Patriotic Projects

The best part of signing up for Where Bloggers Create is cleaning up my creative space and finding long forgotten bits and pieces.

I found this wreath - I wrote about making the wreath here - and this little wreath led to a day of "patriotic" projects.

The first order of business was to paint a wooden board.

This Tic Tac Toe board, picked up cheap at Big Lots, worked for a fall vignette, but it has been sitting on a shelf since November.

To make the board fit my color scheme, I simply taped off the colored lines and slapped on a coat of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Old White.

Even painted white, I wasn't thrilled with the board's colors so all the lines were painted red and now the board actually looks good with the X's and O's that came with it.

I love the little wire wreath and don't know why it was stuffed into a cupboard,

but now with a red, white & blue update, the wreath will be out all summer.

The plan was for the wreath to hang on our red Dutch door,

but the poor little wreath was totally out of proportion with the door - maybe I need to make a large wire wreath.

So, the little wire wreath found its home in the dining room window.

I found the red and blue metal stars on a shelf in my work space so I created a patriotic display in the hallway.

I was excited to find some of Steve's left over canvas when I was looking for ribbon - I thought I was all out of canvas.

At 5:00 yesterday, I set down my book and decided I had time for one more project while Steve cooked dinner - believe me, no one wants me to cook any meals!

While the paint dried, I put the zipper on the backing and by 6:30 an American flag pillow was ready to be mailed off to a blogging friend.

With all my patriotic projects finished, one would think I could take a day off today, but last night I saw this cute little stamped bag at Paper Source.

The anchor stamp came home with me and today's order of business is to stamp napkins to match the fun dishes I just found at Tuesday Morning.

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