4th of July Decor: Vintage Chic Style

I don't typically decorate for the 4th of July but I've been feeling a little uninspired and I know if I have a "reason" to get inspired or change something up for the creative ideas to start flowing. For smaller holidays I'll do just smaller areas in our home like the dining room I went around the house and looked for blue & white items. Just by adding some American flags and blue décor that was enough to get the 4th of July feel.

Faux white peonies, a blue vintage scale, white dishes with a touch of red and blue mason jars. I like mixing vintage pieces in with the 4th décor by adding brass candle sticks and old crib spindles.

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4th of July Decor: Vintage Chic Style

Modern Easter Table Setting

When It comes to party décor, I love a lot of different styles! My favorite is vintage but, I love modern as well when it comes to party décor. Since we'll be having an Easter party at our house, I thought what a great chance to mix vintage and modern!

The black & white paper, mini garden pots and napkin ring holders add the perfect touch of modern!

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I used gold chargers, black & white stripped wrapping paper for the table cloth & layered it with lace. 

I absolutely LOVE the Pioneer Woman goblets and dessert glass!! These will get used for many parties to come:)

I made the napkin ring holders out of toilet paper rolls and wrapped ribbon around them. I painted small terracotta pots black and white, places a moss ball inside it and topped it off with a ceramic bunny head. Isn't it cute? 

Hope I've inspired you to play with some vintage and modern décor for your next party!

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Modern Easter Table Setting

DIY Faux Cotton Boll Ball

Who doesn't love natural cotton right now? The price for anything cotton is a bit pricey though. When I got to looking for more natural cotton items online I decided to make my own. I've seen others make their own cotton stems but, I wanted a sphere/ball. The Dollar Tree sells a bag of 3 for a $1 and a bag of cotton balls is cheap! This cost about $1 or less to make!

You will need a Styrofoam ball, hot glue gun, cotton balls and pine cones.

 

Take 3-4 pine cone petals and hot glue them to a cotton ball.

You will then put some hot glue on the Styrofoam ball and hot glue the cotton ball with the pine cone petals to the Styrofoam ball. I poke the pine cone petals into the Styrofoam ball for extra support.

This is a picture so that you can see the pine cone petals poked into the Styrofoam ball.

Push them into the Styrofoam ball.

 Just keep doing this until you have  filled the whole ball! Doesn't it look realistic?

 You could add a hook or ribbon to these and hang them....so many possibilities!

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DIY Faux Cotton Boll Ball

Upcycled Drawer to Shadow Box

 It's a little hard for me to toss solid wood items!

 

My boys were ready for a room makeover and it was time to toss their desk. I tried selling it for a small price and - NOTHING!

 

Which turned out to be a good thing. Before kicking the ugly little wood desk to the curb, I saw new life in the drawers!

 

 

What they looked like when I propped them up. I have three of them and have only redone one of them.

 

First I painted it all white except for the bottom part. I re-stained the bottom board.

I used Mod Podge to place some pretty left over napkins to the back wall. 

 

 

 

I have two more drawers to do and plan on hanging them together on the wall.

 

 

 

 

Linking To:

 



http://www.frommyfrontporchtoyours.com/2015/09/treasure-hunt-thursday-219-highlights.html

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Upcycled Drawer to Shadow Box

Burlap Bunny Embroidery Hoop

Anyone else obsessed with embroidery hoops? So simple to use and I think very versatile. They have a very vintage feel to them but yet updated with the right art inside of them.

 

 

The Easter banner is from Kirkland's and the pom pom garland I made with jute twin and pom poms from Target Dollar Spot as well. 

 

I found a template of a bunny silhouette that I liked, printed it and cut it out.

I traced the silhouette with chalk and didn't worry about being exact with the tracing. Its difficult to be exact with burlap. 

I used a 10 in. embroidery hoop to hang it. It was a little bit of a challenge to get it to fit! I had to close the top part slightly and stretch/squeeze the outer part to get it to go on and close it as tight as possible. 

 

I painted the bunny in with white paint, let it dry and put a bow on him.

 

 

I used pink jute twine that I picked up at Target Dollar Spot for the little bow on the neck.

Loving the Dollar Spot at Target this year!!

 

 

 

 

Come back next week for the tutorial on how to make that tissue paper tassel hanging above him:)

 

 

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Twigg Studios 



 

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Burlap Bunny Embroidery Hoop