Happy Thanksgiving

From time to time, I miss how much fun I had creating and decorating beautiful weddings. I love decorating for events and making them look awesome! Of course, with two babies that job is on pause. So, when my business/science minded friend posted on Facebook that she really needed help decorating for Christmas to the standards of hosting a party, I volunteered. Yesterday, I met with her to begin a list to create and get a feel for what she wants her Christmas home to feel like. I want to help her create something that is easy to bring out and enjoy every year. We got started with a tree and I created a piece for her table. She wants it to be traditional but she has young children, so it should have some youth to it as well.

Over the next week we plan to transform everything to match the season. Tonight I will be creating pieces to transform her fridge into a squared snowman. Over the weekend I plan to create beautiful greenery pieces for her doorways and fireplace. Also, they have a built in bar area in their home that will go a long way in entertaining party guests. I am trying to come up with a good decor scheme to make it festive and pretty but not get in the way of functionality. Does anyone reading this have an area like that in your home? Any good approaches you can suggest?

 

Who has their decorations up? When does your home start to look a lot like Christmas? 

Also what is everyone's Thanksgiving plans? Ours are pretty minimal. While Stephen's position as a Walmart assistant manager takes great care of our family, it has its drawbacks. Such as, the fact he will be going in at 6pm tomorrow. So we will be going out to dinner. Im actually fine with it. The place we are going has delicious food. And Im not stuck with all the clean up. Also the small amount of time we have is spent enjoying dinner together and not cooking and stuff. Right before I drop him off to work, I will be taking the kiddos to a friend's house so I can get in line for the first round of Black Friday sales when I take Stephen.

 

So whatever you guys are doing, I hope everyone enjoys a lovely Thanksgiving! Also, Im ending with a picture of my kids at the playground today just because, I love them and think they are cute!