{Traditional} Patriotic Themed Decor

My sister Molly  (my other sister, not Amanda who's house I've shared before) just moved into a new home and her traditional, Americana style is perfect for 4th of July!
She has allowed me to share her beautiful abode with the world, so thanks Molly!

A Birthday Wall!  Such a cute idea!  Every year she's had the girls' picture taken with their age and now they're arranged beautifully in a collage wall.  Which we all know I love love love collage walls.

 Aren't the doors and the woodwork in this house incredible?? and love those stairs! they will per perfect at Christmastime!

 These are the stairs that lead to the attic, she pulled them down and displaying the  vintage toys they have collected - brilliant!




How are you celebrating your independence (my American and Canadian friends) this week?? I'm heading HOME to Ohio in a few days!! For a few days filled with family, friends, fireworks, and hopefully lots and lots of watermelon :)

Twig Stars

I saw this image on pinterest the other day and knew they'd be super easy to make.

Source: farm6.static.flickr.com via Kelsey on Pinterest

I didn't have much going on yesterday evening so I went for a walk down my street looking for sticks to make stars out of.  a normal thing to do right??

You need 5 sticks of the same length per star.
I laid them out and decided which order I liked them in best, then hot glued them in place with just a dab of glue on the ends.
I wrapped twine around the ends of some of them, but a couple of the stars I liked the way they looked just as they were.  I think the inspiration image might have had too much string and twine for my tastes.

These will be great Christmas or patriotic holiday decorations and were practically free to make and only took about 5 minutes!!

AND on my walk I discovered this old sign!  It had more words but I just broke off the Grenada portion.
I don't know what to do with it yet, but I love it!