Thanksgiving Table Decorations

Thanksgiving is such a cozy holiday. I just love all of the dark fall colors. But Thanksgiving can very quickly become an expensive and stressful holiday. The food alone is expensive. It is always fun to decorate your table to make it more festive and formal than usual. This year I made all of my decorations for my table with things I had already in my home.

I wanted some really pretty candles for my thanksgiving table this year. A lot of people use pillars or candle sticks, but honestly, I know myself, and I know my family. That is just too dangerous. Big candles like that are so easy to knock over and amongst all of the food, it is just too much for my dining room table.

I use mason jars for just about everything in my home. They can be used for so many things, and I grew up surrounded by them, and I am just flat-out addicted to them. I layered some split peas, cashews, and cranberries in two of my beloved mason jars and put a small tea light in the center. I love this so much!, it is a contained candle, and all the food in the jars makes it so festive too, and perfect for the dining table.  These were all things I already had in my kitchen so it didn't cost me anything extra.

I wanted to have more than just two candles to decorate my table. I love having plants or flowers as a center-piece on a table. My mom recently gave me a thyme plant from her friend's yard, so I just planted it in yet another Mason jar (I might have a problem!) and these three adorably country yet festive jars will make up my table centerpiece.

I always like to have place cards for thanksgiving. The thanksgiving meal at my house is very formally decorated so I like the special touch personalized place settings add. I had some left-over mini pumpkins and gourds from Halloween. After printing name cards off my computer, I simply thumb-tacked them onto the gourds and pumpkins. I found a template on word for thanksgiving place cards.

These will sit on the cloth napkins on the dinner plates at each setting.

I will post a picture of my table tomorrow after it is all decorated.

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!