We always do Thanksgiving at my Dad’s house and I’m in charge of setting/decorating the table. I like to do a test run at home a few days before. I tend to go with a natural/neutral theme and this year I’m staying with that but glamming it up a bit with gold and brass. I love the combination. I think the white pumpkins keep if from reading too Christmasy.
I wish I had picked up more of those small white pumpkins. My dad’s table is loooong and I want to stretch out the centerpiece a bit but I can’t find the pumpkins anymore. I really like how they look with the doilies on top of them. I did have to cut a hole in the center of each one but I’ll save them for next year. I just put a little fray check on the cut ends so hopefully they won’t unravel.
Here is last year’s rehearsal (which I didn’t actually do at my Dad’s) and the actual table.
In other news this post is late this morning because my new HP laptop (less than six months old) is giving me fits. It has developed a really alarming noise. I spent about an hour with the tech people while they updated things to no avail. It still runs, although it seems slow to me, but the noise is really distracting and can’t be a good thing. It can either be attributed to the fan or hard drive. I have a great back up service so if worse comes to worse and it is the hard drive at least all my files are backed up. They are going to send me a box to ship it to them for further diagnostics. Posting may be sporadic over the next couple of weeks.
