Burlap Santa Claus Bag

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me a burlap Santa Claus Bag.  Hey everyone I am back with my last day of my 12 Days of Farmhouse Christmas series!  I hope you have enjoyed my Farmhouse Christmas goodness.  This truly has been a labor of love.  The last bit of I would like to share today is my Burlap Santa Claus bag.  This was such a cool item to create!  My kids were even more excited than I was.  You know, I have seen many different types that you can purchase and use for Christmas morning, and this would be perfect for that, but I wanted mine to be used more for decoration.  I am not really sure how I feel about using a bag for each child, especially now that my kids are growing up.  Just not my cup of tea, but if it is for you, absolutely go for it!  I think it is an adorable idea.

Now, I wanted something simple.  Something almost farmhouse primitive.  I purchased my burlap bag at a local farm store for 7 dollars.

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Here are the items I used for this project:

Burlap Sack
Black Craft Paint
Alphabet Stencil ( I used 3 different stencil alphabet styles. You can find so many styles to make it yours)
Stencils

I started with a plain burlap sack.  I actually bought this one for the potatoes I harvested out of my garden, now they have a new home.

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I wanted more of a fun advertisement for Santa Claus, so I stenciled S. Claus at the top.

I read somewhere that they called Santa the “dealer in good things”.  I loved this simple statement and decided to add it to my bag.

The last thing I stenciled was “coming….December 25”

For all these I just eyeballed where it would go.  A burlap bag has a lot of forgiveness.  Plus, I’m really, really good:)

I honestly made this from start to finish in about 30 minutes.  It was funny, I kind of sat there, wondering what else I should do !  i was trying to convince myself that I needed to do something more.  I have decided I did not need to.

I have always loved the idea of a Santa Claus bag and now I finally have one!  Maybe I will sneak a few presents in the bag and surprise my kids.  Maybe I will just leave it where it is at, stuffed with pillows to give the appearance of a bag full of gifts!  There is my little secret.

Doing this series has been so fun for me.  However, I have one little problem.  I have gotten myself so excited for Christmas doing these fun projects and now I have to wait for another month!  Wha??  Well, who said I was done anyways.  I have so much more coming the next few weeks. I truly hope that you will check back and see what I am up to!

Have a great day!