5 Great Patriotic Ideas for Holidays and Everyday

This weekend we celebrate the 4th of July, the USA's birthday!  What better time than to share these 5 great decorating ideas for your home, your porch, and even your backyard.

Summer is the best time for eating outdoors.  Why not set up this red, white, and blue tablescape to enjoy in your backyard?!  You can read the full post on it HERE.

How about a little Americana?  Painting the Stars and Strips on a piece of old fencing or pallet boards looks great!  Hang it on a wall in your home or outside on your porch.  This one sold at a charity auction last fall.

Not into DIY painting?  How about framing and hanging a real flag?  This Tennessee flag along with many others were on display at the Nashville Antiques and Garden Show earlier this year.  Loved this booth.  I'd love to have a room like this!

Now, this next one is the easiest of them all but it may be my favorite.  I placed an old red and white bird house (built by my husband's grandfather many years ago) on an old metal stool and added two small American flags.  This is currently by my front door.  You can see the whole front porch HERE.

And, last but not least, painting Old Glory on a piece of metal roofing.  A rusty piece, of course!  I hung this one above the door to our shed.  The full tutorial is HERE.

There are so many things you can do to add a patriotic feel to your decor or table.  Try fresh strawberries in a blue transferware bowl!  

How do you decorate for the 4th of July!?  I'd love to hear!!

Thanks for stopping by and God bless America!

Angie

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Memorial Day Appreciation

Happy Memorial Day!

I hope you're enjoying your holiday weekend.  I do want to take this time to say THANK YOU and to remember all those who are serving, that have served, and the family of those brave individuals!  

Memorial Day Tablescape

I love anything red, white, and blue.  Make it a holiday where I get to decorate using those colors and it's just the icing on the cake for me.  I store my linens and decor in totes based on holiday or color themes.  So, yesterday afternoon, I pulled out my red, white, and blue tote and put together this Memorial Day tablescape.

I began by layering Ralph Lauren's "Dylan's Grove" sheet and a simple piece of gardening burlap on my patio table.  I picked up this sheet at the thrift store and I would love to complete the set but the queen set on eBay goes for $350!  I'll keep checking the thrift stores, thank you.

Gosh, it's pretty ;)

I guess I'm still in a beach frame of mind since our vacation so I pulled out my enamelware lobster plates for the place settings.  

Added a blue and white cloth napkin and the mason jars that I painted (idea found here) and the table was set.

I purchased the buntings from Old Time Pottery many years ago.  I dreamed of using them on my front porch.  I didn't quite think it through when I bought them because our front porch has arches and hanging the buntings in the arches just looked wonky. More like pathetic.  No matter because I found another use for them yesterday.  

My youngest made these rustic benches using scrap boards and cedar logs.  I love them!  The buntings fit perfectly across the back.  

The last thing I added were some flowers to my metal tool box.  Did you know red geraniums are the most popular color?  I didn't either.  I took me going to three stores to find red.  I was obviously behind the holiday-weekend-planting-crowd.  I used two red geraniums, two white wave petunias, and one blue lobelia.  One lobelia because it was the ONLY blue plant left.  Yep, behind the crowd.

I hope you enjoy your Memorial Day weekend.  Please don't forget it's about remembering and honoring those that have served for our freedom and our rights.  They sacrifice so much and something receive so little in return.  Thank you to all who are serving or have served our country!  Thank you to the families of those heroes too!

Thanks for stopping by and God bless!
Angie


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