Can you believe that Thanksgiving is in 2 days! Less than 2 days.
I can already taste that turkey. YUM!
Fall is whizzing by. Christmas is going to be here before we know it. YIKES!
I guess I better start posting my Thanksgiving decor. So today I'll share my Thanksgiving mantel.
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I call it "Give Thanks". I know, I'm so original.
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I made, not one, not two, but three banners for this mantel (that is if you count GIVE and THANKS as two separate banners).
And please pardon the crappy photos. I only have the weekend to take photos, and this past weekend it was rainy here in SoCal. So the lighting was terrible. And I have no idea how to take photos anyhoo.
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The golden mercury glass candle holders came from Kirkland years ago. I still like silver mercury glass better, but this gold color works for fall.
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I printed out three different Thanksgiving/Pilgrim/Harvest sheet music images (I'm only showing you one up close) from The Graphics Fairy onto vellum paper. Here are the links:
Thanksgiving and Praise ,
The Happy Pilgrim ,
Tis Harvest Time. Then I taped the printed paper around the candle & tied some twine around it. My candles are flameless so I don't have to worry about starting a fire.
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The Thanksgiving subway art was a free printable from
eighteen 25. You know how I love FREE!
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The turkey came from Joann's a few years back and the white pumpkin is from Dollar Tree.
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Here is my "Thanksgiving" banner that I made.
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Super easy. I printed out the letters from my computer. I have no idea where I originally found these letters. But I love them. They are the perfect colors for fall/Thanksgiving. I just pinned them with some Dollar Tree paper leaves to some twine using mini clothespins from Walmart.
Doesn't get much easier than that.
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Hubby made me this wood plaque out of some junk wood he had laying around this past summer. He made me two of them to make signs. But so far, I have only made one sign. Remember my "
Life is good at the beach" sign from my Ode to Summer mantel?
I still need to make something with this plain one. But it works as a back drop for my "Give Thanks" banners.
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This giant lollie/medallion is from last Christmas. I just keep changing out the center piece for the different holidays. What says Thanksgiving more than a turkey? Nothing I tell ya.
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I found these letters from
AllSorts blog. She created a "Spooky" garland but luckily gives you all the letters of the alphabet. The letters are in black, I just made them sepia tone for my "Give" banner. Added some more Dollar Tree paper leaves & pinned them to a piece of twine.
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For the "Thanks" part of the banner I used my own alphabet art. I originally had the letters in a black frame sitting in front, but I like the looks of hanging the letters from the twine better.
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If you want to know how to make your own alphabet art, you can find the link
here. Everything I used to make the letters came from my own house. Makes it more personal to me.
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This is a terrible photo of the right side of my mantel. I had to crop it from a larger photo. I realized (a little too late), that my real orange pumpkin sitting on top of the books had started to rot. The original photo I had for showing you showed a huge rotting hole. I thought I would spare you, so I took it off and put this one up instead. Always thinking of my peeps.
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For this photo, I strategically placed the rotting hole in the back where you can't see it. The pilgrim man was a thrift store find this year.
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I have to make a confession. I just realized that the above Thanksgiving printable wasn't a freebie. It was actually some ones hard work they were selling on Etsy. I originally found it on
Pinterest. But realized that it linked back to
Be Different Act Normal. She posted it from
Craftily Ever After who made a print that she sells on Etsy after seeing a post by
Domestically Speaking where she made one out of real burlap. I just copied the print from Pinterest and didn't realize until just now that it wasn't a freebie printable and that I had actually stolen it. Do you think I can be forgiven since I have now followed back the genealogy line back to what seems the original source?
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Let's move on, shall we? Here is the pilgrim girl that goes with the pilgrim guy I picked up from the thrift store. The white pumpkin came from Target a few years back.
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And there you have my Thanksgiving mantel. I like that I used stuff I already had lying around the house, plus a printer, some paper and some ink.
Tomorrow I'll try and post the rest of my Thanksgiving decor. I still have so much to do before Thanksgiving. I am hosting this year. We expect to have 14 people. That is small compared to most years. But only part of my extended family can come this year.
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Linking to:
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