Star Spangled Wreath

I have been up to a few projects lately.  This is the newest completed project to my 4th of July ensemble.  I have never really decorated for the 4th before, but since I have had time and inspiration from blog land I decided to start my collection.

I started with these scraps of material that I cut lengthwise from salvage to salvage.  If you are not a very good sewer like I am, you can hand stitch these strips.  Ironing them in half lengthwise helps a lot.  Once you get it stitched, you gather the material down the string to ruffle it up and end up with all of these.

You can make a few of these beauties by edging these around a 1in diameter circle felt and gluing as you go with hot glue gun. 

 I also got a few of these star for $.25 each that I painted with acrylic paint red and white primer paint since I did not have any white in the house.  I didn't have any blue in the house either.

TIP:  I use meat trays to pour paint on to paint with all my projects.  Great recycling!

I then got a wooden wreath from the dollar store and covered it with burlap.  And then hot glued the flowers and stars and other embellishments to the wreath.

I thought it still needed something so I dug out the toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls that I have been saving (for what, who knows) to make firecrackers and covered them with material.  I found these toothpick sparkler like things at Michael's for $.99 for a package of them and glued them to the middle of the rolls to simulate the fuse of the firecrackers.  I wrapped a piece of burlap around the 3 firecrackers to hold them together and then hot glued them to sit inside the wreath like so.  Please don't mind all the dust on the screen door, it needs a good hose down.

I am very pleased at how the project turned out.  I hung it on the front door to welcome visitors. 

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Aloha~ Makalani ~Life is Good~