For my final Thanksgiving-related post, I wanted to show you a few of the things I did for decor. I rarely have a reason to really deck out the table, so I wanted to make the dinner special. I used my nice china (which isn't anything super exotic or fancy, but still, nice) and set the table with my pretty gold and silver snowflake napkins. I used a tablecloth instead of the matching snowflake placemats, and instead used one of the placemats as the base for a centerpiece.
The centerpiece was just the sparkly placemat with miscellaneous gourds which I had sprayed with gold glitter. Yes, I sprayed the gourds with glitter. It was more subtle than you might think. And, it added a little sparkle when the flames from the candles hit the glitter. I had several more gourds, but some of them started to get soft and rot. Bummer. By then, I couldn't find any more of those little gourds anywhere! The stores were cleared out. So my centerpiece was a little sparse, but it worked out alright.
One fun thing I was excited about, decor-wise, were these little mulitcolored leaf-shaped dishes I found. They are super cute. They don't really match the gold and silver color scheme I was going for, but I just couldn't resist. I used them on an appetizer tray to hold olives and gherkins.
Creating pretty decor and table settings helps make a meal special. Any young kid knows that it is fun to play dress-up once in a while; it's fun to do that with meals, too.
Happy eating!
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