Thyme to show your true colors! RED, WHITE AND BLUE!

We will be at our new home on Cape Cod

for the

4th of July

so

I decorated my porch
 in

RED, WHITE AND BLUE

I found this old sifter at a thrift store

and

decided to make a floral arrangement in it

I purchased some red, white and blue artificial flowers

I made the banner!

You can find the

TUTORIAL

 to make a banner like this in

my blog post

HERE

Thank you to

Kim Dewalt

from

Old Road Primitives

for

this tutorial which I found

in the

February - March Issue

of

Prim Sisters Gazette

I bought some twig vines to put around my porch window

I had the stars

I added white lights

I wired a piece of floral styrofoam to the inside of the sifter

then covered it with moss

then I added the flowers

and

banner

I used an old flag to attach the banner to

I drilled holes in the sides of the sifter

to

wire on the banner

I added rusty bells using rusty pins

using this recipe

RUST RECIPE

1c peroxide

1 c vinegar

3 tbls salt

Combine all ingredients in a throw away container or glass.

 add bells, pins etc. and let set 1-2 days in mixture.

the mixture will most likely foam up and come over top of container

Remove items with a slotted spoon

and

put on cookie sheet with shallow side,

let sit in sun for day or too, can also dry indoors.

I cut out and painted a

Uncle Sam to put by the door

I love how it all came together!

What do you think

of

my porch?

Hugs,

Lynn