Happy, Happy Thanksgiving!!

Thanks so much for all the Yogi love!

He saw the vet this afternoon, and has an intestinal infection, so is on a special chicken and rice diet, and antibiotics!  Hoping he gets back to normal really soon!

I took some pix of my November decorating in the new house today. 

As I will start decorating for Christmas on Black Friday, I thought I should show you before it’s packed away for another year!!

I continue to thin out my decor for each holiday.

I’m trying to simplify and declutter here!!

There are a few pieces that hold such sentimental value that I will never let go!!

Do you feel the same about some things you decorate with?

Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving piece?

This is mine!!  I bought it at a local craft fair long ago.  I had a booth at the craft fair and my Mother and two of my sisters came to help me out…

two of us bought one each!!  It has lyrics from such a favorite Thanksgiving song from childhood!!

It will be so nice to sleep in tomorrow!

And then the cooking begins… :-)

I wish you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving Day full of delicious food, sweet talk and special times!!

Time Flies!

HOLY COW!!  Where the heck did the last two weeks go???  I can NOT believe next week is Thanksgiving already, can you??

Well, in my defense, I have not been slacking… been busy in the sewing room… just not posting.   

I get a bit frantic this time of year making gifts for friends and family for Christmas. 

If you check the list on my sidebar, you’ll see I’ve made several things already this month. 

When I decorated the house for November, I found a few places I needed some smaller quilted things to use on tables and such,

so I pulled out my scraps and made a few new things. 

Let’s see if you can find them in my photos of my house all decorated for November!!

I save all my scarecrows to put out in November.

Back when I designed, sewed and sold dolls and critters at local craft fairs in Florida,

before we moved here to Virginia, scarecrows were always a big seller and I loved making them.

You’ll see lots of scarecrows in these photos!

By the end of November, after two months of orange décor from Halloween and Thanksgiving,

I am always SOOOO ready to put it all away and get out my red and green Christmas decorations, aren’t you??!!

Thanksgiving foods have really never been my favorite…

but I do love the whole cooking all day and family coming and

pick up football games outside the the parade and college football on TV inside stuff.

I always go out on Black Friday and get our live tree from a local store

and get my husband and kids to bring up the 8 big tubs of Christmas decorations from storage in  the basement.

Because I always worked, until now, I always decorate my house the weekend after Thanksgiving.

Now that I’m retired, I can take more time…

but probably will still do it all in a week, the day after Thanksgiving!!

When do you decorate? 

Do you go out and fight the hordes on black Friday to shop for gifts?

My husband and I used to do that …waaayyy back before we had kids…

but not since then for sure!!

I hate crowds and lines!!  YUCK!!

And I do make most gifts for my sisters, parents and friends…

but not so much now for my sons and hubby anymore.

Do you make allot of your holiday gifts??  Do you start early??

Sooooooooo My Bad!!

I am still here… life has been crazy busy lately, so I’ve not been keeping up with my blogging… sigh

But in my defense, the last few weeks have been non-stop at work and then when I get home, I’ve got just as many things to do.

It IS the busy season!!  Got all the Halloween stuff taken down and packed away until next year… and got all the Thanksgiving stuff out.

My November decor is full of scarecrows!!

Back when I used to have booths at local craft fairs, I sure did sell lots of scarecrows every fall!  :-)

How many real scarecrows have you ever seen out in a field?  (No fair counting the one in the Wizard of Oz!)

I don’t think I’ve EVER seen a real scarecrow out in a field… but they DO exist, right?

Do you decorate with scarecrows for fall???  Do you have a favorite one?  I do!  This little guy!

 

I made him about 20 years ago!  His pants were made out of an old worn out pair of my son’s jeans!!  He’s holding a little bird’s nest with an egg in it!  :-)