{"id":31644,"date":"2016-06-29T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=31644"},"modified":"2016-06-29T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T16:53:13","slug":"31644","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=31644","title":{"rendered":"Dressing the Exterior in Red, White, and Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am so excited about this coming holiday week-end.\u00a0 The entire family will be here, and I am beyond happy.\u00a0 As I mentioned in a recent post, July 4th is my second favorite holiday, and if we are in town, we go all out.\u00a0 Last year I missed the big celebration because Jordan and I were bicycling in France<\/a>, and Mr. Right was bicycling<\/a> across Canada.\u00a0 Our son and his wife were in Nebraska, but I’ll have them all here this\u00a0 year.\u00a0 Plus, it is Little Miss’s first big family get-together, and our son Cory and his wife Josie will be celebrating their second wedding<\/a> anniversary.\u00a0 So, there’s a lot to be happy about.\u00a0 We were out of town last week, and we just returned home Monday.\u00a0 I am scrambling to get everything ready so that I can enjoy everyone and all of our activities without being frazzled.\u00a0 The first project that I completed was dressing the exterior in some red, white, and blue.\u00a0 Even though we live in a townhouse, there’s still plenty of space to spiff up.<\/h3>\n

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I purposely planted red and white wave petunias in the planters this year using this method <\/a>so they would match the red, white, and blue flag and banner.<\/h3>\n

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I hung a banner over the transom window.<\/h3>\n

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And of course the flag went in its holder.\u00a0 It’s so nice that this area blends well with the foyer <\/a>that I wrote about yesterday.\u00a0 It’s all ready for “drinks on the stoop” Saturday evening while we wait for Shakespeare in the Park to begin.\u00a0 We will be enjoying “As You Like It” under the stars, and it’s so nice that we can just walk across the street to enjoy this very popular annual event.<\/h3>\n

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We have a bench in the small courtyard entry, and I added some red, white, and blue pillows that I already had.\u00a0 I made the flag pillow last week when visiting my mother.\u00a0 Her craft room resembles a fabric store, and I knew she would have something red, white, and blue stashed away.<\/h3>\n

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It was so simple to make.\u00a0 I wanted a rectangular shaped pillow, so I cut out red and white gingham measuring 14 x 21.\u00a0 Then I cut out a piece of navy blue that looked to be in the right proportion to the gingham.\u00a0 I used a zig-zag stitch to attach the blue.\u00a0 I sewed three sides together and used polyester pillow batting to stuff the pillow.\u00a0 Normally, I use a pre-made down pillow, but since this will only be used a few days, the poly is fine.\u00a0 Then I whip stitched the open side shut.\u00a0 It took about 30 minutes to make the entire pillow from beginning to end.<\/h3>\n

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Have you all gotten your exterior decorated yet? \u00a0\u00a0 Be sure to come back tomorrow.\u00a0 We did a little research into our recipe archives, and Jordan wrote a post highlighting some that will be perfect for your holiday menu.\u00a0 See you then.\u00a0 Thanks so much for stopping in.<\/h3>\n

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Take care.<\/h3>\n

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    I am so excited about this coming holiday week-end.\u00a0 The entire family will be here, and I am beyond happy.\u00a0 As I mentioned in a recent post, July 4th is my second favorite holiday, and if we are in town, we go all out.\u00a0 Last year I missed the big celebration because Jordan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31644"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31681,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644\/revisions\/31681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}