cruising around pinterest i was noticing my eye kept finding ideas for the 4th of july.
it's always such happy stuff!
love the colors.
U-S-A all the way!
(one time we sat a parade and a lady next to us chanted that the whole time…it was…odd )
here are some cuties i found today.
i actually do nothing to decorate or get cute for the fourth….
but when i see it all together
it sure does get my creativity going!
what are YOU doing for the fourth?
going to a party?
hosting a party?
i miss our fourths in illinois….chicago jen knows how to party. :)
i am going to pick ONE thing from this post and do it.
but i am not sure which one yet.
i have a week to decide.
Krystina / lollipops - are you on pinterest? i can’t find you – i would LOVE to be following your lovely pins!!!
Heidi Jo the Artist - If all goes well…we will be traveling to Illinois! To the last http://cornerstonefestival.com/ Bittersweet.
Sue linse - I miss seeing you across the street during the parade!
misty - we are going to the parade in Edmond, Ok. I have lived in Ok most of my life and never been. It’s a BIG deal.
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I can’t wait to go. I bought my girls matching outfits & we are going to wear red white & blue- wave flags, take pictures, & have FUN. 🙂 We always go to the private fireworks show at my best friends neighborhood on candlestick beach, but we are in a burn ban & not sure if they are going to do it or not this year. Happy 4th!
Jolene (Homespun Heritage) - Ok, maybe its pregnancy hormones or something equally fickle but the toe pic squished between two food pics actually had me a bit nauseous! HA!
We’re spending a bit of the 4th at our local Creamery, they are blessing our family with a portion of their sales on the 4th of July for our Chinese adoption, we’re hoping to travel in July to bring home our two blessings!
Meredith - Star fruit and blueberries is what I am going to make and maybe even paint the toes. Love these thanks for sharing!!!
Kim - i am the same way.
i always GO to 4th parties, never host or have a need to decorate.
but there are some GOOD pinterest finds, which i’m pretty sure i’m going to have to replicate this weekend. 🙂
God bless them all. 😉
Katherine @ Grass Stains - Those strawberries dipped in white bark and blue sugar were made by my friend Stephanie! Her blog is Plain Chicken, and she lives in Birmingham, Ala. (I live here, as well.) I made those strawberries last year for July 4th after I saw them on her blog. I couldn’t find the blue sugar, but I used colored sprinkles, and they came out really cute anyway! Hope you have a wonderful 4th. 🙂
Peta - Your kids could do the wind chime cans for craft Thursday. Hanging off the balcony of your farmhouse? Cute!!!! Then you can pick another. My hubby will be in the US (San Fran) for the fourth. It will great for him to see how it’s celebrated!
Jessica - We’re headed to my in-laws’ lake place. My mother-in-law and I will decorate the boat and have fourth attire for everyone including fake tattoos! We swim, eat and shoot off fireworks. As a treat this year the kids and I are going to make your rainbow “windsocks”. Maybe I can get my act together and make the chocolate covered strawberries too!
Amy Griffin - I wanna follow you on pinterest too. S I can Meg stalk…..lol
Amy @ Little for a Little While - This makes me so happy! I was just thinking today that my three year old would be all over some 4th of July decorations, we’re totally making something from here!
Alice H - I’m going to make that cake! And paint my toenails…or go have them painted. LOL!
It stinks when the 4th falls on a weekday. But we are going over to some friends to swim, eat, and do firewors. Hope you have a good one!
Kelly - You know that cake in a jar? The silver fork in the photo is the same pattern I have, passed down by my grandma and it was my great-grandma’s. She gave it to me shortly before our wedding and my sweet husband found a cake server in the same pattern on ebay and bought it for me to use at our wedding to serve the wedding cake because he knew I was wanting a vintage one. Soo sweet! I had it engraved with our monogram too.
Anyway, speaking of vintage and weddings, I LOVED the rehearsal dinner y’all pulled off! Wow! It was so much fun to look at all the photos! Great, great ideas all around! I loved the metal basket things used to serve. I collect things like that.
You and all of your friends look so young! Really!!
What a sweet bride to let her husband have all his favorite foods for the rehearsal dinner. Some brides are so self-focused on wedding stuff. What a refreshing thing to see.
Kelly
katey - Those are awesome. I pinned one last week that was strawberries, blueberries and marshmallows on wooden skewers laid out on a platter in the colors of our flag. So cool and easy. And yummy of course! Enjoy!
julie.mcmillan@trane.com - We will be having a big family get-together on the banks of the Ohio River. My mother-in-law has a wonderful home there and we are actually going to set up for an outdoor movie for the kids on Tuesday night – (your party looked like so much fun and I have been wanting to do this for months now)! There is a big empty lot next to her place so it will be perfect for setting up tents for those brave enough to handle the outdoors all night. Everyone pitches in, bringing lots and lots of food and we will grill out and have fireworks and games and swimming in the mighty Ohio! Have a Happy 4th! LOOVVEE reading your blog Meg!
Dani - We are having a parade in my small town that morning. Then movie & fireworks in the park that night. Can’t wait!
I love the tin can windsocks. I think my kids would love to make these!
Han - I’ll be working – I live in the UK so we don’t celebrate but my colleague will be she’s based in our US office.
Lindsey - I’ll be in a wedding! One of my best friends is getting married that day – she loves July 4th and has always wanted to get married on the day, so she decided just to go for it, even if it *is* a Wednesday. 🙂
I LOVE that decked-out bike! So cute!
karen - america really does have the best looking flag. so cool and so fun to decorate with.
you can’t do as many cool things with the canadian flag.
jeana - we’re having a party at our new (old) house. i’m so excited. this is one of my favorite holidays!
Heather - I like that you said you were going to pick one thing. Sometimes I feel like I should either go all the way or not at all. Then I don’t do anything, because I feel overwhelmed. I think I’ll do one thing, too. 🙂
Leah - I love the Fourth of July! The music. The red, white and blue. So fun! We already decorated the house. For the actual day, we go to our community parade. Then usually to my parents for pool and BBQ. Then fireworks, of course! Can’t wait to see what craft you pick. I vote for the can windsocks.
Jenn B - I love these ideas! They look so fun. I may do one of the food ideas. We are going to a new friends house for a fourth of July party. Should be fun!
Tkkpsing - How do I follow you on Pinterest, Meg? 🙂 Am I missing a button someplace?
karen gerstenberger - Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas…I won’t likely do any of them this year, but loved the inspiration! I’m working on beach-themed table centerpieces for my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary celebration (which will be held later this summer).
For the 4th, we’re having a house guest to stay – all the way from Vienna, Austria! She is a dear family friend who was born in California, but is now a “diva” and travels the world singing. We will share our small-town traditions with her, and end the evening watching the big-city (Seattle) fireworks across Puget Sound from my parents’ home. Thanks for asking!
Jennifer Andersen - You should poll your readers to see which one we think you will do. My money is on the star banner or wreath. If I were to choose for myself I’d do the bike tires. Super cool!
Lisa M. - I saw the blue sprinkled white chocolate strawberries in a magazine and was going to do that for my small group next Tuesday! I might do the star shaped watermelon too! And I LOVE the wreath!! Thanks for sharing!
kerry - Meg, Pleeeease link it up to our Pinterest Challenge – linky opens Monday for a week on my blog.. we’d love to have you join us! Here’s a link to one of our previous challenges, we had over 50 people link up with something they had made from Pinterest 🙂
http://mylovebumps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/pinterest-challenge-linky-is-open.html
Anna Marie - Every year we go to a friends house out in the country. They have a big white farmhouse, a swimming pool and lots of room to shoot off tons of fireworks. Everyone brings food and it is always a meal that I look forward to.
Katy @ Live Laugh Love Craft - I have a whole slew of 4th of July pins on my board.. http://pinterest.com/Katy826/4th-of-july/
Will I get to any of them? Maybe. Maybe not..
I will probably make 1 treat, 1 (simple) item for each of my girls to wear, and 1 decoration. That seems doable!
Laura - do the cake
or the jars
we host the 4th
come to think of it…since moving back east, we host everything…
maybe I will come to you 🙂
Mindy Harris - i was mystified by all of pinterest’s 4th july stuff last night, too! swoon.
maybe cake in a jar?
laura b - Love all the images, but like you, I will not be doing any crafting for the 4th. Not enough hours in the day! Even sadder, I think all my kids are ditching me this year. How is it possible to have 4 kids and they all want to visit friends. I hate them growing up!
happygirl - Isn’t Pintrest GREAT. I love all the ideas I find there.
Suzanne - I love the 4th, but I never do anything to decorate. I love the big wooden flag – that is going to go on my list to make. We are hopefully heading into DC for the big 4th of July concert and fireworks, since it will be our last here. Can’t wait to see what you make!
Kelly - We LOVE the 4th of July! It’s my oldest boy’s birthday so we go big! This year he’s turning 10 & we’re celebrating with an Avengers party. That’ll be easy to incorporate with the 4th. Last year he had a Harry Potter party and that was a little difficult to pull off…although it was one of my favorite parties yet!
jessica kiehn - i LOVE the fourth of july!!
when are you going to announce the Take Heart Blog Design giveaway winner? Did I miss it?
Sharla - I have the windsock pinned – if we weren’t moving, I would totally have the kids make those. So cute! Next year . . . .
Jen Brandt - If we’re allowed to vote, I vote for the wooden American flag. My girls and I are in the local parade and then it’s off to a pool party at our friend’s house!
Southern Gal - It’s my daughter’s favorite summer activity…planning an Independence Day celebration complete with a soundtrack to go along with it. Only this year she’s due with her second daughter any minute so most of the planning will be on my end. I have been pinning to my Patriotic Soul board for months. In fact, I just pinned the skirt tutorial a few minutes ago from my Sew Can She newsletter! Let’s see how much I can get done.