A Thanksgiving of Firsts

This year my husband and I took on the task of hosting our very first Thanksgiving in our home! The holidays are such a busy time so we decided to simplify and have both of our families over at once so we could all spend time together. We ended up entertaining ten guest. My mom came over early and we attempted dressing for the first time using my granny's recipe and I must say it turned out well. ...or the pan speaks for itself. :)

After all of the food was gobbled up and football was on T.V us ladies settled back down around the table of some wreath making to kick off the christmas season. We used  this tutorial from pinterest to guide our creativity! It was great to spend time with my mom and mother-in-law at the same time doing something fun. We thought we could skip the hot glue step, but we ended up having to go back and do it so I highly recomend you do it!

This is my finished product!

Throughout the month of November my husband and I also kept a thankful tree. Each day we wrote something that we were thankful for on a leaf and tied it onto our "tree". (We missed a few days because we didn't start on November 1st)

All in all we had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of firsts and I hope all of these 'new' things that we did this year will become tradition in years to come!

Its only the 7th day of November and I can already tell this month is going to be non-stop. I was just able to replace my Halloween door decor with something a little more generic! I was sad to see all of my Halloween decorations go, but I'm excited that Thanksgiving is right around the corner and I am hosting my first ever Thanksgiving at our house! Yippie! My new front door decor is nothing fancy and it sure didn't take any time, not that I would have had any to devote to the project anyway! I looked around my craft room and found an old frame that I wasn't using for anything and decided that would be what I used.

I nailed a picture hanger on the back, but I lost one nail... no worries a thumb tack did the trick!

Next I found some ribbon in my ribbon box and ran it up under the picture holder so that I would be able to attach my W I bought at Hobby Lobby a while back for like 4$

I looped the ribbon around my W, tied a knot in the end and took it out to hang on the front door. Its pretty plain, but it beats having a naked door!

- Enjoy.

Getting into the halloween spirit

I saw this cute Halloween wreath on pinterest a while back and decided that I just HAD to have one for Halloween! It was avery simple project and pretty darn cheep too.  All you need to make this for yourself is a floral wreath (Dollar Tree $1) Some black tulle, (3 yards for 3$ Walmart) a roll of ribbon for her legs,( $2) a piece of felt for her shoes, and a wooden plaque to write welcome or your family name on. (.97 cents Walmart) That comes to a grand total of $7 dollars, and I think it looks super cute on my front door! I can't wait to add some carved pumpkins, hopefully my sweet husband will be taking me to the pumpkin patch soon!
                                                                  - Enjoy!