HANDS DOWN my most favorite thanksgiving decoration!

last fall we took hand prints that look like turkeys of the kids.

(my kids are turkeys, so they might as well make these!)

now i wish i would have done that every year, because they are my favorite thing to put up for thanksgiving!

i just got some frames at $1 store, but i bet you have some laying around your home.

nice crooked pictures ba!

they get big way too fast...

what are we thankful for? (plus a giveaway!)

every november, we get out this old, laminated tree that i made 7 years ago and stick it to our back door. then leaves are made and we spend one monday night naming what we are thankful for.

here is this years...

(yes that is a tree and NOT a bush!)

there were the usual answers...family, friends, food...

then the not so normal answers...kyle (whittingham. coach of the u of u football team. that was chris's idea.), world peace (that was nate. he might be a mr. usa in training.), america (this is parker. he has a man-crush on stephen colbert.), computers (i will blame the kids for this, but im thankful for them too!)...

im really in the giving thanks mode right now.

 i love fall and all the beauty it brings.

i love that all 3 of my boys were born this month.

i love that we can put on the fireplace when it is cold.

and of course i love all my readers!

so i will be sending this amazing necklace to the person who is thankful for the weirdest thing.

and yes, this is a christmas necklace, but by the time send it, it will be time to wear it!

and yes, i will have a chain by then!
you have until sunday midnight people!

today i am grateful for nate!

i had totally forgot that i had got this cornucopia at savers ($2.99!) last spring.

well, forgot until nate comes upstairs wearing it as a hat.

and then blowing it like a horn.

now that looks like fall!

be thankful for the love of pete!

now november is a wonderful month!

i love all the fuzzy family feelings that go along with thanksgiving (aka-food!).

christmas music has started playing.

you get to switch from halloween to fall-ish decor (i love the switch up).

and i have exactly 15 birthdays (including my 2 kids and hubby) this month.

and yes, we will be broke by the end of the month.

so here is a really inexpensive craft!

i made this last year and that is when i started thinking i should start a crafty/thrifty blog.

i made 1 for me, 1 with jen and 1 with summer, one for my mother in law, one for my sister in law and one for my friend shellie.

yup-six!

but i didn't mind at all. the hardest part was waiting for them to dry.

get out some of your big foamy stamps that you got years ago to scrapbook with and never got around to using.

along with some craft paint that may or may not have the lid stuck shut from the last paint job you did 2 years ago.

i got about a yard of burlap (i have a smaller island, but if you need a table runner, make it as big as you'd like)-any color that works for your kitchen or dining room. (i have noticed that there is oranges and reds now...that would look sweet!)

i cut my burlap in half so that i had 2 pieces of 1 yard long burlap.

then stamp away. i would suggest putting some newspaper under your stamping so you don't have a huge clean up.

but hey-if you like cleaning...

i wrote 'thankful', but i'm sure you can write something else.

and the finished project! how adorable is that?

not just adorable-but easy!