Thanksgiving Decor

I like to dress up the house for the holidays, I like the way it makes us feel "festive" and such. Especially since I always have tons of ideas to incorporate into each season or holiday and most of them never happen....sigh.  So I at least try to add a little flair so to speak.

This year I reused our Halloween pumpkins from the boy's preschool trip and plopped them on top of some faux wood candlesticks (target purchase circa 2006) kept our family sign up because I love the darn thing - and seriously what's more thanksgiving than family.  I had some old dried mini pumpkins from last year that I stuck into a glass candle holder, kept my lantern up - not too much going on huh.  I did want to do a thankful tree, and I've seen them online and on Pinterest and think they are so cute and a way to have everyone be involved with the season and decor.  I grabbed some branches from the backyard, cut out some leaf shapes onto card stock, punched holes and threaded them - presto instant tree. I'm in love, the kids love adding leaves, and we're meeting the "festive" goal. Cost = 0