Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing many blessings for you and your family.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Grateful

"Grateful for each hand we hold

Gathered 'round this table."

                              - Thanksgiving Song, Mary Chapin Carpenter

Wishing you all a very happy Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Table

I need to show you these pictures of my Thanksgiving table 

before I move on to Christmas posts.

So... here it is.  

 I am starting to think that blue is a perfect color for Thanksgiving.

Liberty Blue (Staffordshire) dishes mix with Ginger Spice Route (Pier One) salad plates 

and Virginia (Fostoria) stemware.

1970's Thanksgiving

When I was a girl, we lived far away from family.  So instead of gathering with Grandparents and cousins for the holidays, we invited friends over.  Close friends, who were given honorary family names, like Aunt and Uncle, even though we were not related.

Here we are,  circa 1970, with 4 families all seated around the table for Thanksgiving.   Where did we find a table big enough for 18 people?  My Mom set up our ping pong table in the family room!     Everybody brought food. Somebody brought candlesticks.  One of the other Moms brought over her dishes, so we would have enough for everyone.  All of us glad to be together.   It really was a perfect holiday!

Mmmmm, look at all that good food!

That's me there in the plaid shirt and lovely glasses. 

 (Family photos may not be borrowed or pinned.)

Speaking of eye-glasses, here is another pair to admire.

And look at that molded jello!

 (Family photos may not be borrowed or pinned.)

 (Family photos may not be borrowed or pinned.)

Four of the group had birthdays within a week of Thanksgiving.  

I love this picture of all of them blowing out the candles on their group cake!

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Vintage Thingie Thursday at The Colorado Lady

Thank you for hosting.

I must apologize for not visiting and leaving very many comments this past week.   I have been so busy getting everything ready for the kids to come home from college.  I'm hoping to get caught up with all of you in the next two or three days.

(All of these pictures were taken by my parents or other guests at the dinner.)

Blue Transferware Dishes At Thanksgiving?

So... I had this dilemma...

Many of the things in my house are blue.  Including almost all of my dishes.   I have some special guests coming this year for Thanksgiving dinner,  and I really want my table to look nice.  Blue isn't thought of as a Thanksgiving color, but I didn't want the expense of all new dishes.  I love my blue dishes and wanted to use them on the table.

So I talked to Nancy, at  Nancy's Daily Dish.  She always posts pictures of beautifully decorated tables on her blog, and I knew she would have some ideas for me.

Take a look  at what she posted the other day!!

(these photo's were used with permission from Nancy.)

Oh my!  Isn't this gorgeous?  A beautiful table for fall, incorporating blue transferware along with the browns and oranges that are usually associated with this season!!  

THANK YOU Nancy!!  You were so sweet to do this for me!

I have been out looking for table linens and centerpieces that will help meld my blues into fall.  Can't wait to see it all come together!

(Please visit her blog because she has a bunch of other photo's that show the table up close.)