So much to be Thankful For - Thanksgiving Tablescape

 What a wonderful thing to look at all you have to be Thankful for!  No matter all the negative things going on in this world today, I have so much that I am grateful and blessed to be graced with. 

We are celebrating Thanksgiving with our group of talented women and ourTablescaping Blog Hop today. Much thanks goes out to our leader, Rita from Panoply.

There will be links to all of the participating table stylist's blogs at the bottom of my post.  This will give you the inspiration to get your turkey day a gobbling!

Oh, So Thankful - Thanksgiving Tablescape

 I am Oh, So Thankful!  Welcome to my Thanksgiving Table!

I am here today, joining my talented tablescaping group lead by Rita from Panoply, for a wonderful Thanksgiving Table Hop

The links to all of the other table stylists will be at the end of my post so that you can get your fill of Thanksgiving inspiration.  Please give these ladies some love because this takes an enormous amount of time and effort to share all these tables with you!

Give Thanks - Thanksgiving Tablescape Blog Hop

Thanksgiving is fast approaching!  No matter how you celebrate - big or small - it is a time to reflect and be grateful for all that we have and all the good we have experienced. I like to include some small reminder of what this holiday is all about.

I am joining my gaggle of tablescapers to share our Thanksgiving tables.  The very gracious Rita from Panoply has gathered us together to serve up some inspiration!  

Thanksgiving Table 2021 -a bit Boho

 Welcome to my casual Thanksgiving table that has taken on a bit of a black and white boho vibe this year.

I am joining 21 other table stylists today, bringing you our best Thanksgiving table decor.  Rita from Panopoly has gathered all of us together for this wonderful hop!!  We are thankful for Rita and her great organizational skills - she does such a fabulous job as our ring leader!  All the links for the other bloggers will be at the bottom of my post.

We will actually be spending our Thanksgiving at my son and daughter-in-law's house this year so I won't be setting a big fancy Thanksgiving Table.  So I wanted to set a casual table that we could enjoy a little Friendsgiving one evening!

It is the smallest things that sometimes inspire a whole theme!   I have always loved mixing and matching patterns so I fell in love with this little dip tray set with the different tile patterns on the little bowls while I was shopping with a gift card in one of my favorite shops.  They also had a cracker tray to match that  came home with me as well.

I went with lots of wood and naturals for the decor to keep this casual and relaxed.

My little pilgrim girl was a Marshall's find - she was dressed for the occasion to be featured as my centerpiece.  

A simple white and black plate stack with the salad plate wording - Gather, Blessed, Thankful, and Grateful - expresses the perfect Thanksgiving sentiments.

In each bowl I placed a small carton box favor that I made and stamped with a Thanksgiving sentiment from the Stampin' Up! Pretty Pumpkins Stamp Set.  I tied up the carton with some raffia - because you just can't do Thanksgiving without a little raffia somewhere!  

As promised - here are the links to all of the other talented bloggers that are eager to share their beautiful Thanksgiving tables with you:

Debbee's Buzz - Liberty Blue Thanksgiving Table with Turkey Napkins

My Hubbard Home - Thanksgiving Table With Brown and White Traditional Colors

Everyday Living - We Gather Together

Home is Where the Boat Is - The Softer Side of Thanksgiving

Panoply - Thankful

Tablescapes at Table Twenty-One - Home for the Thanksgiving Holiday 2021

Pandora's Box - Leopards and Checks

Hyacinths for the Soul -A Place at the Table - A Harvest of Idea

lCelebrate and Decorate - Set a Heartwarming Thanksgiving Table with Neutral Colors and Natural Elements

My Thrift Store Addiction - Vintage Thanksgiving Breakfast Table

The Little Yellow Corner Store - Celebrating Thanksgiving a Little Differently

Me and My Captain - Football AND Thanksgiving

Life and Linda - Thanksgiving with Elegance

Sweet Sensations - Dining with the Gents for Thanksgiving

The Painted Apron - Pumpkins and Pickups

Corner of Plaid and Paisley - Thanksgiving 2021 - A Bit Boho - YOU ARE HERE!

Living With Thanksgiving - Blessings at Thanksgiving

Belle Bleu Interiors - A Heart Full of Thanksgiving

Bluesky at Home - 9 Steps to Set a Thanksgiving Table

Dinner at Eight - A Seasonal Table for Thanksgiving

The Bookish Dilettante - We Gather Together

Zucchini Sisters - Vintage Thanksgiving Table Setting

I am thankful for my Tablescaping friends!!  I never knew when I started this that I would ever find so many ladies who share this passion of setting a fun or beautiful table!!

Sources:

Hyacinth leaf placemats - Hobby Lobby

White plates - Pier 1 years ago

Black Plate - Ikea several years ago

White Salad plate with words - Hobby Lobby when they first put their Fall stuff out

Black and White Plaid bowls - Hobby Lobby about a month ago

Favor Boxes - handmade with Stampin' Up! supplies and stamp

Stemware - Marshalls or TJ Max about 10 years ago now!!

Flatware - World Market 5 or 6 years ago

Napkins - Hobby Lobby

Dip set with Black Board base and Cracker Board - The Peddler in Walnut Creek, Ohio

Salt & Pepper shakers - Sheiyah Market in Berlin, Ohio

Pilgrim - Marshalls

I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Tablescape, Gather Together

I truly have a lot to be thankful for as we come upon this Thanksgiving holiday.

I am joining a wonderful group of table stylist for a Thanksgiving Tablescape Hop this week.  Chloe Crabtree, from Celebrate & Decorate, has gathered 24 talented women together to show off our versions of a Thanksgiving Table.  I hope you enjoy taking a peek at all the tables, the links will be at the end of my post and will be updated throughout the week.

We will not be having our family Thanksgiving feast at our house,

That is one thing I am thankful for!!!  I don't have to do all of the cooking and cleaning!

We will be celebrating at my sister's house.  

So I just set a small table for us to enjoy.

This is a bit of a departure from my usual pattern ridden tables.  I opted for something a bit simpler for Thanksgiving.

But did you notice - I still managed to get just a tiny

 bit of plaid in on this one?

I had a hard time with the lighting on this table - it wasn't the brightest day outside, plus now the daylight hours are so short. But on the flip side - Hallmark movies are in full swing!

I am addicted to them - yes, I play the Hallmark fantasy game!!   Everyone else in my family is talking football.  I enjoy my fantasy Hallmark league much better than my fantasy football team.

As promised - here are the links to all of the other bloggers participating in the hop this week.

Monday

Red Cottage Chronicles | Panoply | My Thrift Store Addiction | The Little Yellow Corner Store  | A casa di Bianca

Tuesday

Life and Linda | Home is Where the Boat Is | Corner of Plaid and Paisley | Everyday Living
Calypso in the Country

Wednesday

Katherine's Corner | The Painted Apron | Intelligent Domestications | Celebrate and Decorate | Bluesky at Home

Thursday

White Arrows Home | Create With Cynthia | Gwen Moss Blog

Friday

Debbee's Buzz | The Sweet Sensations | My Family Thyme | Zucchini Sisters 

Follow the Yellow Brick Home  | Our Crafty Mom

I hope you get a chance to check them all out!

I look forward to gathering with my family to celebrate all of the years blessings this Thanksgiving.

Sources:

Placemats and Wheat Plates - Pier 1,  two weeks ago

Chargers - Michaels a couple weeks ago

Round Wood serving pieces - Target two weeks ago

 Napkins - on clearance last year after Christmas at Dutch Valley Barn in Sugar Creek 

Flatware - Ikea several years ago

Stemware - Marshals - many years ago

Ribbon, check paper and stamp - Stampin' Up! 

and yep- that is real bread!!

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Holiday Catalog Sneak Peak - Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop

Welcome to my first time hopping with the Stampin Dreams  Blog Hop!!
I am Ann Krucek from the United States of America. 

I am happy to join this international group of creative stampers! This month we are doing a Holiday Catalog Sneak Peak.  So you should be inspired by lots of creativity with the new products.

 I chose to focus on fall with this post.  I used the Come to Gather Designer Series Paper in both of these cards.

The first card is actually using a die set that is featured in the Toile Tidings Suite, called All-Around Wreath Dies. I used lots of layering with card stock, foil paper and just a hint of DSP.  

I also added some more texture by using the Braided Linen Trim tucked in with the leaves.  The sentiment is from the Gather Together Stamp Set.

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The second card I did was again using the Come Gather Together DSP.  But this time I used the Gather Together Stamp Set and the Gathered Leaves Dies.  

 I inked up my dies when I ran them through to cut them.  So I used Pretty Peacock paper and used a sponge to put white ink on my leaf die,  then did the opposite - I used Whisper White paper and used a sponge to put Pretty Peacock ink on my leaf die.  I love the effect it gives the leaves.

I stamped the pumpkins with Soft Sued on to the wood look paper and used the Braided Linen Trim again for some pumpkin vines.  I wrapped the trim around a narrow paint brush and put a very very light coat of glue on the outer side and let it sit and dry for a long time.  Don't put too much glue on or it will stick to your paint brush!!

Please be sure to check out all of the blogs on our hop today!  Here is the list of those participating:

Thanksgiving Table

I have set a very masculine Thanksgiving table this year.

I had always felt that Thanksgiving was a holiday more for the men in our family than the women. That is why I chose these grey and wood tones for my table.

I am joining a wonderful group of bloggers for a Thanksgiving Tablescape  Blog Hop going on all week. All the links for 20 different Thanksgiving Tables for inspiration are near the bottom of this post.  Thank you to Chloe Crabtree from Celebrate & Decorate for putting this Hop together. 

When I was growing up, it was always the women running around doing all the workand the men where in the other room watching football until all the food is ready.  Then they ate and drank and return to the other room to watch more football, and the women were to clean up all the dishes.

I won't be hosting our actual Thanksgiving dinner, we will be going to my sister's house for dinner.  But I like that my boys lend a hand in setting the table and serving the food these days.

We enjoy much more conversation around the table now then when I was growing up. And I am proud to say that all the husbands and sons now pitch in to clean up all the dishes. I think that this is more of how we should be giving thanks- by working together and enjoying each other's company!

Speaking of enjoying others-

Here are the links to all those participating in the Hop:

Monday

Knock it Off Kim
Home is Where the Boat Is
Everyday Living
Living With Thanksgiving

Tuesday

Panoply
Corner of Plaid and Paisley
Red Cottage Chronicles
Home and Gardening with Liz

Wednesday

Me and My Captain
Bluesky at Home
Life and Linda
Our Crafty Mom

Thursday

The Painted Apron

Debbie's Buzz

Loveland Lodge

Celebrate & Decorate

Friday

The Painted Hinge

Sweet Sensations

Zucchini Sisters

a casa di Bianca

Follow the Yellow Brick Home

I like the changes that have taken place, Thanksgiving seems much more enjoyable now.

I have a lot to be thankful for and feel very blessed to have a wonderful family

and many great friends.

Oh! and many, many dishes!

Sources:

Placemats - Country Gatherings - Walnut Creek, Ohio

Flatware - Ikea

Brown Chargers - Walmart - years ago

White Charger plates - Old Time Pottery - years ago

Grey Sorrento Dinner Plates - Butterchurn Kitchenwares, Walnut Creek, Ohio

Darker Grey salad plates - HomeGoods years ago

Napkins - HomeGoods several months ago

Cement pumpkins - Hobby Lobby - (I colored the stems-they were gold)

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I am sharing my post at the following parties:
Tablescape Thursday @ Between Naps on the Porch
Celebrate Your Story @ Celebrate & Decorate

A Thanksgiving Cornucopia

This cornucopia table came about as I was as was trying to decide which one of my little pumpkins was stinking up the joint!

Yep!  Those cute little white and orange pumpkins are oh so darling, until they start to go bad!

I came down stairs this morning to a slightly raunchy smell.  Now I don't have the best nose for smelling.  It has to do with mixing some bleach with my cloth diapers when the kids were little- I created a mushroom cloud over my washing machine and breathed it in. (Never realizing that there was that much ammonia in urine!  I must also mention that the washing machine was built the year my husband and I were born - and it did not have a separate rinse cycle!)   When I breathed in this chemical reaction, it burnt all down my nasal passage ways - and ever since then my sense of smell is a little off.  I just wanted whiter diapers!!

Back to this morning and me actually smelling something bad - I had smelled this before, I knew the smell -  It reminds me of driving past a land fill and it was in my kitchen!

I found the not so cute little pumpkin with the rotten spot and quickly tossed him, then went through all the rest to make sure there were not more.

So I decided to do one last table using them before they all went bad and this is what I came up with!

 This twig cornucopia has been hanging around in my fall decor box for years, so I thought I would put it and all the "harvest" goodies I had in my house together for a centerpiece.

 These pottery bowls spoke to me about 6 months ago while I was at a Marshalls, but they finally made their debut today.

The cream colored leaf border dishes was one of the first big splurges I made when I started my blog.

I used them in my Thanksgiving post in 2013.

I didn't realize until just now, that I used the same chargers as well.

As we come up on Thanksgiving, I am hoping you all have plenty of food and thankful thoughts

to fill your cornucopia!

I am thankful for all of you who stop by and visit!  It means a lot to me!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Ann

Sources

Placemats, blue pottery bowls - Marshalls

Brown Chargers - Walmart several years ago

Cream Sorrento plate - Butterchurn Kitchenwares in Walnut Creek

Orange scalloped plate - Target - several years ago

Cream Leaf Salad Plate - Tii Collections Dol Harvest Leaves - Butterchurn Kitchenwares years ago

Flatware - Ikea

Wood Cutting Board - Pottery Barn Outlet last year

I am linking up to:

Tablescape Thursday @ Between Naps on the Porch

Dishing it & Digging It @ Rustic & Refined

Thanksgiving Blessings - Blog Hop

Welcome to my Thanksgiving Blessings tablescape.

  I am happy to be joining up with many wonderful bloggers to give you our takes on Thanksgiving table decor for the upcoming season.  Chloe Crabtree from Celebrate & Decorate has assembled a fantastic Thanksgiving Blog Hop for all to enjoy, so please indulge in the links at the end of my post for more inspiration!

Grey and orange is the color palette of my table as dictated by the paisley tablecloth that started the whole table.  When I saw this tablecloth I didn't think twice about the purchase since plaids and paisleys are my thing.  

I really wanted to put complimenting plaid napkins with this table setting but I never found any that would work, so I settled on the plain grey napkins adorned with the bittersweet napkin rings.  

The pumpkins and squash took center stage, flanked by a pair of pheasant that I had used several years ago.

A little reminder of why we are gathering is at each placesetting.

 I think I am obsessed with this new flatware set that resembles a twig or branch (I have used it in my last three tables!) I thought it went well with the grey rims and branches on the dessert plates.

I am thankful for the many blessings that God has granted me and my family.  We will actually be having our big Thanksgiving dinner at my sister's house with other members of our family, so there will be many more than four place settings at that 

celebration.

 

If you look in the background of this photo - you can see we are still working on our fixer upper house.  The steps are partially painted and we have not put down the runner yet.

  I am thankful for a handy and patient husband! 

Thank you to Chloe Crabtree at Celebrate & Decorate for putting this hop together. Just click on the blogs below and it should take you right to their Thanksgiving tables.  Enjoy!

    Monday

Everyday Living  * Red Cottage Chronicles 

 Home is Where the Boat Is * Celebrate & Decorate

Tuesday

My Kentucky Living *  Savvy Apron 

Rattlebridge Farm *Living with Thanksgiving

Wednesday

Belle Blue Interiors * From My Carolina Home 

 Bluesky at Home * The Painted Apron 

 Corner of Plaid and Paisley (here) 

 The Red Painted Cottage

Thursday

casa di Bianca * Dining Delight * A Sweet Sensations

Our Crafty Mom * Panoply

Friday

My French Twist * Hey Fitzy * B. Lovely Events

Me and My Captain * Life and Linda

Thanks for stopping by,

Ann

I am linking up to the following parties:

Tablescape Thursday  @ Between Naps on the Porch

Full Plate Thursday @ Miz Helen's Country Cottage