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The Other Half

If you read the previous post, you saw the table where half my guests will be seated for Thanksgiving dinner.  Now let me show you where the other half will have their meal. Because the dining room has a fireplace, I chose the foyer so the rest of my guests could be seated next to a fireplace as well. I used the red toile dishes in this room because they worked well with the rest of the décor. The napkin rings with the orange and red seeds have been previously used for a another Thanksgiving feast with lime green napkins.  This time red worked best with the centerpiece. All the flowers for this arrangement were 80 % off at Michael’s.  I added a few cones made from the yellowed pages of an old book.  The container comes from Hobby Lobby.  It is a wooden box with slated sides and a handle.  Purchased it at for 1/2 the original price.  I lined it with burlap and arranged the flowers in desert floral foam. Look closely and you will see the red water glass blending into the arran

Split Seating

As I mentioned earlier, I am expecting about 20 for Thanksgiving dinner so I am setting one table in the dining room and another in the foyer. Because the dishes on each table are different I focused on the reds and oranges of Fall on one table and the browns and golds on the other one. Let’s take a look in the dining room first. These dishes were the starting point.  To pull in the Autumn colors I picked up some dessert plates at Pier 1.  They were purchased with bonus coupons so that was a guilt free purchase.    There were four designs and I purchased two of each.  Then I found complementary dessert plates at World Market and used them alternately on the table. I found pillar candles at Hobby Lobby in the same golden color as the plates.  They were 50% off in the rush to clear the shelves for Christmas.  Everything else was something I had or could pick up for free…like pinecones. The books were something I had folded for another occasion.  The easels are something I use

Give Thanks

One of the blogs I follow was giving a few holiday decorating tips. I saw something there I liked and decided to give it a try.  I would love to give the proper credit for the actual item as, I do believe, it was for sale.  I have just spend 30 minutes trying to find it again thinking the whole time I knew right where I saw it.  How many times have I thought that and then spent hours searching? Well, the truth is, I copied it and I would love to credit the person who gave me the idea but I’ll have to settle for saying “Thank you” right here.  I don’t suspect that person will ever know I copied it or that I thanked them, but now my conscience is clear. So, on with it.  It is a simple pennant banner. I cut the pennants from burlap.  Rather than hem them, I used Fray Check. It was a lot quicker and gave the banner a more casual look.  I traced the letters and filled them in with permanent marker.  I turned back the top edge after laying a piece of twine in the fold.  While keeping

What’s on the menu?

You may remember I recently posted this menu board as one of my resale shop finds. Well, with Thanksgiving on the horizon, I started giving some thought as to how to use it for the occasion.  I know the entire menu won’t fit here even if I write small.  In fact, I don’t think I can fit the dessert menu here. (We like our desserts and we especially like a variety.)  I know one of them is going to be pumpkin cheesecake and that’s two lines right there. So I decided to go for a drawing of a turkey instead.  Now, I’m not a freehand, whip-it-out in two seconds drawer.  In fact, I’m more of a tracer. First I needed a picture.  My inclination is to search through coloring books or newspaper ads.  I’m giving my age away here.  Thank goodness for suggestions from the younger generation.  My daughter typed in google.com on her laptop.   Hit images and searched for cartoon turkey.  A few seconds later I had my drawing. I stapled a piece of newspaper to the back and rubbed chalk on the new