Happy Thanksgiving!

 

I saw these cute little Turkey pops and knew I would have to make them.  They are pretty simple to make and fast for a last minute favor to make.  You will need a vanilla, I  used peanut butter cookie, some small Nutter Butters, candy corn, and some melted chocolate (white or chocolate) and some black icing or some eyes that are purchased. Pull the cookie apart and put some melted chocolate in the center, stick 5 candy corns and a sucker stick into the chocolate and put the top back onto the other side of the cookie.  Use one small Nutter Butter and attach with chocolate. Then add half of a candy corn for the beak and add some black beady eyes.  Let it harden and you have a Turkey pop.

 

I made these first ones for some ladies I visit teach.  I put them in a jar of M&M's and added a bow.

 

The others I saved for "Pie Night".  We have a tradition in my family where we all get together the Sunday or Saturday before Thanksgiving and we all bring pies.  We have a great time, we get to enjoy the pies, and we get to see everyone, because we all can't get together for Thanksgiving (our family is huge!)  So, I decided to bring the Turkey pops for the kids, they had pie too but they enjoyed the pops!

 

On some of them I did add a little gummy gobbler to the side of the beak, but they look great with out the gobbler too.

 

I added this little card to the jar of Turkey pops and had fun visiting.

Hope  you all have had a great Thanksgiving holiday!

Thanksgiving table

 

I was looking at the Pottery Barn catalog for fall and one of the pictures of a Thanksgiving table inspired me. I have tried to find the inspiration picture but even on their website I can't find it.  So I pretty much made the table as I visioned it in my mind.  The one thing that I remember about it was that it had antlers on the table.  My hubby helped me out on this part because he loves to hunt and I knew I could find a good supply of antlers.

 

I also was putting away my Halloween decorations and came across a couple of boxes of feathers that I had purchased at the end of the season last year.  It just seemed like these feathers say, "Thanksgiving" so I put them in a white pitcher that I had.

 

I used a burlap runner and added some white pumpkins,( they used to be orange, but I spray painted them white and speckled them with a brown paint. I also painted the stem silver.)

 

I went up to the barn and found the perfect antlers and had hubby saw off the ends so they were nice and smooth.  I then scrubbed them with a bleach cleaner and other than that they are just the natural thing.

 

I think he was excited that I had a use for his stash.

 

Added more pumpkins to my shelves.

 

and more white pumpkins to the window ledge.

 

A fall garland to the mantel.  I then added the white lights because I just love the look of sparkly lights.

 

I used a fall wreath around the base of the centerpiece, and added some acorns around the base.

 

The feathers are not real, so I guess if you had real ones you could use those.

 

What do you think of the antlers on the table?

 

It is so easy to lose Thanksgiving between Halloween and Christmas but I am glad that I decided to keep fall around for a few more weeks. I loved how it turned out and the PB inspiration.

It is almost here!

I thought I would show you some of the last minute projects we have been doing for Thanksgiving!

We had a dinner on Monday night with some of my family who will be going to the other side of their families.  We decided to have a pasta night and then we made these darling pumpkins. They are easy peasy to make!

If you want to make one you will need to find some fabric and cut out any size circle that you want, the bigger the circle the bigger the pumpkin.  Then sew a gathering stitch around the edge, if you don't want to sew with the machine you can do a running stitch with a needle and thread. Then gather the fabric all around the edge and before making it tight, fill it with dried beans.  I did find that I needed to finish it with a needle and thread to make it tight.  Then go and find a pumpkin stem from all of those pumpkins you have lying around.  Pop off the stem and I decided to spray paint mine copper.  I then cut out some felt leaves and had some wire wrapped raffia to make the curly ques.

They were fast to make!

I will have to make some more of these next year because I can now see all kinds of possibilities.

For the special pasta dinner I made these cute little turkeys that I had see on KSL studio 5. They are made from those little stretchy gloves! These are super fast as well. Just put the one glove inside of the other and stuff the thumbs inside of each other, (this makes the head).  Then stuff the rest inside to make the body.  Fold the cuffs up inside so there is a flat place to make them stand upright.  Add a little cone beak from felt and I used a sequin and a bead for the eyes.  The gobbler is made from a strip of pinking sheared red felt.

Then tie a piece of ribbon around the fingers to make the feathers!

The stripes turned out cute!

Very Easy Peasy!

I then had found some 60 inch white fabric that I made a table cloth with. I wanted to start the tradition of writing on the cloth each year and everyone will sign it and say what they are thankful for! I can't wait until the cloth is totally full!

I think I will like this tradition!

On last Tuesday we had a fun activity with the Youth in our area and we had them all bring a treat to share. We then made up special plates with all kinds of treats and distributed them with this card on the top and some copies of the card to share with others.  The youth loved it and had fun ringing the doorbell and running so the recipient  would not see who it was that brought the yummy treat!  If you want to do this just click on the picture and save the picture to a place on your computer and then make your own copies.

Hope you all have a very fun Thanksgiving and a very thankful holiday!

My Thanksgiving table

Halloween is so fun to decorate for, but if you decorate for Halloween then you can't leave those decorations up until Thanksgiving. I have usually just decorated for fall and just left everything up until Thanksgiving was over but his year I went all out for Halloween! I sometimes feel bad for the overlook of Thanksgiving because there is just a few weeks before you then put up your Christmas decor. I love the fall and all of the colors associated with it and so I will share with you my Thanksgiving table.

Above the table is my Dining room light and I decided to hang acorns and leaves from it. It was hard to get a good picture of how it looks but I just used some clear thread and tied it to the acorns and leaves and hung them from the light.

I have these two metal pumpkins and decided to do a pumpkin inside of a pumpkin and then decorated with berries, acorns, pumpkins and gourds.

I used the two lanterns I had on my piano and thought they looked great on the sides.

I used a french country print tablecloth which made it stand out more than just the dark table.

I painted some more pumpkins white and speckled them with dark brown and dark red paint. I painted the stems silver. I really like the white pumpkin look!

I added a garland and lights to the mantle.

These are actually two garlands intertwined, I really like the sparkly leaves on the one.

Another view of my light.

Don't overlook this thankful holiday and hope all of you have a very great day full of gratitude!

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