It's nearly Thanksgiving! I love this time of year. Family, friends and food. What's not to love? And I love all of the very visible reminders that I have so much to be thankful for each and every day.
Today I'm thankful to contribute to Blissful Home for the very first time! I'm so excited to be a part of Blissfully Domestic and to make new friends, so please introduce yourself.
If you read my blog, you know that I love to keep things simple, easy and beautiful. I've been searching for some Thanksgiving decorating ideas and thought I would share some of my favorite finds with you.
Photo: Country Living
This candle display is so beautiful and simple to make with some fabric or scrapbook paper. It would look great on a mantle too.
Photo: Country Living
Be still my heart! I must find this tablecloth. Or make my own with some fabric paint.
Photo: Country Living
Do you still have some mini-pumpkins left over from Halloween? Dig a small hole in the top and use them as candle holders.
Photo: Martha Stewart
My backyard is full of these. What a great idea for a simple, natural placecard! It would work with pinecones too.
You don't need a perfect or immaculate home to add some beauty to your Thanksgiving table. I love my decorations all the more when they're surrounded by the chaos of family and dirty dishes.
Happy Thanksgiving!
If you want to meet other people who love holiday decorating, come on over to Blissfully Domestic's Seasonal Nesters group! Share your holiday ideas!
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Kimba, this is awesome! I love the candles with the Giving Thanks on it! What a terrific idea!! Its so AWESOME to see you over here and I can not wait to see everything you write about!
Kimba! I spent 2.25 minutes looking at my little leftover pumpkins tonight. I wanted to toss them but I knew my 4-year old would throw a fit. Now we have another project! Thanks. And I love the wrapped candles… Actually I love it all. more more!
Adorable use of mini pumpkins! Too bad mine were nasty by Halloween- I served Pumpkin Bisque in them for that tea party I had. That was fabulous, but I had hoped they'd last longer so I could do a lot of candle holding stuff with them.
I really like the idea of the candles on the mantle. My apartment's 480 sq ft, so no mantle. But I'm going to hang on to this post and, you know, keep dreaming! Great collection, Kimba!
Katie
Great ideas! My favorites are the tablecloth and the sweet gum ball as a place card! I have TONS of those little prickly balls in my yard…time to put them to use
Wonderful ideas!!!! Great article. Gets the ideas flowing. Thanks for the inspiration.
Awesome Article!!!
I love the white pumpkin holder idea – very classy!
Thanks for the tips "best friend!"
Kimba, What pretty, inspirational ideas!! I love the tablecloth with the message on it!
Can't wait to see more articles from you
What great ideas! I love the table decoration with the candles. Thanks for the inspiration!
Congrats Kimba!! Love the pumpkin idea, I have tons of candles around here. And the little placecard holder is so cute!
Kimba,
Thanks for all the great ideas.
You did a wonderful job on your first article!
Keep up the good work.
Love those ideas Kimba- especially the Giving Thanks candles!
Great ideas! I especially love the little white pumpkins. Happy Thanksgiving!
Great article, Kimba! And creative as ever!! I just love those candles! Such an easy way to dress up the table!
Hi Kimba,
I love your site, and these are great ideas! I have the mini pumpkins left over from halloween and my daughter begged me not to throw them away – now I know what we can do with them! I hope to meet you someday in real life, I am a friend of the Nester. You girls rawk!
I love it aaaaaaallllll! When I was a kid we used to have a sweet gum tree in our yard. I loved playing with those prickly balls, but stepping on one sure did hurt! I've seen a couple of other ideas using them and with this idea it makes me wish I still had one. But my husband would freak. I guess I'll have to
stealborrow someone else's.I didn't mean to harp about the gum balls, because I love all the other ideas, too, especially the Giving Thanks candles and white pumpkin candle holders. I do that with apples at Christmas, and it's just so pretty!
Kimba!
We want to see more of your awesome, simple and economical ideas on this website!! You are amazing and I'm thankful for YOU!
Kimba, lovely article. That table cloth is awesome! I also love the "Giving Thanks" candles. That would be super inexpensive with paper bags even.
To my new BFF,
I love all of these ideas! I'm using pumpkins as my theme for Thanksgiving this year, so I will be trying the candleholder idea! Thanks!
What a pretty photos – and great ideas. Thanks for putting those together. Sure wish I hadn't thrown all my little pumpkins away! And the tablecloth is my favorite!!
I love the candle idea how clever! They were all beautiful settings I cant wait to decorate and hord pinecones from the backyard for placeholders!
Kimba, you're wonderful! It's such a pleasure to read what you write. Your writing is good, your ideas are good, your instructions are good–and it all gives witness to the goodness in your heart and the sincerity of your efforts to make your home a soft place for your family to land. God bless you for your generosity!
Congrats Kimba! I like the candels with the letters the best.
How awesome is this??? LOVE your ideas & the pictures are inspiring as well. I have used the Pampered Chef corer to make candle holders in the past. . . but of course, my DH got to the mini pumpkins before I had the chance this year. . .they are MIA. Oh well! See you on your blogs:)
Enjoyed your first article. Can't wait for the next one!