Pumpkins and Pilgrims

I can not believe that Thanksgiving is two weeks away.  Actually, less than two weeks.  Unbelievable.

I think Thanksgiving decor is the easiest for me to put out.  It really requires very little effort because it's all pumpkins and pilgrims.  I just toss pumpkins and pilgrims everywhere.  By the way, my camera skills leave much to be desired.  What the heck?  Perhaps I should take a photography course or something because these pictures lack...light or focus...or something.   Right?   Well anyway, take a look at Thanksgiving in the Paw Prints household:

I took the "fall" banner that I made for the entrance way a few months ago and moved it to my fake mantle wall:

p.s.  the candles were only lit for the picture; I'm aware of the HUGE fire hazard I just created

I added Thanksgiving subway artwork to the frame in the hallway:

Here's a picture of my great neice.  She is the cutest little girl in the world!  This has nothing to do with Thanksgiving decor but I thought I would toss her cute little picture in because I can.  :)

 My pictures are out of order but I'm sure nobody cares.   These are the yarn wrapped candles:

More pumpkins:

Pilgrims and pumpkins:

Naboo, aka BooBoo Kitty, helping me take photos.....

This is a blurry picture of the sign I hung in entrance which is one of my favorite signs.  It reads:  With Grace Surround Us.  I really keep this out year round, I just move it around.

See what I mean?  More pumpkins:

I added some Thanksgiving subway art to the shelf in the kitchen too:

Pumpkins in the hallway:

Pilgrims in the living room:

Oh...what's that you say?  Balloons that Sweetheart gave me for my birthday.  Gift cards were attached to the balloons.  Oh yes, my favorite type of gift!

Pumpkins and such on the table:

Pumpkins, pumpkins and more pumpkins.  All colors and sizes...

Grievous is constantly knocking these over with his big nose when he sniffs them

The entrance way table always gets the holiday makeover.  I'm pretty sure it loves it as much as I do.  I'm just saying.

p.s.  I almost forgot to include the picture with the 2.5 foot Darth Vader that I got at Costco.  Yes, Sweetheart and I were so excited when we saw him, he immediately went into the cart.   No, we are not 12 years old; we just enjoy having a Sith Lord in our living room.

Enjoy your holiday.   I hope it's filled with lots of turkey, football, family and love.

Thanksgiving crafting projects

To say this is a busy time of the year for us is an understatement.  Football, birthdays, holidays, work --  it all has us SO busy. Still, I make time to decorate our home with seasonal decor.  It's fun, it's cozy and at this point, it's become tradition.   When I asked Sweetheart if he thought I should bother with it, he looked surprised and said "you always do it, it's tradition".  So there you have it.  

The day after Halloween, I had Sweetheart pull out my Thanksgiving bins so that I could start putting out the fall/Thanksgiving stuff.  I spent last weekend working on a couple of quick projects and putting out most of the decor. 

One of the projects that I seem to be addicted to these days is wrapping yarn around white candles.  I tried it with the Halloween decor here.   I found the inspiration on Pinterest here.  It was super easy to do and the candles really do look great.  And the best part about it is that I can repurpose candles; I don't have to buy different color candles every time I want a change.   

For my Thanksgiving decor, I used a mustard colored yarn for the candles on the entrance way table:

And I used a burnt orange color for the candles on my pretend mantle:

I think they look great!

My other project was painting these acorns I bought at Target in January.  I found them on a clearance shelf.  I frequest the clearance shelves at the Target by my house and the one by where I work.  I always find the greatest things on clearance!  These acorns were regularly priced at $24.99 and I bought them for $1.99.   They sat in my craft room for nine months -- as most of my clearance items do -- until this past weekend when I was able to pull them out.  

I used a yellow mustard color (that I tend to be very much in love with at the time) and a brown color:

And this is the outcome:

I intended to post pictures of Thanksgiving tonight, however, I have another project in the works that interfered with my picture taking. We are expecting guests over the Christmas holiday so I'm painting the hallways to freshen them up and my painters tape and the ladder happened to make their way into nearly every picture I took! 

Maybe tomorrow......