Blue, white and red pom poms

If you read my blog on a regular basis there is a few, ok lets be honest, quite a few things that I am obsessed with. Anything French is at the moment at the top of the list.  Mostly because we are only a day away from the Tour de France but also because let's face it, France is pretty fantastic! So it is perfect that blue, white and red are the colors of France and the US. So I can make John happy on the 4th, since it is his favorite day. I compromise by not putting out the French flag on the 4th. I'm a giver....

So after seeing the Martha Stewart pom pom kits at Michael's I decided I needed to make them in Blue and Red to go with my Martha white ones. A quick trip to the party store I found packages of solid red and royal blue tissue, 10 sheets for 99 cents. So I took one of the Martha ones out of the package and measured and counted the amount of sheets and size of the pom poms and created them in blue and red. But wouldn't you know it, after I finished, I looked at MarthaStewart.com and low and behold there are directions to make the pom poms there.... Oh well, they turned out great and work for both the 4th and Bastille Day.

I put little white hooks in the ceiling years ago that I use to hang all sorts of holiday cheer throughout the year, they work perfect for my pom poms. And this project only cost a total of $1.98 to make and about 5 minutes to make! That is a great craft!

Some more projects around the house in honor of the big holidays (the 4th & the Tour)... A old French antique planter filled with blue, white and red flowers and looks just like a French flag:
 

and then I also made some little French flags that I turned into a garland for the French ornament branch and also for some gift tags for some French treats. That was the easiest project yet, I used a sheet of 12x12 textured paper in Blue, White and Red. I cut the red in 3 inch strips, the white in 2 inch and the blue in 1 inch, layer on top of each other and ooh la la, there is a French flag. Here are some step by step pictures:

    

 

I just love that little pile of Frenchness.....

Comments

[LisaSoares]

Just wanted to tell you that I love your pom poms! I've been wanting to make them since seeing them on Martha's birthday show. I found a kit for making them at BIG LOTS for $2, so I just picked it up the other day. I didn't realize she had instructions on her website, but I will check that out because it would be fun to try different colours too. Maybe even black, white and/or orange for Halloween (one of my favourite decorating holidays!)...BTW..I just picked up Martha's new Halloween issue at Barnes and Noble. Lots of fun stuff!