Blushing Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving for those who live in the 

United States.  We always travel for Thanksgiving 

but I like set a fun table as part of my decor.

This year I purchased a few new pumpkins in 

pink tones, and loved decorating with them.

My iconic turkey bowls were purchased over 

20 years ago, and I remember thinking I needed 

16 of them - for as my family grew!  Now we 

are at 26, so that number was overshot a long time 

ago, but we still love using them.

I set the table in the formal dining room 

with my heavy whitewashed oak table.

Master Tom is the focal point,

and I layered the stack with silver and pink.

I use these napkins a lot, as I have enough for our 

whole family and they are elegant yet go with 

just about everything.

My mother's pink goblets are lovely with the table.

When I do a really elegant table, I love 

using this fancy silverplate.  I got these 

years ago on a sale from Horchow. 

Many of you have asked for them, but 

they were being discontinued - sigh!

The pumpkins in pink are clustered on a tray, and 

flanked by some glittery silver pumpkins.

Most of the pumpkins were treasures found 

at Home Goods.  I just love the curl of 

the handle on this one.

This one is pale pink with glitter and rhinestones.

All of the turkeys are lined up in a row for 

pumpkin soup, or even a salad. 

I am not a fan of turkey, and it has been nice 

hearing from some of my relatives that they 

don't love turkey either - must be in our 

tastebuds - but there are always the wonderful 

carbs to enjoy - I love the mashed potatoes, 

stuffing and homemade rolls!  

I hope you can gather with family and celebrate 

all there is to be thankful for at this time of year.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I will be posting this with 

Tablescapes Thursday

and

Love Your Creativity

Fall Elves for Thanksgiving

The elves have invaded the house to

begin preparations for Thanksgiving

and fall.

I just love my fall elves and am so

glad that they want to come back 

each year for fall.

They have just hopped right onto the

dining room table to participate in

decorating the table for Thanksgiving.

I love having tables set throughout the

various holidays as part of the decor.

It just makes the house festive, no matter

what holiday is coming up.

This table was also inspired by these

new burlap placemats from Home Goods this

year.  I love their rustic yet elegant appeal.

They work perfectly with the rustic, yet

elegant table and the gold flatware.

The table is set with gold and and white.

These gold rimmed china plates are 

ones I bought years and years ago and

are my only real china plates.  I still love

their elegant rims.

I stacked them with gold beaded salad

plates and gold and white chevron snack plates.

Extra Thanksgiving plates are added

to the sides of the setting.

Rather than use gold rimmed goblets,

I decided to use my bubble goblets

to go with the rustic quality.

Whitewashed candlesticks are topped with

pumpkin candles and gold candles.

More fun pumpkins and pumpkin candles

add to the center of the table.

This is one of my favorite pumpkins.  I love

the stem and the details on the top with

the soft orange mercury color.

We have so, so much to be thankful for.

The family is coming this Sunday for 

a Thanksgiving Dinner as we usually go

down south for Thanksgiving Day and

not everyone can come.  

Food assignments have been made and we

will get the holidays started this Sunday.  

Can't Wait!!!

Thanks for stopping by.  It is always so busy from

the beginning of school to after New Year's - 

it seems to just fly!  I appreciate you taking time

to visit.

I will be posting with

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Gold and Glittery Thanksgiving

Welcome to our craft group's Thanksgiving

dinner hosted at Karen's.  My last post

showed the Vintage Christmas Ornament Tree

we made after dinner.

Karen set the table with a neutral

cloth and topped it with a wrapping

paper runner in gold polka dot.

Wrapping paper makes for a great

table runner.  It comes in such fun

colors and designs.

The table was filled with beautiful gold

toned Thanksgiving decor.

I love how she elevated some of the items on

candlesticks.

Everything was softly lit with candlelight.

A turkey under glass was a clever

idea.  

There were glittered pumpkins

and leaves all over the table.

This one she had painted to match the table.

Each of us had this darling ornament

to take home with us.  I used mine

on my ornament tree as a reminder 

of the night.

Karen had recently redesigned this room to make

it a huge dining room to seat all of her children

and grandchildren, so she sat us at one end and

continued the runner the rest of the way down

in preparation for her family Thanksgiving dinner.

As always, we felt spoiled.

I will be posting this with

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and

Tablescapes Thursday