Some Decorating Ideas

Now I’m into some crafty diy decorating ideas. So I’ve been busy with some things. 

First, a burlap wreath. 

It’s simple. It’s 18” diameter. It’s things I had in my stash, so no new money spent on supplies. 

Supplies needed:

34” length of stiff, but bendable wire 

12ft roll of 6” burlap 

Your choice of ribbon 

Hot glue 

Thread center of the width of the burlap onto the wire using the end point of the wire as a needle to gather the burlap onto the wire. Gather burlap to your desired fullness/tightness and then hook both ends of the wire together to form a circle to create the wreath form. 

Make bow from your choice of ribbon and attach to wreath. Glue a jute rope piece onto back for hanger. 

I had to make a bunny door hanger to be in the Easter decorating mode. I free handed drew a floppy ear bunny on cardboard. I did measure from side to side to be sure ears, feet, face, and body were rather symmetrical on each side. Larry cut it out with a box cutter. I wrapped the bunny form with chunky yarn to give it a fuzzy feel and look, using hot glue along  the way to keep the yarn in place. Made a fun bow and a yarn pom-pom for the bunny tail. This bunny is huge/ 28” tall and 18” across. But oh so cute!

The burlap wreath and the bunny door hanger have found a new home. Jennifer, my daughter, claimed them both for herself.  

I enjoyed  making them even tho they didn’t get in my decor. Try making one of them for yourself or to give away. They are soooo easy. 

Gin 

Beautiful Day For A Ball Game

The sky was blue, the sun was bright, the breeze never stopped at the ball park today. Watch this video below of my girl the catcher. 

They are the 9up (9&10 year olds) Lady Bulls with a baseball/softball league. Of course, all the teams and players are fun to watch. But I like this catcher the best!!

Gin

Date Night

 Actually it was a full weekend date with one of the little ones in the family, Wyatt spent a few days and nights with us. He’s two. Our hands and heats were full. 

 He was so good. Was all smiles the whole time,  ❤️ 

Gin 

The old vintage flour sack

 Hello. Do you old enough to remember the  flour sacks from years gone by? I remember them from my the years with my grandma. I am in the possession of a lot of them from my husbands grandmother. I’ve had them now for years and years. Sine are plain muslin, some have the printed brand name in them. 

Anyway, it’s high time I enjoy them. My plan “A” is to turn the vintage flour sack into a flower sack. See the comparison there - flour / flower ?

The ingredients I needed: flour sack, 5” wide burlap ribbon, 1.5” burlap ribbon, napkin with design of your choice (I’m using bunnies), flower bouquet, mod podge or Elmer’s white glue, paint brush or sponge brush, scissors, hot glue gun. I think that will do it. 

First step is to cut the napkins motif object out fussy cutting around the object, separating the layers of the fabric so you only have one layer, and use a motif that fits in the width of your wide burlap ribbon. My flour sack is 18” around, so I need about 5 or 6 bunny motifs from my napkin. 

Mod podge the napkin bunny motifs on the burlap ribbon spacing then to your desire  NOTE: you can use Elmer’s white glue in place of mod  podge, it has the same effect to adhere and seal your motif in place and also dries clear. 

You’ve made your own bunny ribbon!!! 

Lay your bunny burlap ribbon you made on the flour sack and get ready to glue it in place. I placed mine about 2-3 inches from the bottom of the flour sack. It’s better to stuff your flour sack with something so it’s not flat as you glue the ribbon in place. I stuffed mine with an old pillow stuffing, just temporary cause it’s going to be a flower sack/basket not a pillow. 

Starting on the front center,  glue the top and bottom edge of the burlap bunny ribbon you made onto the flour sack.  When finishing  it in the back,  cut off excess burlap ribbon that is not needed and glue the two ends down in a smooth finish. 

Now. At the top of the flour sack, make a cuff by folding down the top 2 tunes or so (depending how tall you want the now flower sack to be. Make the narrow 2.5” burlap ribbon into a strap about 18-22”, glue onto the insides of the cuff where the handle should be. 

Add your flowers!!! 

You will need to add something to the bottom of the sack to help it stand up. I cut a cardboard about 3”x6” to lay in the bottom to give it a flat bottom for standing. and you may want to put a flower foam thing in the bottom to stick the flowers in to keep them straight and in place. And I stuffed the flower sack with  natural color raffia. Any type bag can be used like a blank canvas bag, sew your own bag up from fabric, or try those fiber/plastic shopping bags, etc.  

Now I feel quilty and feel the need to make one for Larry’s 3 sisters so they can have one of their grandma’s flour sacks. 

Gin 

Oops

 I forgot about the blog. Where does the time go? I have a few things to show and tell during the last few weeks

There was the birthday for me that I celebrated on and off depending where I was and who I was with. And throwing in a little Mardi Gras in the mix wasn’t a bad thing either. 

There’s no overload of pictures to share. But here’s one of me and Brooklyn snd Brynlee on a Tuesday doing a painting while celebrating my birthday and me having a play date with them while school was out for Mardi Gras. 

We are all quite the budding artist! 

I printed a few bunny and chick free printable templates for us to have a cheat sheet, then we painted the background of the camvas and then used the paint to draw our outline. And, VOILA! We painted it all in, painted the faces and ears and feathers. 

I do think we did good. 

Then there was lunch and cake. 

And a look at the float the girls softball league had in the Mardi Gras parade. 

Gin