Thanksgiving Day

Our 22 pound turkey looked and tasted wonderful. I need to roast turkey more often.

I used the same tablecloth, napkins, plates and place cards, etc. as last year. Although, I did have to make six extra place cards.

I bought a Groupon from a company to print photo books. Going to make a six inch by eight inch book of our Thanksgiving. Will include recipes on a few of the photographs. Amie got me started with Photoshop instructions. I keep a cheat sheet & hopefully I can figure it out.

We had pumpkin pie, apple crisp and raspberry pie squares for dessert. I eat pumpkin pie once a year. Like turkey, I should make pumpkin pie more often.

We had a wonderful meal and day, except for the part about the Dallas Cowboy's winning.

Wordless Wednesday

Blog Anniversary

Today is the start of my fifth year of blogging.
I.Can.Not.Believe.It.
This will be my 910th post.
I.Can.Not.Believe.It.
How or why I keep going, I can't even explain.
I've had the blog entries printed into three hard cover books. When 2011 is over I'll have that printed into a book also. (I used the company blog2print.)
Since I can't have a post without a photo, a Salt Shaker Snow Globe.

A large salt shaker, from an antique store, filled with white glitter and a bottle brush tree, also from a antique store.

Next I want to make Mason Jar Snow Globes.

  Above image from Antropologie.

Thanksgiving Day

I have so much to be thankful for, today and everyday.

Wordless Wednesday

Antiquing/Thrifting

Our local thrift store had several boxes of old glass ornaments. Since I have lots several already being

stored in the basement, decided to only buy this one box, mainly because of the red ornament with the gold crown.  

 This shoe gadget, used by cobblers, was bought at the local antique shop.

 My "O'de to Michelle Obama."

 I wore the pin to work today and received a complement. All the pins Michelle wears costs in the hundreds of dollars. Mine was $3.00.

 I thought I remembered a project using a whisk broom that I saw on Pinterest. I was wrong, the project was using a whisk scrub brush. If anyone has ideas on what I can do with this. No, sweeping involved thou.

 A white feather wreath, it's beautiful and all the rage now. We bought it for 50 cents. I'm letting Amie have the wreath.

Please believe me, this is the first I've purchsed anything while antiquing & thrifting in several months. I've been concentrating on cleaning out. We showed up at the thrift store with a donation bag. Thankfully, more left the house than what was brought back in.  

Butternut Squash

Mick bought at a grocery store butternut squash, grown at a local farm, for 29 cents a pound.

 I wish I would have had him buy more than five.

I've already cooked the squash and sealed in bags for the freezer.

Have you figured out that our Thanksgiving menu includes Butternut Squash?