Hankie Noodle Dandy

The pool noodle party has arrived hosted by some of my favorite bloggers.  

If I sound excited it's because I am, simply because I'm actually ready.  

Usually I'm scrambling at the last minute for link parties or miss them all together.  

Not this time, no siree.

I'm on top of this party I am.

Literally - I could float around on it.

Now that is using my noodle for it's intended purpose huh? 

However I'm not floating on the crusty rusty dirty pool float I actually used for the project.

This is last summer's noodle, left to shrivel and waste away under the winter snow.

It was actually on it's way to the trash - walked right by me in the arms of my hunk-o-burning love.  "STOP....... I NEED that".  Yeah, I got one of those sideways-your-nuts looks from him.

So as I was inspired by all of the patriotic red white and blue stuff, and then Shannon at Fox Hollow Cottage practically getting inside my head by making a noodle wreath, that blue foam thing wasn't going to the trash!

I had also been pinning some of those fabric wreaths were you tie stuff on and I wanted to give that a whirl.

I can tie. 

I hit a garage sale with a box of red white and blue scarves for .10¢ each.  So lets see here...... I bought 7 of them, that is .70¢ and a free noodle.  A craft success and repurpose at it's best.

First you need a little helper to play with the pile of scarves/hankies.

I taped the two ends of the noodle together with tape.

Then cut and tie.   

Seriously, how flipping simple is that?  I didn't even worry if I cut the lengths of fabric evenly.  It's a rag wreath - emphasis on RAG.  

It needed a little something.

It needed this adorable printable from The Scrap Shoppe blog.  It's perfect and matches our big old sign at the end of the driveway that I have yet to take a photo of.

I printed it out on card stock, hijacked a frame with a wedding photo, and hung it on fishing line with the wreath.  

The hankie noodle dandy wreath is hanging on the mudroom door.  Since we are the land of the free because of the brave my family can proudly see it each time we come in the house.

I did have another idea, have not seen it linked so far, but I'm fresh out of noodles, or maybe in the case of the crusty blue noodle,  I'm out of a fresh noodle.

I'm gonna float the wreath around at the noodle party and I see there are plenty of awesome wreaths and some surprises....... noodle cupcakes?.... get. outta. town!!

 These are the blogs using their noodle, so grab yours and create something.

Fox Hollow Cottage

RefreshRestyle

Mom4Real

Oh and 'ya gotta admit.....
if there was a prize for the best post title,
I win with my take on Yankee Doodle Dandy using hankies and a pool noodle for my Hankie Noodle Dandy

And while I'm at it, gonna link it here too:
Potpourri Friday @ 2805 
Vintage Inspiration Patriotic Party @ Common Ground
All Star Block Party 
Creative Inspirations @ Embracing Change 

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