Fearless Friday, Fall and Thanksgiving Decor and Tabletop
Have you started thinking about Thanksgiving yet?
I’m participating in a Thanksgiving Tablescape blog hop soon so,
I’ve been thinking about how I’m going to set my table
Today I’m sharing ideas for you to make
for your late Fall and or Thanksgiving table or vignettes
Here’s a super simple idea
Use a pretty leaf, like a magnolia leaf,
to add a sentiment to the place settings
I wrote Blessings on the leaves with a gold paint pen
I realize that not everyone has a magnolia tree in their yard,
you can also use faux magnolia leaves, paper Autumn leaves or
make your own leaves with watercolor for a colorful pop
Pumpkins and Pilgrims Tablescape
They are easy to make and you don’t have to have mad art skills
Paint a piece of watercolor paper with water
and then drop in red, orange, yellow and green
and let the colors mix into an abstract collage
When the paint dries, draw various leaf shapes and cut them out
Punch a hole and insert a piece of twine or ribbon
See the complete tutorial here
You can also draw a turkey and put him on place cards or a printed menu
You can design place cards and menus with PicMonkey
or a photo editing site
To draw the turkey
Start with a bowling pin shape,
then add a beak and a wattle,
then feathers, legs, and a pilgrim hat
Go over it with ink, erase the pencil lines and color with markers
You can make small menus to print out and put at every place
or a large one for a sideboard or buffet table
Indian corn would be pretty on place cards and menus too
You can download a free printable
of this Indian corn drawing here if you want to use it
How about a painted bottle with Indian corn
for a Thanksgiving decoration
You can also paint a turkey on a board or canvas
I painted this little board to hang in the center of a fall wreath
You can see the complete tutorial here
You can paint turkeys on glasses too
Just a few simple strokes and a turkey is born!
You can see the complete tutorial here
Here’s another fun idea,
paint the turkey’s body and head on a vase
and fill it with feathers, flowers or wheat for his tail
Gobble Gobble
Be Fearless!
I will be joining these fabulous parties and blogs
Sundays on Silverado/ Happiness is Homemade
What’s for Dinner / Love Your Creativity
Between Naps on the Porch /Turn About Tuesday
Wednesday Linky Party / Karin’s Cottage Linky Party / Creative Crafts
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Such cute gobblers Jenna! I especially love your watercolor leaf tags, what a fun and easy technique too, Happy Friday! 🎨🦃🍂🧡
Thanks Mary, gobble gobble!
I love every single idea.
Thank you Bernadette!
Being a lover of magnolia leaves I think your idea is niffy! And of course, the rest of your arty creations are so sweet!
Thank you Mary! Have a nice weekend!
Great minds think alike – I used magnolia leaves as place cards onc=e Christmas years ago (I still have a box of them) and I made “water color flowers” last spring and made a few birthday cards with them!! And you know I love your glass painting!
I love your glass painting too Patti!
All so pretty. I love Thanksgiving – the leaf project looks fun. Yes, I’m thankful.
Thanks Leslie Anne, I can’t believe it’s already almost November!
My goodness, so many great decorating ideas and awesome glass painting projects. I pinned your turkey glasses ~ so cute! Allyson @ Southern Sunflowers
Thanks so much Allyson!
We just switched houses so I was excited to bring out my fall decor today. I love your watercolor leaves. If I were still teaching, I would want to try that one with my students. It sounds like you can’t go wrong with that idea. They look beautiful!
Thank you Linda, a fun and easy craft!
There are wonderful ideas here, Jenna! I might have to do the leaf tags. I’m hoping (not likely!) that I can get Carson (6) to help me “decide the seating arrangements” and put down place cards. I’d love it more if he could make them with me, but that might not play out time-wise! This is a great idea!
Thanks Jeanie, have fun with it!
Jenna, as always you have so many creative ideas. I have a magnolia tree, so that is a great idea for a sentiment. Thank you for sharing. I always get ideas for my girls!
Thank you Pam, Happy Sunday!
These are amazing! I love the watercolor leaf name tags and the turkey vase. WOW! Pinning this for later. 🙂 Visiting from Love Your Creativity Linkup. (I’d love to see you share this at my weekly linkup as well, if you’re interested: https://lifetalesbooks.blogspot.com/p/calling-fellow-bloggers.html)
Thanks so much Jennifer!
Look at you and your mad painting skills. You make it seems so easy. Love these ideas Jenna. Your turkey glasses are too cute. Happy new week.
Thanks so much Linda! I can’t believe it’s already time to think about Thanksgiving~
Jenna, every one of these ideas inspires. I especially like the leaf placecards. I’ll be copying that one for certain. So clever! Thanks for sharing your talents with each of us.
Thanks so much Sarah!
Your leaf place cards and turkey vase are so creative and cute! I 🧡 them both!
Thanks so much Laura!