Word on the Sphere: November 9
This week, we found wonderful decorating ideas and easy do-it-yourself creations for Thanksgiving:
The Smarter Home & Garden Blog gobbles up these leaf napkin rings which help set the festive Thanksgiving mood. These are versatile and can help set your table throughout the fall.
About.com: Landscaping revels over outdoor Thanksgiving decorations to replace the Halloween ones you’re taking down. While you may be on a tighter budget this holiday season, try to get in the fall spirit and make your own lovely wreaths with Indian corn and dried ornamental gourds. These natural touches give your outdoor Thanksgiving decorations a harvest theme that is so appropriate this time of year.
Now you don’t have to eat your vegetables, you can decorate with them. The Decorating Diva ogles the Better Homes and Gardens Thanksgiving Veggie Centerpiece, a floral and gourd decoration that’s easy to make at home. Use an apple corer or knife to carve holes in sturdy vegetables. Place candles of different heights in each vegetable, then light, and “serve”.
Good Housekeeping teaches us how to create do-it-yourself place cards. Among the myriad tasks associated with prepping a big meal, ensuring everyone sits in the right spot at the dinner table can get lost in the holiday shuffle. Plot out your seating plan with this cornucopia of fast and easy place card ideas. Dress up your dining room and make space on the table for heaping plates of food: Tie ribbon (any width or pattern is fine) around the backs of chairs and hang on folded place cards.
MarthaStewart.com thinks that paper turkey place settings are a “good thing”. Getting these brilliantly feathered friends to the table requires pasting (but no basting) and some cutting and folding. For a gobbling-good centerpiece, set out two or three in the middle of your table. Or let smaller toms do service as place cards.
