Blue Jean & Burlap Patriotic Wreath

Blue Jean & Burlap Patriotic Wreath

What could be more American than faded blue jeans and burlap?

Hello, sweet friends!

Today I’m sharing a quick and easy DIY that I did to decorate our front door for the 4th of July!

To start with your going to need a few supplies. I’m sure many of you already have these items in your home right now!

Foam Wreath

Blue Jeans

Scissors

Red and White Burlap Ribbon

My styrofoam wreath form has seen better days but that’s okay. The holes will be covered up in no time. And besides, it’s FREE! You know how this gal likes that word!

The first step to creating this fun wreath is to cut the jeans and burlap ribbon into strips. I’m the absolute WORST when it comes to cutting a straight line. But no worries! These strips don’t have to be perfect! They just need to be long enough to wrap around the wreath form to tie. Which…I might add some of my weren’t! (Oh well, the ribbon was free too since I had it in my Christmas stash!)

Next, you just simply start wrapping each strips of denim around the wreath and tying them off. You can do whatever ratio you want as far as color.  I went about 4-5 strips of denim and then added a red strip of burlap-then 4-5 strips of denim and then a white strip of burlap.

Once I had the wreath filled in I added one more piece of ribbon to the top for hanging, before I fluffed my wreath up a bit!

The last step was adding some stars to my stripes! (Get it?) That’s a little patriotic humor there. LOL!

My stars were a bit worn looking so I gave them a fresh coat of white paint!

While three of them dried I went about seeing which stencils I could use to create the lettering for USA. I ended up using these teenie weenie ones! ( 1 inch) They fit perfectly in the center of the stars! I chose True Navy Blue as my letter color just because it was all I had on hand.

Once the paint for the letters was dry I just hot glued them to either side of the wreath and one at the top of my ribbon for hanging.

I just love the worn denim against the pops of red and white. It reminds me of an old flag that has been blowing in the wind so long its edges are worn and torn.

Those that are new here to the blog might not know it, but I wasn’t born here in the USA. My place of birth was Toronto, Canada. My mother, older sister, and I came to the USA when I was just six years old.

In my mid-twenties, it became extremely important for me to become a US citizen. I wanted a voice. But most importantly I wanted to be a part of this AMAZING country. My mom did too. Even though I had gone to school in this country since 1st grade, we both studied hard and learned more about America than I believe most of its natural-born citizens know. (At least that is what we were told back then!)

You can bet on the day we took our oath there were plenty of tears..but most of all there was a great pride!

I look forward to the celebration of our countries independence every year! This year, of course, will be different because of the COVID 19, but that in of itself is a reason to celebrate this great nation even more! We will overcome this, as we have everything else!

I hope you and yours enjoy a safe and AMAZING Fourth of July!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

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