Top Ten Christmas Gifts for Everyone on Your list!

For Mom - a lovely cable knit throw from Potterybarn

For Dad - iPod book doc from Etsy.com

For your brother - Return address labels from Felix Doolittle to encourage keeping in touch and sending birthday and Christmas cards to friends and family!

For your sister - a lovely charm bracelet from Anthropologie.

For Grandma - A traditional print on a glass plate from Kaas.com

For Grandpa- Whisky stones from paper-source.com

For a little boy - This angry bird hat from amazon.com will be sure to please!

For a little girl - an owl pin board with owl push pins. Etsy.com

For your babysitter - a bow and arrow bracelet from Anthropologie is right on target!

For your friend or hostess - a Paddy Wax candle or diffuser



Christmas Wrapping

Looking for awesome Christmas tags, stickers and cards? Look no further! Cavallini Paper Co. has the best designs around. A local shop carries them by me and I loaded up. They remind me of being a kid at Christmas time! I can't wait to adorn my presents with these tags and stickers and send Christmas cheer with their cards. I also got some to send a thank you notes for gifts received.
Go to http://www.cavallini.com/ to check out the whole line of goodies!

The Thanksgiving Table

There are a few things I love to add to my table to make it extra special for Thanksgiving.

Flowers that are of a fall hue...this year my wedding anniversary falls on Thanksgiving,

so I decided I want to get the fall color roses we used at our wedding on the table.

Another touch I love are festive place cards. The ones shown below comes as a kit from

www.paper-source.com I am going to have my nieces put them together and place on

the table while dinner is cooking and the adults are sitting around chatting.

The other thing I think adds a bit of whimsy to the table is the small chocolate turkey I place

on each person's plate. They can sit it next to their glass and save it for dessert time.

Lighting is always key, so I like to dim the chandelier, light the pumpkin candles and have the 

fireplace going with some soft music in the background. The perfect setting to give thanks

for all the amazing people and things we are so lucky to have in our lives:)

Place card pumpkins from Paper-source

Chocolate turkies...Pièce de résistance !

Getting ready for Thanksgiving!



It's been a couple of weeks since I have found the time to update my blog. With a freak winter storm hitting us last Saturday, we found ourselves without power for a few days. Lighting candles and sitting near the fireplace to keep warm, I know one thing I am thankful for...electricity!!!
After the Halloween fun I love preparing for Thanksgiving. It seems to be all about the food...there are no presents to give out, so no crazy shopping to do and no holiday parties to go to before hand. It is like the great meal before the craziness begins.
I can cook up a good meal when I plan for it, so that's just what I need to do for Thanksgiving. Cooking is a chore, not a pleasure for me and it's not something I have a flare for, but if I research dishes, make sure I have all the ingrediants and work out my cooking time table for the day of, I'm good to go!
If anyone has good receipes for Thanksgiving, please share them!
Naturally, my favorite thing is to decorate the house. I have my fall pumpkins out, fall foliage garland, my bushel of wheat and pumkin spice candles. The smell of fall is in the air at our house and I love it!