland

The 4th of July is coming really soon and I am soooo excited!

It's one of my favorite holidays!

It may sound silly, but I get teary eyed each year just watching the 4th of July parade!

I feel so proud to be an American!

I love our country, our freedoms, and the courage and intellect that our forefathers had.

Unfortunately, I don't have very many decorations for the 4th of July.

So this year I wanted to make something that would be inexpensive, but also something that I could reuse year after year.

So I decided to make some garland for my fireplace.

(Really you could drape garland anywhere you like.)

Supplies needed:

twine

1 sheet ea. of red, white, & blue felt

(all together the felt cost me $1.00 at Michael's)

thread

scissors

hot glue gun/hot glue

First step: Cut circles out of the felt. I cut mine free handed and made all my red circles large, all my white circles medium, and all my blue circles small.

Next: I wanted my circles to have some depth. So I folded my felt circle in half and made 2-3 stitches about 1/5 of an inch up from the bottom of my fold.

Then I folded my felt circle in half the other way and sewed another 2-3 stitches.

This is what my felt circle looked like on the bottom after all my stitching was done.

...and this is what they look like from the top.

After all my circles were cut and stitched (I think I had about 11 of each color), I hot glued them to some twine and hung my garland on my fireplace!