Turkey Book Worm!

We've seen this idea for Halloween but thought it would be a cute easy idea for Thanksgiving!
We found an old book we were willing to cut up and got to work!

First, we opened to the center of the book, then traced a turkey silhouette on the page.
We backed the page with a cutting mat and cut out the turkey using a craft blade.

Be careful not to cut off the bottom so you can fold up your turkey!

Gobble, gobble, gobble!

Chalk board leaves!

A couple of years ago we made a ton of paper leaves. 
After cutting out so many leaves out there was an abundance of leaf stencils.
Then this happened...

Inside each stencil we used different colored chalk, then smudged the colors together with our fingers!

Mmmm...breath in that autumn air!

We love sweater weather! 

Here are some more leafy ideas!
-Paper leaves on parade!
-Turkey leaf!

Hello, November!

Halloween is over and there's a chill in the air, but it's not yet time for Christmas flair.

We're setting up for Thanksgiving with these easy DIY paper candle wraps.

We picked out appropriate late fall construction paper and drew on a quick plaid pattern with our Sharpie.

We love gray and gold for this time of year.

We can't wait to use these on our Thanksgiving table!

Can you please pass the gravy?

'Tis the gift to be simple.

We try to keep our Thanksgiving decorations as simple as possible.  It's a nice breather between the explosion of our Halloween and Christmas decorations.  

Happy Thanksgiving ya'll!

Paper Corn Door Decor.

Thanksgiving brings back memories of elementary school crafts...hand traced turkeys, paper pilgrim hats and bonnets... 

This indian corn is a nod to those woven paper place matts we made every year for our "First Thanksgiving" classroom feasts.

The husks are made of brown paper lunch bags.

It's unbeWEAVEable!

Amber and Gold.

We have an abundance of empty glass candle jars and been saving these for the Thanksgiving season! 

Well, we didn't know what to do with them, then we remembered the gold leaf kit that we had no clue what to do with either...

It was a match made in last minute craft heaven! 

  
The directions on the gold leaf kit were pretty simple-apply the adhesive, wait for it to slightly dry, lay on the gold leaf. We used washi tape to give it a clean line.  
For easy clean up, we crafted over a tinfoil covered cookie sheet.

Cold feet-warm candle.

There's this sneaky little nail that loves to poke out of a floorboard in the doorway of our bedroom.  No matter how many times we hammer it in it pops up again.  It has literally ruined all our favorite socks!! Just the good sock, never the cheap white ones.  It's beyond frustrating! 

The silver lining is...this candle!!  

We would never have cut up these socks, but thanks to that damn nail we were half way there.  

Corn in a Jar.

Such a quick way to make your apartment look festive for the harvest.
Literally, just pour corn in a jar...literally.

Who wants popcorn? 

Foliage Frames.

It's hard to find Thanksgiving decorations.  
We wanted our bookshelf to look seasonally appropriate...but all we found were some tiny cute turkeys from Target.
We needed more!  
We framed leaves.  

We like to switch out our frames seasonally. 
Simple, effective and dirt cheap! 

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?

Our favorite side dish!

This is one of our favorite side dishes...it's so easy and always tastes delicious!
It's a family recipe that's usually only made on Thanksgiving but we make it all the time!  

Ingredients
2 1 pound bags of frozen corn
1 brick of cream cheese
1/4 cup of jarred jalapeños cut, to taste!
1 tsp butter

• In a large pot saute the jalapeños with the butter, this will really get the flavors out! If you're a jalapeño lover, add more!  

• Add corn and stir until corn is soft.  
• Taste and add jalapeño juice from the jar for a little extra kick!

• Add brick of cream cheese and mix until melted and blended.

It's that easy!  
It's a perfect dish for the holidays because you can make it in advance and it reheats well.  You can also make it in the crock pot- skip the butter, throw in the corn, jalapeños and cream cheese, set on low for about 5 hours.  

Not only is this a great addition to your Thanksgiving feast, it's the perfect side dish for summer BBQ's and taco night!

Turkey Time!

You can't celebrate Thanksgiving without a turkey!
This year we used our paper leaves and make a turkey candle!

We gathered and taped our paper leaves to make the feathers. 
The face and body were cut from leaves too, we added the googley eyes for some whimsy. 
We like reusing our jars season to season so we taped our pieces to the jar, but glue would work just as well.

This project would also work great with real leaves.
Just be careful not to have your "feathers" in the line of fire.
Ouch! Save the cooked turkey for later!

Gobble, gobble, gobble!

Hipster Photo Props!

Thanksgiving is all about family, friends, food and fun!
What better way to bring everyone together than with a sensible Thanksgiving photo prop photo shoot!?

We made these ourselves out of cardstock and wooden dowels.
We had all our materials, so this was much cheaper than buying them!

Get creative with this and use what you have at home!
If you don't have wooden dowels, use a straw, pencil, chop stick...how about a stirrer from Starbucks...make it work designers!

We're so excited to whip these out after a few drinks on Thanksgiving day!

Time to make the corn!
(More pics to come!)

3 little pumpkins!

Mini pumpkins candles are really popular, we see them everywhere and they're so cute!

We read that most people use a drill bit to cut the hole, but cutting the hole with a knife was just as easy and looks pretty much just as good!

Trace a tea light on top of your mini pumpkin and then cut...but not too deep.
Then put in the tea light! 

Unfortunately, they wont last too long if kept indoors.  We've been putting them in the fridge when they aren't lit.  Seems to be working so far. 

One little, two little, three little pumpkins...

Paper Leaves on Parade!

We've been using the hell outta these paper leaves we cut back in September!

We arranged and taped them together to make a simple dramatic Thanksgiving table runner.

We aren't spending Thanksgiving here but it sure looks like it!