Day 20

Just slightly overdue.  😉

We spent Day 20 in the car traveling to our Thanksgiving destination – Aunt Ruth-a’s house.  We were planning on going the day before but a blizzard warning {first time in my lifetime here} prevented that.  We were happy to be warm and snug and traveling instead of on the side of a slippery road.  A day later than planned, a little slower than planned, but we made it.  Hooray!  🙂  My creative endeavor for the day involved felt and a glue gun.  Yup, in the car.  I might even be impressed with myself.  😉  It is amazing what an inverter can allow you to accomplish.

I love making place cards.  For Thanksgiving especially.  It’s been my “job” for years.  Last year we made cornucopias out of sugar cones, jelly beans and Runts.  Hard to top, no?  I think we did okay:

I love taking parts of one holiday and infusing it into another. Thus the “fortunate cookies” were born. The felt fortune cookies served as place holders for the dinner table. Mint kisses were hidden inside and a whole bunch of printed tags, labels and journaling tags were scattered around. I invited people to write fortunes for each other.  We got some funny fortunes from some of the smaller ones and lots of giggles.  Later I thought it would be way better to write “fortunate” things about each other and place them in the corresponding cookies. Ah, there’s always next year.  😉

What fun – and so easy to do for a crowd!   The fortune cookies are felt circles.  Each one has a piece of floral wire hot glued across the diameter with a ribbon over to keep it purty.  I’ll have to take a close-up photo of that – it’s a little hard to explain.  That way the wire can be bent and the cookie keeps it’s shape (thank you Martha Stewart).  Adorable and reusable.  And obviously portable seeing as I made them in the car. 50 of them, just-in-case.  We ended up using close to 40.

*Huge special thank you to my brother John.  He sacrificed some computer time to help me cut all those tags and cards.  I’m thankful for him!*

Nutmeg Elements by Cosmo Cricket {tags and labels}
font on photo: CK Renaissance

my bouquet

All digital product by The Queen of Quirk (found at JessicaSprague.com):

Scrap Canvas – Flutter

Father Time  Accents and Paper Pack

Actions on photos by Sarah CornishSoft Pop in The Photographer’s Toolbox x2  🙂

Here are a few close-ups of our garlic.

We got quite the harvest.  Over a hundred bulbs.  If anyone would like a few, or more than a few – let me know.  🙂

Festive Dinner

There are not enough meal times on Halloween to celebrate all the yummy food for the occasion.  What’s a mommy to do?  Celebrate the weekend before too, of course.  🙂

Especially when you have such cute place cards, napkin rings and and candy wrappers to try out.

These all come from the Costumed Posie Dolls Halloween Printables by Kitschy Digitals.  They were originally designed as treat toppers and candy wrappers, but are oh-so-versatile.  They are found at Jessica Sprague’s digital scrapbooking site, new in the store today.  Fun!  They came ready to add photos to and print.  Easy to use and oh-so-adorable.  I also used the Washi Tape Frames for typing the names on the cards.  I love Danielle’s designs.  They have a fun, retro feel that I just adore.  Which leads to an exciting announcement.  This is my first project being on the creative team for Jessica Sprague’s site.  Sweet!  There are many talented designers, lots of yummy designs, wonderful classes to take, and lots to learn.  I am with a wonderful group of ladies and feeling so blessed.

The dinner was fun to make too.  The smashed boo-tatoes idea came from Martha Stewart’s site.  We used the potatoes from our garden (about half of our harvest) and made a big pot.  The recipe is all mine and so easy.  Boil the potatoes with the skins on for 35-40 minutes.  Drain the water.  Splush in half&half, whole milk, 2% – whatever you have on hand.  Cream cheese or sour cream is also yummy.  I like adding Real Salt, butter and fresh garlic to the pot.  Then I take the hand mixer and whip it all up, right in the pot.  I add milk and continue whipping until it’s the right consistency.  Done.  Well – except this time I put it into a Ziploc bag, snipped the edge and squeezed out ghost-like potatoes.  Which is kinda-sorta similar to the pastry bag directions on Martha’s site.  😉

I didn’t want to color sesame seeds black though so I just used cilantro for the eyes.  The sweet potato pumpkins were yummy too!  There was no recipe, so I peeled and then boiled them.  I also used half-n-half and butter, but this time I sweetened it up.  A little brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg.  They tasted just like pumpkin pie.  Yum!  Cilantro leaves and stems and the pumpkins were complete.  I added green beans from our garden and hot-n-spicy chicken from the store.  It was a hit at my house.

And a big thank you to JB for holding the leaves nearby for just the right photo.

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