New Thanksgiving Decor

Have you guys been checking out some of the great Thanksgiving projects that have popped up all over the blogosphere over the past week or so? I decided to spend a little time this weekend creating some of the wonderful projects that other bloggers have to offer up.

First up was a Pottery Barn Mayflower table centerpiece knockoff. When I received my fall Pottery Barn catalog in the mail, I immediately noticed the centerpiece and thought it would probably be pretty easy to recreate, but I quickly forgot about the whole thing. Then last week I found a tutorial for the centerpiece, and I was blown away! I ran out to Michael's to pick up some supplies. Here's my version...

I love it! The tutorial I used was created by Robyn at The Pink Peony of Le Jardin. I did a couple of things differently than Robyn did. Mine is quite a bit smaller. It's about 11" long and 14" tall. I used sheets of stiffened felt for the hull of the boat (Robyn used bamboo placemats... very cool idea). I also added dowels to the bottoms of my sails and attached them to the vertical dowels so they would poof out a bit. I filled it with acorns and three faux mini pumpkins, and I had a great Thanksgiving centerpiece for my dining room table! This was a quick project, and I really encourage you to try it. There is minimal sewing involved and a lot of hot glue. Oh, in case you're interested, here's the Pottery Barn version...

image source: Pottery Barn

Next up was some wall art. We've had this one blank wall in our hallway since we moved into our current house over a year ago, and I decided it was time to dress it up. There have been some great free fall printables available recently, and I wanted to find a way to use them. I also found a template that I really wanted to use for making some acorn art using scrapbook paper. Luckily all of these pieces ended up complementing each other really well. Here's what they look like all together...

It took me just over an hour to throw this whole thing together. It took me longer to hang everything up than to get them all framed. Here's where you can find each piece...

The acorns were made using scrapbook paper and a template from Christie at A Lemon Squeezy Home. All I had to do was resized the template to fit my frames. I love the way these turned out...

The squirrel and oak leaf silhouettes were free printables from Yellow Mums. She also has a beautiful turkey silhouette to match that is available in her Etsy shop.

The "give thanks." print was a free printable from madigan made. I love the simplicity of it and the classic turkey added at the bottom.

So now I have this beautiful wall, and all I had to come up with were some frames and some paper. I plan to change out the printables with the seasons, so I can't wait to start hunting for some ideas for Christmas.

I hope you check out some of the other blogs I mentioned today. I feel like, as a blogger, I'm always trying to come up with something original and new, so it was nice to stop and smell the roses for once... to take a look at what others were doing and use their great ideas. There are lots of them out there!

Thanks for stopping by today! I told you that I was working on posting my holiday "to make" list. Well, I'm still working on it, but I hope to post it tomorrow or Wednesday in hopes that by sharing my list you might get some ideas for gifts to make this holiday season.

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