As I’ve been terrorizing the husband with mayhem everywhere in our home, I am slowly completing tasks. The grand boy’s came in the door yesterday for Thanksgiving, and the first words out of their mouth? You can’t decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving! I wanted to say REALLY!!! I said well it’s November 28th and Christmas is just around the corner. Besides it takes me a good 3 weeks to get my “simple” Christmas pulled together. We won’t even discuss the tree yet. It’s always the last thing to go up, and I usually do wait until after Thanksgiving. Guess what I’m doing tomorrow!

What was the Thanksgiving table like? Hmm, 2 days of putting it together, tearing it down. Table all the way extended, or not! This wasn’t an easy one for me. I like to explore the possibilities but, this time I could not hit pay dirt. To use a cake stand or not, the cloche or not, a tree perhaps, oh my gosh it was a mess. I just couldn’t be satisfied. Ultimately I ended up with a cypress tree in the middle with an old cut velveteen runner.

I am so over fall that I wanted a hint of sparkle. My William Sonoma Woodland Berry dishes on pewter chargers, my newer pewter fox napkin rings and the embroidered napkins I made a couple of years ago. Francis the First Sterling that clearly needs to be polished!

It’s funny I usually love snaking greens or garland down the center of the table but, this year it felt too heavy. The cake stand too tall, the cloche uninteresting. I couldn’t even get my beloved antique pewter altar candlesticks to work. They were too tall and too heavy. I opted for a shorter pair of pewter candlesticks with a few Christmas bobbles thrown in here and there.

Of course I had to sprinkle the domino’s down the table.

In the end none of that mattered. We were just a family having a meal together chatting about everything and saying yum a lot. Oh and pass the butter! There is nothing like Thanksgiving dinner. Oh I guess I’ll stop now and go do it all again! Tell me about yours.

Thanks for stopping

Shelley