All posts filed under: decorating

Setting the Thanksgiving Table

Whoops!  I blinked and it’s already November!  How in the world did that happen?  Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I’m not ready yet!  Being somewhat housebound since my surgery, I hadn’t had a chance to look for Thanksgiving and Harvest decorations until late October.  Now, I don’t understand what happens around here, but it seems that unless you get your harvest decorations in August, all you’ll find in October are few picked-over knick knacks and an explosion of Christmas!  I don’t know about you, but I really like Thanksgiving decorations and I’m not quite ready to be thrust headlong into Christmas yet! Since the offerings at the store were slim-pickings, I decided to do something a little different this year and settled on a simple, white and green Thanksgiving table.  I found two preserved boxwood topiaries at Homegoods and paired them with small white pumpkins (I love those) and white pumpkins with green and orange stripes.  I set them on top of a beige table runner and placed some candlesticks and jars with …