Decorating: 4th of July

Again keeping to my theme of simple, here is my 4th of July decorating this year.


I finally made a banner of leftover fabrics in red, blue, white, and canvas that I have been wanting to make since last year:

This is something I made on the back of a wooden puzzle that lost all its pieces, a string of a red broken zipper to hang it up, leftover canvas and red ticking, upholstery ribbing (i have a huge roll of it that I use on many projects) and a star I cut out of leftover denim jeans. I painted the board cream and hot glued everything else together:

Simple star decorations placed in containers here and there:

Took out one of my antique table clothes that is sewn in 4th of July colors and draped it over my kitchen curtain:

What have you done for the 4th of July decorating?

Lucky Late than Never

So this is supposed to be a craft blog, and I barely post anything crafty here...blame the time game on that one.

So here is some tidbits from my March Lucky decorating. I kept it simple: changed out the jars in my soda crate hanging on the wall in the lobby. Every month it has a different look and theme. This is March's look. The top row has thrifty paper crinkles that I made myself from lunch bags. The second row has wheat berries and cupcake lucky charms inserted. The bottom row has green polka dot scrapbook paper and chipboard letters that I had on hand spelled "luck." The top of the shelf: I shopped my house and put them on there:

I collect vintage Ball jars, and change up things inside them all the time:

Plus my favorite decor item is my gumball machine. The month of March had the thrifty shredded paper cut from a lunch paper bag, crunched up, thrown it, and added some shamrocks I had on hand:

I let my kids use the cupcake shamrock toothpicks I had leftover and they stuck them all over the place. Here is a few in my antique milkvase with the new sprigs of spring grass growing it in, from wheat berries:

I added a bit more green on my piano. I have two antique milkvases on it, and I am always trying to come up with ideas to fill it up with something cute. The weather got weird in Feb and Mar: superhot, supercold, superhot, supercold. I decided not to plant my mints in March and temporarily put them in the vases for instant lucky green:

This thrifted makeover shelf has something new hanging from it or on it every month. The month of March had my lucky star charms I made last year hanging on it:

So that's it. Very very simple. Being a busy mom who lives in her car only allows me a tiny bit of decorating in the house lately. Keep tuned in for April/Easter decorating that I did.