Thanksgiving Table {Revisited}
| November 15, 2012 | Posted by Jessie under Dining Room, Fall, Holidays |
Hi everyone! Can you believe Thanksgiving is only 1 week away? I feel like we just got back to school from fall break {not that I’m complaining about more time off:) } and this month has flown by. I didn’t do any Thanksgiving decorating this year since we aren’t having anyone over, but I thought I would share what I did last year with you all because I apparently never shared it on the blog. I wrote a guest post for the CSI Project about it, but left you all out so today I’m sharing {ignore my less-than-stellar, not well-lit pictures}. With a week left before the big day, you could very easily create a simple space with any of these easy ideas. So, here it is!
Since we just made over our dining room, I decided to use that backdrop to create a super simple table scape and wall art for the holiday.
Let’s start with the table scape. This will cost next to nothing to recreate. I bought 6 vinyl place mats from WalMart for 94 cents a piece
And painted them with some leftover chalkboard paint I had laying around the house.
I would suggest lightly sanding each place mat to give the paint something to stick to.
I love the idea of having a fun surface at a dining table to write little notes to your guests, use as place cards, or leave chalk out for them to doodle during dinner.
For the place cards, I took some pumpkins I had sitting around the house from Halloween and cut out the stems.
Then I hollowed out the middle
And pulled some mums from our front yard and stuck them inside. I also stuck a fake leaf from the Dollar Store {leftover from my monogram frame} and stenciled the initial of my guests on each leaf with a glue dot.
Super simple and free! I did the same thing with a large pumpkin for the centerpiece {minus the monogram leaf}.
If you aren’t into bright colors on your table {which I admit, I’m more of a neutral person myself}, you could easily paint your pumpkins or wrap them in some fabric that better suits your style. The last little addition I gave to the dining room is the burlap banner on the barn door. I grabbed some scrap burlap I had laying around the house and cut them into squares. These don’t have to be the same size. I just sort of eye-balled mine and love the slight variation on each letter.
Then I took some black fabric paint and a craft brush and stenciled the letters on.
I spent $4 on stencils from Joann’s but you could make some using freezer paper as well.
Then I simply strung them from some yarn that I taped to the top of the barn door. I used masking tape to adhere the letters to the yarn.
This entire project only cost me $10 {$6 for the placemats and $4 for the stencils} so don’t feel like you have to go out and spend a ton of money to create an inviting space for the holidays.
I hope you enjoyed my simple Thanksgiving ideas! I’d love for you to stop by Imperfectly Polished to see more! Happy Thanksgiving:)
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