Thanksgiving Decor

 Happy Monday, friends!  This past weekend I packed away Halloween and got out a few Thanksgiving touches.  Fall colors are my FAVE and so I can't pass up an opportunity to have them out!

Thanksgiving Decor

Happy Monday, friends!!!  This weekend I packed up all of the Halloween decor and added a few Fall/Thanksgiving touches.  Nothing major but just some festive pieces to hold us over until Christmas comes out ;) 

Thanksgiving Week Part I - Gaylord and Thanksgiving

Last week was SO MUCH FUN and the reprieve we all needed to get ready to power through the next few weeks of work and school.  We got our house decorated, I was able to get our calendar organized (PRAISE!), we caught up on some rest and we had a ton of fun along the way :)  I feel like there's a ton that I need to get caught up on here on the blog so I'm going to be grouping some things from last week together over the next few days.

Dave was off work on Tuesday so we decided to take advantage of the rare free day with all of us home and we headed to the Gaylord for our annual trip to check out the decorations and eat big cookies :)  

I've been putting them in the sleigh there since the boys were teeny and I can't get over how BIG they all look in the sleigh now!

Thanksgiving Touches

I have no clue what is happening with my comment section today - ugh!!! Hoping I can get it working later tonight.  SO SORRY!!!

As anxious as I am to bring down the trees and stockings I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to the pumpkins yet so I packed up the jack-o-lanterns and freshened things up with a few Thanksgiving touches.

Thanksgiving Decor

I love a Christmas tree and twinkle light as much as the next person BUT I've literally waited 11 months to put out my pumpkins and I'm not ready to say goodbye to them quite yet :)  We packed up Halloween last week and pulled out a few Thanksgiving-ish touches to hold us over until it's time to break out all the Chistmas decor.

A comfy blanket in pretty fall colors and a few touches on the shelves in the living room...

I took Halloween down, put out a few of my normal decor items and added in a cornucopia, the "gobble" sign and a pumpkin. Easy!

I call this pumpkin "the one that started it all";)  When Dave and I were engaged we bought a house and I picked up this little pumpkin at Hobby Lobby - it was my very first holiday decoration to buy!

I put out a patchwork pumpkin (Luke's favorite! hahaha) and my most special Thanksgiving decoration and forgot to fill up the apothecary jars.  OOOPS!

The turkey was a Homegoods find... isn't it so cute?!?!

The garland I had was too short for the mantle (EEEEK!) so I put a couple of pumpkins up there and called it a day :)  Note to self... buy additional garland for next year.

(also wishing now that I had readjusted the wreath after taking down Halloween decor because HELLO lopsided! hahaha)

I made the banner years ago and still love it...

There's not a lot going on in the kitchen...

Some festive napkins and candles and that's pretty much it.

The pumpkin towel is from Anthropologie and I picked up the "Fat pants" towel (which reminded me of the Friends episode where Joey wears the maternity pants) on Zulily (but you can find it on Amazon HERE).

The little tree is where we hang leaves that the kids write down things they're thankful for on.  As you can see I've TOTALLY been on that this year :) hahaha 

There you go!  Y'all know cozy is my jam, so I couldn't pass up a chance to cozy things up and keep the pumpkins out just a little bit longer.  Next up - CHRISTMAS!!!  

Is Christmas up at your house yet?  Do you wait until after Thanksgiving?  My plan is to get it all out next weekend.  What about you?

Happy Wednesday, Friends!!!

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Thanksgiving Holiday Hop

Today I am SUPER excited to be teaming up with some fantastically fabulous bloggers to share a TON of Thanksgiving inspiration and ideas.

I'm going to share a kids craft, but then at the end of my post there will be a list of the other blogs and their topics so you can hop on over and check them out!

I like to craft with things we have on hand, and love doing projects that allow the kids a lot of creative freedom.

I planned out the basic idea (silly turkey hats) and then got out all the supplies, gave them some guidelines and then let them at it :)

I took Chinet paper plates (my favorite to craft with) and cut them in half.  I also cut brown half circles and yellow circles out of construction paper.

Griffin decorated her plate with lots of markers.  The boys weren't home when we did this craft, so I'm excited to see the creative liberties they take with it.

 She picked out feathers and insisted on gluing them on herself and then I glued on the brown half circle, yellow face circle, beak and the gobbler (I know that's not what it's called... but that's how we always refer to the red hangy thing) ;)

Then I cut two strips of paper and stapled them to either side.  I wrapped them around her head to measure and then stapled them together.  We also folded some long strips of orange paper to make the turkey legs.

Before I show you the finished product, here was my inspiration... whenever my parents come over to eat we have a big bucket of silly hats that everyone pulls from and we eat looking crazy :)  I thought it would be really fun to make silly hats for everyone to wear during Thanksgiving dinner next week!

O.M.G.

PS - no one should be surprised that she picked ONLY the pink feathers :)

#girlfriendlovespink

While Griffin was making hers I made my silly turkey hat as well.  I cut out feathers and wrote things that I'm thankful for on them.

  

Checking out each others hats :)

We look ridiculous, but we look ridiculous together which makes it fun. :)  

When the boys got home they LOVED our hats and are itching to make their own.  I'll be sure to grab a picture of them them in theirs as well as my parents in theirs (that the boys are going to make) and the whole family during Thanksgiving.

If you make a crazy turkey hat be sure to send me a picture!   Happy crafting, friends!!!

Now hop on over and check out a whole plethora of Thanksgiving fun!

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Appetizers - Side Dish - Traditions - Thanksgiving Printable

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