Most of y’all will remember our Patriotic Toothpick Wreath from last summer.
We were pretty fortunate to have it featured by Real Simple Magazine…..we share that honor with 5 other pretty stunning/creative wreaths made from things like paint chips, oyster shells and even dried white beans.
Check them out on the Real Simple website…..
Ohhhh, and have a great 4th of July
Say you’re sitting around with about 600 American flag toothpicks in your possession.
Just using this as an example, mind you. I mean, who just happens to have several hundred American flag toothpicks on hand?
(pause, followed by uncomfortable forced little laugh)………guilty.
Why did I let that happen? Was I really going to make that many cupcakes?
I found them for 30 cents a box a few years ago……and pounced without really thinking it through.
And now, after several cupcake-less July 4ths, I think I’ll use them to make a wreath.
On the off-chance that one of y’all isn’t quite the hoarder that I am, and wants to copy this project…..I found the same toothpicks for sale on Amazon.
But they are slightly more than the 30 cents a box that I paid. (During the Bush administration)
I also have this 18 inch white styrofoam wreath form. Pretty sure that I got it at Hobby Lobby.
Same one I used for the Peppermint Candy Wreath back in December. (not the EXACT same wreath………but you get the idea)
I used a little wire to make a hanging loop on the back of the wreath form……….like so.
Then I flipped the wreath over, so the hang loop is on the back……..sheeesh,
and go to town sticking in the flag picks.
I tried to get them as close together as possible, and at a slight angle.
After I covered the entire wreath, I went back over my work and added a flag everywhere there was a hole.
Nice and full.
After all, I have several hundred of those little picks. Might as well use all of them.
So to refresh:
600 American flag toothpicks + 18 inch foam wreath + a couple hours =
Happy America, Everybody!
We noticed quite a few visitors on the “Cavender Diary Visitation Stats” coming from Apartment Therapy this week.
So I followed them back to the source and found this……..
Yepp, there’s our den, and that big, beautiful American flag, featured under “American Style”……….right next to Martha – American Icon
It’s certainly great to have the unsolicited web exposure.
This picture was a few years ago after I completed the base for those Ikea expedit shelves, and made them look like a Real piece of furniture.
Here’s a few bigger pics…..
We’ve been fortunate enough to have been featured on Apartment Therapy several times; our garage, our kitchen, our master bedroom, and even been nominated for Best Home Blog a few times……
And every time we are, ya know what bothers Apartment Therapy readers the most about our house? (a very close second is all the taxidermy and the cow hide rugs) ………………..That darn American flag.
Don’t believe me, just read the comments on the AT post. All from people who think it’s disrespectful to display an American flag inside the house.
What the what?
It’s not a political statement.
I love that flag…….and everything that it stands for.
In fact, there’s one in almost every room of our house (sort of like Where’s Waldo?)
So haters, get over it…..and let’s all start displaying more American flags.
Like the ones featured in this ancient post of ours.
I was recently reading online about flags as home decor.
One reader commented that thumb-tacking a flag to your wall could only say “Dorm Room”….
“Yeah, the “Cool” dorm room,” is what I’m thinking.
The one where the door was always open. I could smell the incense and here the alternative music mixed with giggly girls from the end of the hall where my boring dorm room was.
What better way to express your impromptu patriotism, than tacking a flag up on the wall?…..
We have American flags in almost ever room of the house. We even pinned one in our den behind the TV,
Of course, she is linen and has 48 stars (we refuse to acknowledge Alaska and Hawaii as legitimate states in this house). We really do plan to frame it someday, just haven’t yet. So there she hangs.
I searched around the internets, and found several more rockingly cool examples of flags in decor. Some pinned, some framed….but all inspiring,
Why stop at just American flags?
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Pretty Groovy examples all, …….and not a “dorm room” in the bunch.
Update…
We increased the size of the American flag we have tacked over our television console in the den to counter the size of the new larger TV.
We still LOVE it, and wouldn’t have it any other way…..
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