Thanksgiving Feast 2011

So, how was everyone’s Thanksgiving? Was it turkey overload for you?

My sister made a 24lb turkey and my nephew smoked a 16lb bird.

Plus we had a 10lb ham. Can you believe we only had enough leftovers for lunch the next day.

What little was left after that went into a pot of chili.

We did not get to eat outside like we had hoped. The wind was blowing too much to enjoy the dinner. So we went to plan B and stretched the dining room table into the sitting room.

 

And this didn’t hold everyone! We had 7 kids at another table by the kitchen.

I made up these place cards using photoshop elements. Then punched some hole in the ends and wrapped some ribbon around the napkin and out through the holes.

My mom suggested we all use the place cards around our wine glasses so we could keep them all straight. She is so smart! It was a great idea. They even slipped nicely around the beer bottles.

We used some silver creamer and sugar bowls to make the mini arrangement.

I brought some pots of mums and we just clipped the flowers off and stuck them in some oasis.

They came out so cute.

That’s my Halloween pumpkin on the cabinet that I never carved.

So we put it to use to hold another potted mum.

We all had a great time. Lots of food, lots of wine, lots of laughs.

This last shot was taken by my daughter-in-law to be. Yep, #1 son is now engaged!

She is a photographer as well. So they have a lot in common.

The poor thing was bombarded with so many people this past weekend.

It was an introduction to the family like no other.

We're so happy to have her and her 6yr old son join our family.

Oh and I almost forgot.

I will be doing a giveaway this week so be sure to stop back by!

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's been a busy week and it will be even busier the next few days.

So before I leave I want to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.

We are heading out for our family feast.

I'll be sure to take lots of pictures so I can share the madness with you all.

Enjoy the holiday and try not to rush Christmas too much.

It will be here before you know it.

To all those who will be traveling, have a safe trip. 

See you next week :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Using Up That Sweater

So I had some leftover sweater material from the pumpkins I made.

The sweater did not felt like I thought it would when I washed it because it wasn’t all wool.

But it still was really soft so I thought why not a pillow.

 

I had a bed pillow I wasn’t using so I just cut it down and used it as the insert.

Then I cut the body of the sweater from armhole to armhole.

 

I had already cut the sleeves off since that is what the pumpkins are made out of.

Then just a straight stitch across the top with my machine and stuff the insert inside.

 I became addicted to making these cute little flowers.

There's a great tutorial that Beth from A to Z posted. She even made a video.

I had a gray sweater as well (which felted better) so I decided to combine the two colors.

 

I cut out some leaves and then outlined them with my sewing machine.

It wasn’t showing up enough so I hand stitched them on top with some embroidery floss.  

I whip stitched the bottom by hand as well. It was very fast.

And I managed to hot glue them on without any injuries!

Not too bad. I was really happy with it.

It’s a great size for my bed.

Plus I love the texture it adds. 

Now I just have one sleeve left to use.

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I can’t believe Thanksgiving is next week.

We are having our big feast at my sister’s home in Jacksonville again. 

If all goes well we will eat outside this year too. Only this year we will be over 40 people! 

You can go here to see our table from last year. And here for our Thanksgiving in 2009.

I’m trying to come up with some ideas for the table this year. 

This has nothing to do with the table but I thought a banner might look cute on her porch. 

I had everything on hand already.  I reused the burlap from last years runners. 

I had some canvas scraps that I used to print out the letters. 

I’m a sucker for cute fonts and I really love this one.

It's called beauregard and you can find it on dafont.com. Or right here.
You're welcome.

I used freezer paper and ironed it on the canvas then ran them through the printer. 

The paper was giving me some problems this time.
I think it was because the canvas is pretty heavy. 

But after a couple of do overs I was good to go.

I stitched on some bias tape. I couldn’t remember why I had bought it.

I must of had a plan for it. Oh well, I used it now.

I hot glued a few leaves and pinecones to use as a divider.

Then I had to tack down the canvas at the bottom because it was wanting to curl.

Leave it to Florida to be humid in November.

I should have sewn it down because the glue gun and I were not getting along today.

I have no idea how I got that much glue on my thumb.

Gah, it hurt so much. It was throbbing like Fred Flintstone!

That is the glue peeling off, not my thumb. 

That will happen soon though because that’s a blister forming right under it.

I’ll be back soon to show you what I did with the rest of the sweater from the pumpkins.

Now that’s an odd sentence.

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