Giving Thanks

I don't know if it is the warm weather we have been having or what but I can't believe it is time for Thanksgiving already! We go to my in-laws for Thanksgiving but that doesn't stop me from adding some Thanksgiving touches around here.

I was so excited to see that Walmart has super long burlap table runners for $6 (they are in wedding section). The one I bought is so long that it actually has to be folded in half to fit the length of our table.

And what is Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie right, one of my favorite things on earth:)

I have noticed that most of the bloggers I follow have started their Christmas decorating! Neal and I made up a rule (just to be silly) at our house that nothing Christmasy is allowed until the day after Thanksgiving, but that doesn't mean I don't have ideas brewing in my head!

I am ever so thankful to have you guys and I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! This year we are especially thankful because we have a new baby in the family that we get to go meet on Thanksgiving!!!

Thanksgiving Keeping Room

I thought I would share how I decorated our keeping room for Thanksgiving. We go to my in-laws for Thanksgiving so any decorating I do is purely for fun and doesn't need to be practical.

I was so excited this week to have finally been able to start to put things back into the kitchen. Up until Tuesday we had a giant stack of boxes in the corner of this room.  It felt very good to declutter our keeping room and make it pretty again. And I LOVE to organize so I was excited to find a home for everything in the freshly painted cupboard in the kitchen (will show the cupboard in the next post).

I didn't have the heart to make my cat move for this picture, she was soaking up the sun....can't blame her:)

I kept to my usual palette of mostly white with wheat colors and wood tones mixed in and then added some touches of Thanksgiving time.

I was so excited to find this linen hand towel with "Happy Thanksgiving" embroidered on it at Hobby Lobby. I know I am always going on about it but I can hardly ever find tasteful holiday decor so I was excited to find these. I hung it with some late 1800's linen dish clothes on this old herb drying rack (so sorry Tracy). I painted the little tote "Sisal" and then added some pumpkins and Indian corn.

And I found a new place for my crocks, I LOVE crocks.

Another find that I am very excited about is the antique basket pictured below. I got it for 50 cents at the Goodwill the other day. I filled it with all my of wheat colored ticking fabrics that I am slowly finding here and there, yet another thing that is so hard to find but shouldn't be.

And the ironstone bowl with the pumpkins was only $10 at the Letchworth Barn Antiques shop...still can't get over that one and it doesn't even have any cracks!

In my next post I will show pictures of how the kitchen/great room is coming along! Have a great weekend...and please check out my friend Debi's blog 7grands.blogspot.com, she has so many wonderful ideas.