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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{Thanksgiving Burlap Banner} from Pinkie for Pink

I am most always completely amazed by the creative talent that I am so blessed to see each and every week on the  T.G.I.F. Linky Party.  I get seriously giddy, my heart races and I feel my head spinning a bit when I see everyone's wonderful projects.  Thank  you! I'd like to share this Thanksgiving Burlap Banner this week!   l.o.v.e.!! Thanks Nichole for sharing this fabulous tutorial and your decorated Thanksgiving mantel with us!  

  (click here to see this tutorial) Lots more pictures including step by step tutorial.  Stop by Pinkie for Pink and let her know Tracy sent ya!  =)

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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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{Turkey Poop} Tags & Goodie Bags with Free Printable

If you're looking for a cute way to liven up your Thanksgiving table, hand out treats to friends, or just get a little laugh -- here is a cute idea.  

Chocolate covered candies such as whoppers and milk duds work great for this treat but any chocolate candy will work.  

The little tag says:

You invited me to dinner

with your family and your friends.

You didn't say I was the main dish

For me it was "THE END"

You frightened me so badly

I knew I had been duped!

So I left you with my calling card

this bag of Turkey Poop!

Cute and fun, huh?!  

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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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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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Using those Scrap Cuts!

We all have them; lots of them….don't we?? Well at least I do.  Lots of "extra cuts" from paper that I cut on my cricut machine of projects that were never completed, images cut too big or too small, or I "changed my mind" cuts.  
So I have a big ole drawer that I throw all of those cuts into to use "later"….maybe….  or to keep things straight…. if it's a project with a specific theme I will use plastic ziploc bags to keep matching pieces together for a later date.  I then put the bags in the drawer, write on them with a black marker what they are, cartridge, size, etc.    


Now….onto today's project….last week, one of Spencer's school projects included a homework assignment to "Disguise Tom Turkey so he doesn't get picked for Thanksgiving Dinner" --  some examples included a dog, cat, sheep, barbie, super hero…. let your imagination sore……so the first thing I did was go to my "extra scrap cuts" drawer and let Spencer pick out a few "extra" cuts to "disquise" his paper turkey.  Now….let's get started…..it should be no surprise though -- he picked all cowboy cuts…. and these were left over from some of his birthday party invitations from several years ago.  Plain paper turkey was going to become "Cowboy Tom" by adding boots, pants, chaps, shirt, bandana, hat and some jute rope -- hoping not to get picked for Thanksgiving dinner.  YEE HAW!  
He colored all of the feathers and mom added a few doodles to complete his project.  


So fun!  


Just an idea that those extra cuts can come in handy when we least expect it.  

Crafty Hugs!
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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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Imagine Nation Blog Hop 2 - Blessing Mix Favor Boxes #131

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by for the Imagine Nation Blog Hop 2.  The Imagine Nation Blog Hop features 10 blogs that will create or show us projects using our Cricut Imagine.  If you are on the blog hop trail you arrived from Abby's blog {here}  - If you want to start at the beginning click {here} so you don't miss anything along the way.
See below for a list of the Blog Hop participants and click on the logo with the Imagine to hop to the next blog.  :) 

Now...onto my Imagine Nation project.

A few days ago I became totally inspired when I watched Angie - MyChicnScratch's YouTube video {here} create a favor box and filled it with a Blessing Mix.  I love to create favor or goodie treat bags and especially if it has a meaning behind it (like this one).  I can't wait to make more for my family and friends to hand out at Thanksgiving. 

Angie was sweet enough to create a .pdf of the Blessings Mix poem and you can download that {here} - it prints 6 to a page :) thanks Angie! 

Supplies:

• Tags, Bags, Boxes and More Cricut Cartridge page 130
• Imagine More Cartridge for pattern
• Blessing Mix poem
• Blessing Mix includes bugles, pretzels, peanuts, orange slices, and candy corn
• cello or plastic bag
• brown and green dotted ribbon
• raffia
• gray brad
• brown marker for doodling
• brown ink for shading and inking box
• red sticky tape to adhere box together
• brown cardstock
• off white/vanilla cardstock for poem

CLICK HERE if you are unable to see the video below. 

   

Click on the box below to go to the next blog :) 

*BLOG HOP TRAIL* 

  

http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

http://www.pinkcricut.com/

http://www.scrapbookaholicbyabby.com/

http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/ <---you are HERE! :)

http://stamping4u.blogspot.com/

http://scrapbydebbie.blogspot.com/

http://morethanfavors.blogspot.com/

http://twoscraptasticgals.blogspot.com/

http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/

http://www.pixellaynestudio.blogspot.com/

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Thanks for visiting everyone! 

♥Tracy

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Be Thankful Blog Hop

Hi everyone - thanks for stopping by the Be Thankful Blog Hop hosted by Sarah at PinkCricut.  I am very honored that she invited me to hop along today.  If you are on the blog trail you should have arrived from PInky's blog.  If you get a little lost see all of the blog links at the end of this post. 

For my project I decided do a card that would be a great addition to a batch of homemade cookies, loaf of some yummy pumpkin bread or tied to a gift bag for a hostess. 

The base of the card is 5 x 5

Turkey cut at 3 inches from Thanksgiving Seasonal cartridge

doodling - white and brown pens

cuttlebug embossing folder - swiss dots

(ran through on both sides for indentions and embossing)

brown gingham designer paper

border punch - Apron Lace by Fiskars

twine - papertreyink

sentiment - Bountiful Blessings - Pink by Design

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Since this is a "Be Thankful" blog hop I'd like to share some of the things I am most Thankful for.....

- my family
- my husband and children

- my faith

-my friends

-my creativity

-my health

-my Country

-my freedom

these are just a few! :)

Next stop on the blog hop is Little Paper Sprinkles click {here}

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*BLOG HOP TRAIL*

http://www.pinkcricut.com



http://ww.217creations.blogspot.com


http://www.blueyecicle.blogspot.com/

http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/ (you are HERE!)

http://scrapguy.blogspot.com/

http://www.littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com

http://www.crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com


http://thecreativestamperspot.blogspot.com/

http://www.backporchcreations.blogspot.com


http://luvmybabygirl.blogspot.com/

http://gilbyscraftster.blogspot.com/

Sarah at PinkCricut is offering up some wonderful blog candy so stop by her blog to leave a comment. 

*CJToo Blog Candy*

I also have some blog candy for you today.....

I will be giving away 2 (two) $10.00 gift certificates to Papertrey Ink.com

I will drawn 2 lucky winners on Monday. 

For your chance to win one of the $10.00 gift certificates you do not need to be a follower of my blog but if you are you get an extra chance to win because I appreciate you so much! 

1.  Leave one comment on this post for your chance to win as well as a way to get in contact with you.

2.  If you are a follower of my blog leave a 2nd comment and that will give you 2 chances to win.  Again, it is not required to enter to win but if you are currently a follower then I'll give you a second chance to win.  Leave 2 seperate comments so they will count for random.org

Thanks for hopping along with us today. 

Until next time....Happy Fall!

♥Tracy

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Give Thanks Scrapbook Page

Here is a cute and simple scrapbook page layout for Thanksgiving. Sorry no cricut involved....

Enjoy CJToo Friends...







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