The winner of the oils from Aroma Sanctum in Salem is: Tournesol! Please send me your info and I will mail them right out to you! This week's giveaway is for a Fall themed basket filled with a ceramic leaf plate, leaf S & P, caramels, maple nut fudge, old fashioned root beer candies and all sorts of Fall goodies. To enter, leave a comment on this post telling what you will be doing for Thanksgiving this year. Or just leave any old comment. If you are not a follower, sign on to follow. The winner will be announced next Saturday and a new giveaway will be posted then.
Ok...so this is the star I saw at the country living fair. I'm not sure why I didn't buy it when I saw it. Probably because it was very large and it was 100 degrees outside and I was not feeling too Christmasy! I kept thinking about it when I came home and was sorry I didn't grab it that day. Rather than wallow in my regrets I decided to make my own.
Retro 50's Christmas stars.
I had these metal frames from last Christmas which had been covered in evergreens. The perfect foundations for my stars. I am sure they would work just as well on grapevine stars too.
I went out to all the thrift stores and bought all sorts of bulbs. Most packages cost less than 1.00. I also found some great vintage bulbs which I will use on the tree and not waste on the stars.
I bought gold tinsel garland and hot glued it to cover the frames. I cursed all the way through the project because I kept burning my fingers with the glue. Fa la la la uck!!!
I just stretched the garland and hot glued it until there were no openings.
I was concerned that it would not be sturdy enough but it was.
I started by gluing a large bulb right in the middle.
Then added other balls to the sides.
As I worked my way out to the tips of the stars I added smaller bulbs.
The assortment of bulbs.
These were really easy and fun to make. I think I will be making some wreathes this way too and will show the pics when I make them.
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I would love to enter your drawing. We are going to meet up with my family. My sister works at a school and there is a building there that the Girls and Boy Scouts use, we have rented it before and it is nice. We rented it again for Thankgiving and Christmas. Even though we all live with-in about 15 miles of each other I haven't seen some of my siblings for awhile so it will be nice. Have a great weekend.
Don't enter me in your give away as I live in New Zealand -postage would be huge. We do celebrate thanksgiving. We call it Cranberry Thanksgiving after a story book we used in our home school curriculum. Gosh it will be our 12th years celebrating Cranberry Thanksgiving.
Love Leanne
Please enter me in your give a way. (already a follower) Hope your fingers are feeling abit better!!
Also, good for you hosting yet ANOTHER giveaway! I know it's just now getting to be the holidays for the rest of us, but you really live the spirit year 'round. Thank you for inviting us all over so often, and count me in!
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I posted a photo of my old Victorian: http://www.brokenteepee.com/2010/11/before-farm-my-victorian-money-pit.html
The hubby and I are alone this Thanksgiving I am making leg of goat.
Matthew to be exact. Goat farming is a life of decisions.
I love your stars! They look SO retro, and actually much prettier than the one that you passed up.
Did you wrap the garland, or lay it flat and glue it? This was probably before your time, but remember those wreaths that you made by cutting strips from dry cleaner bags and tying them on a wire coat hanger that you bent into a circle? And every so often, you would thread one of those miniature ball ornaments onto the frame. .I had forgotten about those until just now. .it was one of those childhood projects.
The basket is gorgeous, and stuffed, as usual! I love all of the themes you keep coming up with!
CJ xx
The Craft Queen rises again, just in time for Christmas!
I actually like your Christmas stars best. Leaving the garland visible on the edges is more pleasing to my eye! Great job!
Thanksgiving this year will be here with one of my daughter's. Vicky has returned to take care of her Dad while he is going through cancer treatment.
We have invited a guest, a young woman who has no family here in Florida.
Dinner will be traditional:
Roasted Turkey, cornbread dressing, green bean and zucchini casseroles, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potato pie, and this year I am making your cranberry orange cake, a small ambrosia salad and iced tea.
We plan to trade childhood stories,and laugh out loud while browsing though old pictures, and watch a good movie.
Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving!
xoxo to "Teddy Autumn Fluffs".
I love seeing what Teddy has been up too and all the interesting things you come up with.
Thanksgiving this year will include two of my sons - one with his wife and my two grandkids. Looking forward to seeing everyone.
Please enter me in the drawing too.
Thanks
Add my name into the hat for the basket draw.
Swedish as I am, I am a bit torn about the stars :-) One part think they really are Christmas! One part says, where would one hang them :-)
We don´t decorate much outdoors for Christmas, mostly it´s lights in the trees but seldom anything else, so they would stick out rather much :-) But I think it would look great hanging on an entrance door.
Have a great day now!
Christer.
i adore old ornaments...
i may have to try this...
looking forward to a quiet and peaceful thanksgiving this year...
just like little mice...
kary and teddy
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Congratulations to the winner of the scents... Lucky dog!
I will be doing the dinner for 10 this year and a little nervous but it will be great!
Hugs and Blessings to you and yours!
Happy Thanksgiving
Yes, I would love a chance to win the fall basket...I Love leaf shaped anythings, especially plates! I'm spending a quiet Thanksgiving at home with my two sons. One said last night...Let's go out for Chinese! Yeah, Chinese turkey...sounds good! :)
Everyone loved all the items I won for the Halloween decor giveaway . I would love to win this one too of course .
I'm glad I popped by because I see the clams below this post ;-)
I'm going to send that to ds20 who is a Chef in ON . he loves seafood & clams etc.
We are covered in snow now Jaz !
our Jack & Lizzie are happy puppies once again ☺
I'm in Canada so we've already celebrated thanksgiving, but what we did, is have a big old turkey dinner with the whole family. We eat, drink and be merry. Then pass out for turkey meat :D
I'd love to be entered into this weeks drawing. I read you blog daily and have a link to it on my blog.
Becky in SC
As for Thanksgiving it's just a small dinner with me, my husband and my son. My daughter is in Colorado and won't be coming home.
A couple of years ago in need of an extended family celebration, we decided to celebrate the American thanksgiving as well... And it may become a new tradition. This year we will have tortiere and apple crisp. I love to make it with turkey/lamb. This is my fav. time of year.
Congrats to the winner of your last basket...I bet she'll love the oils.
Could I please enter in this giveaway? I am a follower and am linked to you on my blogs.
As for T'Day I am going to my Daughter's as she is in charge this year...I am bringing green bean casserole, my famous cucumber and sour cream salad and dinner rolls...all the rest she is making so I can hardly wait...it will give me time to play with my grands. Something I've wanted for a long time now.
I hope You, The Blog Tech and Teddy have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and may your blessings be many!
Please enter me in your giveaway I am a follower of your blog:)
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I can relate to the burned fingers as I'm mending my own glue gun burn right now too :(
Love the fa la la uck. I think I'll be saying that a few times myself now :)
This Thanksgiving I'm having my whole family over to my house and before they get here I'll be watching the Rose Parade...go see my blog post today to see why.
Hug Teddy for me.
Canada thanksgiving has come and gone, it was very enjoyable though.
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And I love that star! ♥
Janet
PS if I win the basket I would definitely help with postage on it!
actually...we had our family thanksgiving today...so on the actual day, i'll probably watch the football and read, just hang out and do whatever i feel like doing. :)
blessings
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I imagine I will just go over to my mom's house for Thanksgiving. She has been having a hard time lately. Found another lump after 5 years and we are waiting on the biopsy results so I will probably go over there and cook Thanksgiving dinner for her and my sister, nephew and father.
And for Thanksgiving this year, I'll be baking my very first turkey... @_@
Britt has to work a 12 hour shift the day before & then a 16 hour shift the day of Thanksgiving, so I'll have plenty of time to cook & fret... lolz... ^-^
I'm excited & vaguely terrified. My cats are extremely excited... they LOVE turkey. ^-^
I can't wait to see what you make! ^-^
xoxo
I am spending Thanksgiving day with my Grandie and Aunt and Uncle...comfort food and the parade!
Thanksgiving weekend I am taking my mom to the Pitt vs WVU Backyard Brawl (Go Pitt!), and making her a Turkey feast on Saturday :)
And I love those stars, how very crafty. Hmmm, I need to keep my eyes for metal stars now. :D
Thanksgiving isn't celebrated in Germany, but I wouldn't be I if I didn't celebrate Thanksgiving nonetheless. ;) So it will be chicken on Thursday -- and counting my blessings, too. You are a blessing, too, Joyce. :)
Hugs,
Birgit
Happy Thanksgiving!
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Please do enter me in your wonderful give-a-way!