Grown-Ups' Thanksgiving Table

Yay! Our Kids and Grands will be here tomorrow (Nov. 17th), and I'll hit the ground running. We also have a ton of friends and relatives who live near us, and they'll be in and out the whole week.  I can't wait! I love having a house full of family and friends.

Last post, I showed you the kids' table (click here), and now, I've pulled together a table for the BIG kids. Sometimes, I can't tell if my tablescapes are pulled together, or thrown together. 

I used an old pair of pheasants, (Hubby, the great white hunter, says it supposed to be a brace of pheasants)...anyway, where was I?...Oh, faux hydrangeas, leaves, a few feathers and a couple of pine cones, form the centerpiece...

...echoing the colors from the table runner...

...the candle sticks that I found the other day at TJMaxx, are shorter than I wanted so, I fudged, and...

...stood them on overturned silver bowls.

Some of the place settings have red salad plates on cream dinner plates...

...others have pheasant or quail salad plates with mustard dinner plates. I've been searching for more of these, but haven't found any yet.

I know it looks like a hodge podge, but hey... 

...we're very casual folks, and the pheasants don't seem to mind the mix. So, the table's finished! 

This will probably be my last post until after Thanksgiving, but I'll be by to visit. 

Wishing y'all a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Hugs, Babs

Kids' Thanksgiving Table

Our grands will be here for Thanksgiving, so I've been working on a tablescape for them. I'm using the kitchen table to practice a place setting, since we won't set up the little table till Turkey Day.

I'm using brown craft paper for placemats and crayons for coloring...and I found these cute melamine "Give Thanks" plates at World Market.

Little log cabins, with removable lids, will be used to hold...

  ...snack mix. I lined them with brown paper to hold the snack mix, and added a bit of fiberfill for the smoke.

The snack mix is made with pretzels, gold fish crackers, fruit chewies and a few M&M peanuts...left over from Halloween. :)
Hey, this is just a practice tablescape...I'll get fresh candies later.

The little evergreen trees and cabins, hopefully, are reminders of the setting for the first Thanksgiving.

I also filled a small turkey tureen...

...with additional snack mix. I added some round multi-grain cereal and a few snack crackers to this one.

One tablescape down, and one to go. 
Now, I just have to decide what to do for the adults, so, as always, I'll be visiting y'all for some great inspiration! 
I only have a few days to pull it all together. Once the grands are here, I'll be in flat out "GrandBabs mode".
Hugs,
Babs
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Happy Hallowthanksmas Cactus

My Christmas cactus decided to set buds just before Halloween, and now, it's almost in full bloom, with two weeks left til Thanksgiving.

I put it on the entry chest...next to the bench with my new fabric Thanksgiving pumpkin.

The pumpkin came from an antique/decor store, and I really like how it looks with the bench and pillows...but...

...it's not exactly Thanksgiving colors. I'm not sure it goes with the red Christmas cactus, but I love it anyway...

Getting back to the cactus, maybe I should call it a "holiday cactus"  since it can't decide what holiday it wants to bloom.

Also on the chest, my little spaniels sit on a red tartan book, and a hunt scene picture behind. That works with the red cactus...sort of.

I know, I'm jumping all around, but that's sort of how I feel.  Halloween is over, I haven't finished decorating for Thanksgiving,  and I'm already thinking about Christmas. 
Has the Happy Hallowthanksmas bug bitten y'all yet?..or it's cousin, the Merry Thanksgivoween bug?

 Hopefully, I'll get organized. My family and guests will be here in nine days...so I'd better a move on. 
Oh, and I'm working on a little tablescape for the kids' table for Thanksgiving. 
Hopefully, I'll get that finished today, so I can show you on my next post. :)

Hugs, and have a great weekend,
Babs
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Bargain Fall Wreath

This morning, I headed out to my usual shopping places to look for a few things for Fall and Thanksgiving. 
I stopped at Michael's, and couldn't believe they had their Fall decor  80% off!! Whoo! Hoo! My kind of sale! 
Well, I started rummaging through everything, and saw this metal wreath. The very last one!...and at 80% off, it was going home with me.

 When I hung it on the inside of the door to take a pic, I knew it didn't look quite large enough, so I got out one of my old grapevine wreaths and...

...wired the metal wreath to it with chenille stems...aka "pipe cleaners", for us "vintage" crafters... added a burlap bow from some burlap ribbon I had and...

...my front door is set for Fall/Thanksgiving, and it only took about 10 minutes.
The metal wreath wasn't what I started out looking for, but at that price, and using the grapevine wreath and burlap I already had, I'm lovin' it!
So check out your Michael's and see what they have on sale, and no, I'm not being compensated for saying that. :)
Happy shopping, and thanks a million to Marigene @ In the Middle of Nowhere, for her suggestion of how to transfer photos directly from my camera to my laptop, without using the camera card. Marigene, you're the best!
Hugs,
Babs
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What Shade of Red Is It?

I'm sooo glad Halloween is over. I've taken down the decorations and thought I'd look for something to show you before I start getting out the faux turkeys. I can't believe my son and his family will be here in less than two weeks! Yay! Can't wait to see the Grands.

Anyway, a few months ago, I found this Bordallo Pinheiro beet vase in a flea-tique mall. I wasn't going to buy it, because I didn't think I had anything it would work with.  Hubby actually talked me into getting it.

Because it's so unusual, I couldn't decide what flowers to put in it. Then, I realized we had mums out in the yard that were about the same color.

Believe it or not, last week, I was in TJMaxx...again...and saw this Bordallo platter. Yay...same color!
Looking around the house, I remembered my red transferware...

...and I lucked out, because even the stripes on the napkins are  a dark red.

I've never used this shade of red much, but now, I think I'm beginning to like it more and more...whatever it's called. 
What do you think? Beet? Plum? Bordallo Burgundy? :)

Sorry I haven't been blogging much lately, but my old faithful computer has finally refused to work, so I'm trying to "get the hang" of photo uploading, editing, etc. on my laptop. When I bought my laptop, I didn't realize it didn't have a little slot for my camera card, and I had to buy a thingy to put the card in, and then plug into the usb port. This probably isn't a big deal for most of you, but my computer skills are really basic. :) You can stop laughing  now. :)

Anyway, enough of my whining. My computer "challenge" is a trivial thing when so many people are in desperate situations in the aftermath of Sandy. 
Hugs and prayers for all, and thanks for your prayers for our son and his family, who live near Atlantic City. They were so fortunate that they didn't have any serious damage, or long term power outage.
Babs

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