Thankful crafting

For Thanksgiving decor this year, I wanted to keep it simple but also incorporate some of the stuff I learned while planning the wedding.

A few of the lessons:

1. Mason jars make flowers look rustic and adorable. Always.

2. Why buy it when you can make it?

3. Candles, candles, candles.

Hot Pants and I are not particularly fancy folks, but we like a pretty table, and I love a chance to drag out my boxes of crafty things. Plus, we were having friends over for Thanksgiving dinner. Thanks to Martha Stewart, some of my favorite craft blogs and a little ingenuity, I think it turned out pretty well.

I dragged out an old book I have deconstructed 12 different ways and tore out a few pages. I revived the typewriter stamps I bought at the Newseum in D.C. and used abundantly for our wedding and went to work. I also made use of the tree stamp we applied to the envelopes of our wedding invitations. Add in some twine, some clothes pins an voila! Awesomeness.




Then, I stole an idea from my gal pal, Martha Stewart, and turned some beautiful green pears into place cards with a little card stock, the typewriter stamps and white ribbon I had bought to help make my veil. Martha had suggested handwriting the names, but I wanted to give the decor some consistency.



Lastly, I went to work on some unsuspecting squash and made six fantastic votive candle holders (that rotted three days later in a gooey mess, but whatever).



Ta da!

Those crazy kids in Knoxville

My lovely friend, The Modern Gal, made a bet with her boyfriend involving snow, nudity and a 21-yard punt. Guess what? It snowed in Knoxville this weekend.

Check out the video of the results over at the MG's blog here.

Yeeeeeeee haaaaa!

Thankful No. 4 and 5

I was so busy yesterday cooking and decorating that I didn't get around to posting about thankfulness. I am thankful for all of the people who came to my house yesterday -- whether to eat or just say hello. They are my Atlanta family, and I love all of them a lot.

Now, today's thankful post comes from the Tubes of You:

Thankful No. 3

Today's thankful post comes to you from The Big Guy himself, Buddha:

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."

Thankful No. 2

Brought to you from the Thankful Bapstist Church on College Avenue in Atlanta...

I'm thankful for 33,000 words

Hello, world!

My bestie over at Patches & Paws has issued a challenge to write about something you're thankful for each day this week. I've been wrapped up in NaNoWriMo all month, so I'm afraid the bloggety blog has been suffering a bit. So, I will start my week by saying I'm thankful for the 33,000 words I've written so far for this crazy project. I'm still behind where I should be with just seven days to go, but the end is is sight. Fifty-thousand words is in my grasp! Back to the novel.

Happy Halloween! (also, don't call me for a month)

Boo!

Scared you, didn't I? Tee hee.

OK, so it's Halloween, the night where I dress up like Frida Kahlo, ditch Hot Pants (who is sick) and go to a party. At midnight, instead of turning into a pumpkin, I will transform into a literary genius with my first attempt at NaNoWriMo. (Now, that's scary.)

So, if I don't pick up the phone for the next 30 days, don't hate. Just know that I will let you share in my millions when my clever, pithy novel becomes the top-selling book of all time.