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    DIY Memorial Day Luminary

    3:54 AM - By 

    I can not be more pleased with the out­come behind this sim­ple Memo­r­i­al Day lumi­nary. Not only is it upcy­cled but I was able to use a crack­le prod­uct by Valspar that I had been excit­ed to try!. Grab your­self an old jar and a can­dle and come make one of these beau­ti­ful lumi­nar­ies for your­self or in remem­brance of one of the brave men and women that gave their all serv­ing our beau­ti­ful country. You can see some of my favorite patri­ot­ic and Memo­r­i­al Day DIYs here! Supplies for the Memorial Day Luminary Old mid sized jar…I’m using a pick­le…

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    Memorial Day Poppy Flower DIY

    3:53 PM - By 

    Often­times when we think of Memo­r­i­al Day our minds auto­mat­i­cal­ly shift to the unof­fi­cial start of Sum­mer. I want­ed to take a moment to hon­or the lives of those that give mean­ing to the Memo­r­i­al Day that we observe. It is my hope that this Memo­r­i­al Day DIY will help us to remem­ber those that gave their lives defend­ing our beau­ti­ful coun­try that we know and love. Memorial Day DIY Poppy Flower ‑Supplies Needed Scrap Wood Plank Red Fab­ric from the Fab­ric Fan Club Sticks from the yard White Paint ( I am using Plas­ter by Waverly) Stain or Antique Glaze (I am using…

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    How to Make an Easy Patriotic Banner with Ribbon

    2:24 PM - By 

    I am excit­ed to share with you just how easy and beau­ti­ful this patri­ot­ic door hang­er can be with just a lit­tle wood plank and ribbon!  For me, patri­ot­ic decor around the home­stead always seems to be lack­ing. Sum­mer hol­i­days always seem to sneak up on me and I find myself scram­bling around last minute to come up with a few good sum­mer­time decor ideas. This project start­ed with a pre-dis­tressed board from the Wal-Mart craft cen­ter and a pack of 6 lit­tle wood­en stars from the same isle. I’m sure the same sup­plies can be found at your local craft…

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    DIY Projects - Scrap Wood Projects

    4x4 Scrap Wood Firecracker Ideas

    1:54 PM - By 

    Have you seen all these adorable 4x4 Scrap Wood Fire­crack­er ideas cir­cu­lat­ing on Pin­ter­est? Me too! Along with about a mil­lion oth­er scrap wood block projects for your home. These lit­tle things are just so darn cute to add to your July 4th décor or oth­er patri­ot­ic holidays.  I have gath­ered a few of my favorites right now from oth­er cre­ative dec­o­ra­tors like your­self and I hope they inspire you to dig into your own scrap wood stash! Where Can I find 4x4 Blocks of Wood? Don’t have acrap wood handy? That’s ok! I may have just the ticket! I put wayyy…

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    Easy Wood Block Flag Banner

    12:35 PM - By 

    This project was inspired by THIS ONE I made last year. I decid­ed to try my hand at cre­at­ing some­thing with a more prim­i­tive look. Prim­i­tive and clas­sic has always been my favorite theme for sum­mer hol­i­days. There just seems to be a lot of nos­tal­gia dur­ing the warmer months.  Prim­i­tives usu­al­ly have dark­er shades of col­or with a nice rus­tic feel to them and that is what I want­ed to make sure I cap­tured with this lit­tle ban­ner. Keep in mind you could use scrap wood or even pal­lent wood to cre­ate this look too. Or if that isn’t…

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    Embroidery Hoop Barn Wood Sign

    1:42 PM - By 

    SUPPLIES Scrap wood or Barnwood 3 Embroi­dery Hoops Cute Print­ed Paper Napkins Wood Let­ters Rib­bon Hot Glue Every once in a while you get one of those genius ideas where the light bulb just goes off. ..yeah that was me with THIS project! It all stemmed from a need to throw some last minute decor togeth­er for the 4th. We lit­er­al­ly went from no plans to …uhhh were gonna have a house full of peo­ple tomor­row and I need to get my crap (for the lack of a bet­ter word) togeth­er. Now mind you, it i‑i-i-is just fam­i­ly com­ing over for…

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    Easy 4th of July Decor

    8:13 PM - By 

    Sup­plies An assort­ment of small branches  White Spray Paint of your choice Col­or­ful wood beads Wood Craft Stars Wood Stain of your choice  Hot Glue Gun Last night we had some CRAY‑Z storms roll through, knock­ing down trees and blow­ing limbs and leaves every-stinkin-where. Inspi­ra­tion came for this project as I stood gaz­ing out my win­dow dread­ing the yard work in my near future. Then it hit me…why do yard work when you can DIY?  Me and my handy man, Linc, went and gath­ered a few branch­es. I mean after all, we were get­ting limbs out of the yard. Two birds, one stone and…