~blessings~

Do you decorate for Thanksgiving or do

you skip that and go right from 

Halloween to Christmas? 

I've always dreamed of decorating a beautiful

table for Thanksgiving dinner but I haven't 

as of yet. It doesn't seem realistic once

you get all the food on the table. 

Sure, I've seen TONS of beautiful table settings

but let's see how that looks with a feast on

the table and a bunch of people sitting there too. 

That being said, we are having a very low key 

dinner this Thanksgiving. Just us at home with

our little family and my husband's Grandma.

I think I'm going to take a stab at a pretty 

table dressing this year. I want to keep it 

really simple and toned down and most of all

REALISTIC.

So-on that note, let me share with you

another of my Thanksgiving decorations.

I made this a few years back with some vinyl I

got from an old high school friend at a girls

reunion party we had. The wood it's on is

from my Grandpa's old barn. Although I

love the way it looks I don't recommend 

using barn wood on vinyl projects unless you

are prepared to spend lots of time trying to 

get it to stick! This was a bugger.....

After I got the vinyl attached I embellished

it with a bit of fall foliage that I got at Michaels. 

It's one of my favorite Thanksgiving decorations.

To me it symbolizes the two things I am most

grateful for in this world.....

Family AND Friends.

The wood is representative of my 

Grandparents, the legacy they created

and the love my family has always offered me.

The vinyl is representative of my friends

and the joy and support they have

always been in my life. 

Some of you are familiar with the saying on it..

it's from a church hymn. Just saying it out loud

makes me laugh and smile. It takes me back

to a church pew, sitting with the Dana girls,

holding back laughter as we are listening

to the lady in front of us belting this out

in her best opera voice.

I can hear it now.....

"Count your many blessings. Name them one by one."

....and I am laughing again!

If you thought this was going to end on 

a reverent note, you were wrong.