Door Decoration

 I enjoy decorating my front door. It makes a home look inviting.

 I went to my favorite site, Pinterest to get a little inspiration. After perusing the site for burlap baskets and flowers, my idea finally  hatched.

This past Sunday I took  a scrap piece of burlap I had left over from a previous project to make a burlap pouch.


I made sure I ironed it first so that I could even things up. I ran staystitching on all sides because burlap will ravel. Above the staystitching I pulled the threads giving it a fringed look.



I sewed the sides then went across the bottom and made a triangle from the side to the bottom at both side seams. 

(I think it's called a dart. Correct me if I'm wrong.)

After ironing the pouch I made a handle from from burlap too.

You can see where I fringed the top.

Placing the flowers is where a tiny challenge came in. The challenge being that I wanted to be able to use the burlap  pouch  for other things if I chose to. I used a piece of scrap cardboard, wrapped and hot glued the stems in newspaper, then glued that to the box.  I took the baby's breath apart to fill in wherever I wanted.    

The book in the upper right hand corner was my first thought
to use as the base for the flowers. Hollowing out the pages was
a chore. The book is an old Reader's Digest novel compilation
I got at the thrift store.

After gluing the flowers onto the cardboard, I folded the cardboard
 envelope style and stapled the sides.

I tucked the cardboard bunch of flowers into the burlap pouch. The cardboard wasn't stable inside so I added a bit of  hot glue on the back of the cardboard and glued it to the back of the pouch.

This is the back of the pouch. The white is where the hot glue
melded to the paper as I was allowing it to dry. That part won't be
seen.  Though glued, I'll still be able to disconnect the cardboard
if I want to reuse the pouch.

To fill out the pouch, I used crumpled newspaper.

I'm not a florist so the way I have them arranged is in no particular order.  Hanging them on the closet door was a dress rehearsal before hanging them outside. I found a purple dragonfly in my stash from another project and penned him to the outside of the pouch.

Here is the finished product. I'm pleased. For a closer look refer to the picture at the beginning of the post. (If you look even closer you'll see a reflection of me snapping the picture.) 😀

That's it***