First: wanna take a short trip down the winding backroads of creativity and see how it all evolved?
C'mon! Climb in...we're going to a beautiful plant farm, home of this purty little rig.
The plantings are gorgeous this fall.
Here's some great junk. You can see much more on the Picking Out Fall Gourds tour *here.* I give you some tips on choosing gourds.
...and made simple ornaments...
...for a halloween project that didn't quite turn out. You can see the mayhem on facebook. For today's purpose, please note the green balls at the base of the tree.
So I thought: what else am I not really seeing and fully appreciating? These locust tree pods are everywhere in our yard. That's when inspiration struck. {Stay with me...the road is winding back around.}
I wanted to use the locust pods and plant farm gourds to take things up a notch. You might have seen my post on napkin rings that do double duty as place cards. But they are actually now serving as a base for these Thanksgiving table decorations / place cards:
Aren't they SWEET? She sports gold paint stripes, a head from a {fake} acorn, and feet of leaves.
Both get google eyes and wattles from a fall fake flower bush. His feet are flowers.
To make the tails, I poked holes into the gourds and stuck in the pods.
The turkeys from the plant farm do a double-take...
See more pics of these two on Facebook.
So. Much. Fun.
Want to see something a little more refined for the adult Thanksgiving table? I thought so! *Click here* for Natural & Fancy Place Cards.
May you find inspiration in your fall chores! And thank you, Babs, for reminding me that abundance and opportunity are all around us. There's so much to be grateful for...
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I'm linking up to these superb parties: Monday: Craftomaniac, Making The World Cuter, Marvelously Messy, Project Queen, The Girl Creative, Debbiedoo's Newbie Party, The Gunny Sack; Tuesday: Tip Junkie, Today's Creative Blog; Wednesday: Blue Cricket Design, Nest of Posies, Savvy Southern Style, The Trendy Treehouse, Very Merry Vintage Style; Thursday: Katie's Nesting Spot, Shabby Nest, The CSI Project; Friday: Finding Fabulous, My Simple Home Life, Romantic Home, Tatertots and Jello, Thirty Handmade Days, Whipperberry; Saturday: Be Different Act Normal, Funky Junk Interiors, French Country Cottage, I Can't Stop Crafting; Sunday: Nifty Thrifty Things, Under The Table and Dreaming; Thanksgiving 2011: Someday Crafts Seasonal: It's Fall Y'all!
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Grab some virtual candy here
I'm linking up to these superb parties: Monday: Craftomaniac, Making The World Cuter, Marvelously Messy, Project Queen, The Girl Creative, Debbiedoo's Newbie Party, The Gunny Sack; Tuesday: Tip Junkie, Today's Creative Blog; Wednesday: Blue Cricket Design, Nest of Posies, Savvy Southern Style, The Trendy Treehouse, Very Merry Vintage Style; Thursday: Katie's Nesting Spot, Shabby Nest, The CSI Project; Friday: Finding Fabulous, My Simple Home Life, Romantic Home, Tatertots and Jello, Thirty Handmade Days, Whipperberry; Saturday: Be Different Act Normal, Funky Junk Interiors, French Country Cottage, I Can't Stop Crafting; Sunday: Nifty Thrifty Things, Under The Table and Dreaming; Thanksgiving 2011: Someday Crafts Seasonal: It's Fall Y'all!
Party with The Wildly Original Crowd!
link up Wednesdays at 7pm CST.
8 comments:
Your turkeys are a riot! Love em!
Christina, you come up with some of the wackiest, cutest and most clever ideas ever imaginable (or not imaginable by most!) Visiting your blog always makes me smile :)
OMGoodness...these are so cute! I love the whimsy and creativity! It's wonderful to create and make folks smile and you've done it here! Thanks for sharing.
So cute! And I love all of your Falltime pictures. There is six inches of snow outside my house today so it is happy to see that someplace out there still looks like Thanksgiving time. Happy holidays!
How adorable! I love using items from my yard to decorate inside the house. Thanks for sharing this at What's In The Gunny Sack!
Christina, Your google eyed gobblers gave me such a giggle. :) What a fun place card/napkin ring! Love the locust tree pods for the turkey tails and all your Fall photos. Thanks so much for the sweet comment about the hedge apples. Hope your Thanksgiving is the best ever.
Babs
Your turkeys are adorable! I've pinned them and love that they are created from your garden goods. Happy Thanksgiving...
Oh goodness those are cute! I love how you are incorporating natural elements. Thanks for joining us at A Crafty Soiree, I've featured you in this Thursday's post.
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