Set one up on your front porch or maybe hang a few on the back deck.. 5).

I hot glued it.. And it worked great!.…until Kennedy saw it and was all “Oooh!

A door knocker!” and had to go and actually use the darn thing.. OK, so the hot glue didn’t work so well, but at least now I know it.look great when I get around to actually attaching it for real to the door.By that, I mean when Chris does.. For some reason, people seem to think my mud room looks too nice in pictures and sometimes they find it hard to believe that I should really call it a mud room.

Here’s the room for real.With actual mud in it.

Also, you can’t see it, but there are about 4 giant trash bags waiting to go out to the garage sitting on the floor just outside of the frame.

Why am I acting all smug about the fact that my room is a mess again?.Next, you’ll need to grab your iron and iron out your fabric.

When it’s nice and crisp, fold one side in and iron it flat like this:.Fold the other side in and iron it too!

Make sure that your frayed edge ends up landing somewhere in the middle-ish of your strip so that the frayed edge doesn’t stick out when your bow is all done.You could start with a wider strip and fold it in again so everything’s totally hidden, but that’s not really necessary because nothing will be showing once the bow is complete..