Our Thanksgiving Table 2012

Hi everyone!  I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday.   Our family sure did.  We had lots of good food, football and family time.  For the last several years….I have been cooking on Thanksgiving for my family (hubby and my boys) and invite my in-laws over to join us .  My parents usually travel to Louisiana for some casino time -- so I am content with not having a big family get-together.  We love watching football on Thanksgiving Day and our team the Houston Texans did not disappoint us.  Yay!  I wanted to share a few pictures of my Thanksgiving table.  It's nothing fancy but it is definitely "me"…..I very seldom have everything matching and love a hodge podge full of different decor.  

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[Wood Pumpkin Candle Holder] with Free Pattern

Back when I was doing craft shows -- the Fall/Christmas shows were definitely my favorite ones that I would attend.  For my Fall show I would almost always make painted wooden pumpkins (just like these) and would most always sell out quickly.  Shoppers love the 3D effect of adding realistic items to my wood crafts like the excelsior, homespun fabric and ivy for leaves.  As with this {free} pattern -- this home decor item is very useful as it serves as a candle holder for jar or votive cup, electric melter [like you see in the pic], or use if for a multitude of other items.   I know it may be a little late in the season this year but you can always bookmark or pin for next year.   The key for me with these wooden pumpkins is to use 1" pine boards.  Pine wood is very user friendly and has a very smooth finish.  

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[Turkey Poop Mini Cups] with 8x10 Poem includes Free Printables

This post may look a little familiar but I assure you that it's a little different.  The other day I shared my version of Turkey Poop Poem with free printable [thank you for your sweet comments] and today I wanted to share a smaller variation with you.  

I thought this would be a great idea to make up some of these little cups to have on the side table or dessert table for your Thanksgiving guests.  Instead of attaching a poem to each cup (like I did on the goodie bag) I created an 8" x 10" poem to print and insert into a frame.  Your guests can read the little poem when they grab a mini-cup.  =) [Print the poem here] [Print the mini circles here]
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{Give Thanks Charger} Home Decor

Hi everyone!  I shared this Home Decor item over at A Rosie Sweet Home a few weeks ago and wanted to share it here on my blog also.    ------------- I love fall.  It's my favorite holiday/season to decorate for.  I love the combination of colors and scents of the season.  I've created a home decor piece that I can use all the way through Thanksgiving and I really like the idea of having it displayed in our dining room for all to see.   I picked up several of these orange chargers from Michael's several weeks ago when they were $1.00 each.  (they are regularly $1.99).  I cut out all of the vinyl cuts using my Cricut die cut machine.  I then added some bling and ribbon to finish off this festive creation.  

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Gratitude Turkey

This craft was inspired by Little Family Fun As I promised in the Burlap Foam Board post yesterday -- here is our craft we created to put on this fun board.  ::Gratitude Turkey:: What a great way to get the kids involved in crafting as well as being reminded of how thankful we should be for all of our things!  It's also a great tradition to start for all families during this season.   

Spencer and I worked on this project together…he gave me his "opinions" of what he wanted his turkey to look like and insisted that I cut it out on my cricut.  You could also draw it free hand or find a template online.  I used card stock for our turkey but brown construction paper would work too.  Supplies I used to create our turkey:

• brown card stock for turkey body
• turkey pattern (I used the "black-out" feature on Animal Kingdom by Cricut cutting out turkey body, beak and red thing-ee under turkey's beak) 
• red, blue, orange, green, purple card stock for feathers
• feather pattern -- I just drew free hand.
• I hand cut two feet out of card stock
• face for turkey - Peachy Keen Stamps
• Sixxix Originals Die - Frame
• various markers for doodling

I laminated the turkey for extra durability and so our family can use it for years to come.  =)

To attach our turkey and "thankful" feathers to the burlap board we used thumb tacks.  We tried glue dots and poster puddy but those didn't stick to the burlap.

If you like my Burlap Foam Board -- click here to see the tutorial.

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{Fall Pumpkin} Treat Holders

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

These treat holders are so easy to make and can be easily adapted to any season or event.  

Chevron patterns (like I used for the paper) seem to be everywhere in decorating nowadays and I didn't care for it much in the beginning….that surprises me because I l.o.v.e. ric rack, squiggles and wavy lines…..but this pattern has grown on me.  

The pattern paper is one I found in the My Memories Suite shop and printed out an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of it.  I got 3 treat holders out of 1 sheet.

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{Shining Jack-o-Lantern) ~ Paper Plate Craft for Sunday School

Happy Sunday!

With this being the Sunday before Halloween we created these paper plate Shining Jack-o-Lanterns to remind us that God shines His light through us.  It was a perfect opportunity to explain to the kids that Halloween is about fun times and use it as a teaching moment.  

To give the jack-o-lantern the 3D effect glue or staple each plate backwards (to give sort of a bubble or open area between the plates).  

Every year my students love making these Shining Jack-o-lanters. So Fun!

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{Candy Corn Poem} Treats

You all know how much I love creating goodies bags and when I picked up a package of Candy Corn from the grocery store I wanted to find something different to make with them.  I "googled" and searched online "Candy Corn Poems" and these Candy Corn Poem Bag Toppers were the very first ones I found.  {love it!}  Even better -- they have a free download where I could print them from my home computer (4 to a page).   Very easy to do and I think there will be perfect for my Sunday School class as well as my friends at work.  

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{Painted Burlap} Pumpkins Tutorial

Burlap is so fun to create projects with.  It's natural rustic look and feel makes fall decorating so pleasing.  I've seen some of these burlap pumpkins floating around different websites I visit and was inspired to create some for my fall decorating.  

With just a few supplies I created these fabulous fall pumpkins.  

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{Spookalicous Halloween Mix} ~ It's Frightfully Delicious!

Don't let the name scare you one little bit -- this is no trick but a treat instead.  I thought it would be a fun idea to create a spooky halloween mix that would be interesting to share with co-workers, classrooms, friends, neighbors and trick-or-treaters.  With a little help from Google I came up with some creepy, crawly names for each of the "ingredients".   This delightful mix will definitely get a few smiles this Halloween.  

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BOO Banner Tutorial!

When I created my Coffee Filter wreath here awhile back I left it plain and chose not to add a bunch of embellishments because I knew I wanted to cutesy it up for the seasons and attach seasonal decor just like this "BOO Banner" I created for Halloween.  I love how it turned out and it was fairly easy to create.  

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Pick of the Patch ~ Here's 30 Pumpkin Ideas to Share!

♥ To me pumpkins are the essential Fall decor.  Big, round, tall, skinny, fat, doesn't matter -- if it's a pumpkin that means Fall to me.  Stick them in a wagon, sit them on a porch, hang them off of a ladder, decorate them with eyes, glue or glitter, carve them with a knife, eat them, use them in a pie or loaf of bread, pancakes, muffins or casserole….they are just the essential Fall item.  

♥ I'm happy to share these pumpkin ideas with you for some added inspiration and Fall decor.  

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Fun Fall and Thanksgiving Ideas!!

Fun fall and Thanksgiving things I've found to share!!

Click on the links below the picture to go to the website listed.  

1.  Thanksgiving Subway Art
2.  Thanksgiving Turkey Pop
3.  Pilgrim Candy Wrapper
4.  27 Gobbelicious Turkey Cupcake Ideas

5.  Turkey Bow
6.  THANKS Jars Home Decor 
7.  Turkey Treats
8.  M&M Turkey Treats

9.  Gratitude Turkey Jar
10.  Easy Pumpkin Cupcake
11.  Thankful Wreath
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CJToo Crafty Designers Design Team Day! Thanksgiving Projects!!

Thanksgiving

 What a wonderful and talented group of ladies I have on my Design Team!! 
The Design Team assignment this week is

Thanksgiving!

To see more about their fabulous creations - you can visit their blogs by clicking on their names or on the photo of their project. Let's get the creativity rolling shall we??

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Shawn at Shawn's Fireside Crafting Room has this wonderful napkin ring to share. I don't know about you, but I'll have to add some of these to my holiday table!

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Cheryl at CardsbyCG.blogspot.com created this window shaker card. She even has a video of her fun card to show more of this fun project.

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Kristy  at Craftin-on-my-Door gave us this wonderful pic of her project. She made some of the best apple cider sliders I've ever seen!

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Tanya over at Tanyaisis Creations created this fun puppy card. I love the fall colors she chose.

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Kadie at Kards by Kadie created these FANTASTIC turkeys... hop on over to her blog to see what she made with them!!

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Shelley at Carleys-Closet made this terrific altered canvas. You really need to hop over to her blog to see the entire project.

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Roberta  at TX Scrapper Mom created this wonderful slice of Thanksgiving pie. What a great hostess gift or it could become terrific a table decoration too. 

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I hope you enjoy these wonderful projects. Please head over to give my wonderful designers some comment LOVE! I know they appreciate it as much as I do.

Crafty HUGS!!  
Tracy

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Clay Pot Table Top Trees and Potpourri Holder

I had a viewer request to show a closer view of the fall lighted tree I had in my craft show display here.  Thanks for your feedback on my hand painted crafts.  :) 

During my craft show days I made many of these clay pot table top trees in lots of color, themes, seasons and used many materials to embellish these fun decorations.  I hope they may inspire you to create one too.  

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Fall Wood Pumpkins

Here is some wood pumpkins I created several years ago and thought it would be fun to share with you.  Pumpkins are not very hard to draw out -- they are basically an oval, round, or oblong shape.  I love to use 1" pine boards for my wood crafts with accents of 1/4" thin ply board.  I'm so lucky to have a handy hubby to cut all of my wood for me.  :)


Lots of shading, doodling, accents and more make the pumpkins look very realistic.  On this set I used ivy garland, wrapped it around various areas and secured with my staple gun.  Spanish moss adds the extra touches at the bases of the pumpkins as well as covers up some of base for a decorative effect.  

As a wood crafter there are always scraps, left overs and odds n ends that don't get used in the project -- so my hubby will cut them into blocks for me to paint on.  I used a checkerboard stencil on the ends.  "Pumpkin Patch" was handwritten with my paintbrush.  It took many years of practice to learn to write with my brushes and as you can see I was a little off center -- no problem, I added a little rusty heart to the end and waaa laaaa…..you have a cute and adorable little board/block.  


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Crafty Halloween Blog Hop ~ Fall Altered Cricut Boxes

Welcome to the Crafty Halloween Blog Hop featuring my wonderful CJToo Crafty Designers.

Today we are all featuring Halloween projects for your inspiration and enjoyment!  

For my project I'm excited to show you a "trash-to-treasure", "repurposed", "recycled", "altered" FALL Home Decor blocks.

I used empty Cricut cartridge boxes as the basis of my project!

• FALL letters - "Mickey Font" by Cricut cut at 5.50
• brown lunch bags
• patterned paper in fall theme
• homespun fabric
• picks and berries
• raffia
• wire

{PRIZE ALERT}

One My Pink Stamper stamp set of your choice from the 
My Pink Stamper Stamp line.
Click here for choices!


To enter to win:

✔ blog visitors -- leave one comment here on this post…..(please leave an email in your comment so I can contact you if you win) 

✔ email subscribers that don't leave comments email me your entry for a chance to win.  Trying to accommodate everyone for a fair chance! 

I'll draw a winner next week!  
Good Luck and thanks for hopping along with us!!

To continue with the hop -- click here to visit Cheryl's blog……
I can't wait to see what she's created for us today!!

Blog Hop Trail

Tracy @ Craft Junkie Too

http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/

Cheryl @ CardsbyCG 

--> NEXT STOP -- http://cardsbycg.blogspot.com/

Kadie @ Kards by Kadie

http://kardsbykadie.blogspot.com/

Kristy @ Craftin' on my Door

http://www.craftin-on-my-door.blogspot.com/

Roberta @ TX Scrapper Mom

http://www.txscrappermom.blogspot.com/

Shawn @ Shawn's Fireside Crafting Room

http://www.shawnsfiresidecraftingroom.blogspot.com/

Shelley @ Carley's Closet

http://www.carleys-closet.blogspot.com/

Tanya @ Tanyaisis Creations

http://tanyaisiscreations.blogspot.com/

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CJToo's Fall Porch 2011

Spencer and I had a great time decorating for our porch for Fall and I thought I'd share some pictures with you.  Fall is my favorite season of the year -- I just love the pumpkins, scarecrows and scent of mulled cider melting in my candle melter.  Count me in for a good old fashion hay ride anytime! Too bad we don't get many trick-or-treaters out where we live -- but we love looking at all of the decorations anyway!  :)

If you saw My Summertime Sunflower Porch -- you know I love to change out the seasons with different decorations.  Fall is my favorite and I can go a LITTLE overboard -- (snickers)…..well, maybe a LOT!  


Thanks for stopping by and what is your favorite season?


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(Guest Feature} ~ Inking It Up Crazy

I'm super excited to have Ms. Kassidy from Inking It Up Crazy here today.  I just love Kassidy's style and projects and am honored that she will be here with us today to kick off a guest designer spot here at CJToo's blog.  

Take it away Kassidy…..

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Hi Everyone!  It's Kassidy from Inking It Up Crazy!

I am so excited to be a guest designer over here at

Craft Junkie Too!  I just love Miss Tracy, she is such

a sweetheart.   Anyways, I wanted to share a fun and

easy project with you for Halloween.

All you need is:

• Cricut Font Cartridge (Happy Hauntings)
• Mini Monograms Cricut Cartridge
• Paper
• Adhesive (Sticky Thumb)-best ever!
• White Gel Pen
• Twine or Ribbon
• Cropadile

To make this banner I cut the letters and

squares out with my Cricut.  I assembled 

them together and used my cropadile to

punch the holes so I could add my twine.

I added a little detailing with my white

gel pen.  This banner is super duper easy 

to put together.  It took me only 30 mins

from start to finish.  Thank you so much

Tracy for letting me be a guest designer.

I had a blast!  Be sure to come visit me at my blog:

INKING IT UP CRAZY
  Have a SPOOKY day!

 - Sending Hugs, Kassidy
 http://www.inkingitupcrazy.blogspot.com

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Thanks again Kassidy -- your project is super spooky and fantabulous!!  Thanks so much for sharing it with us today!!!

Head over the Kassidy's blog {{here}} to check out some other fun and cool stuff she has created.

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