Thanksgiving Living

I love fall! I know I’ve mentioned it before but I love decorating for the fall, too! November is my favorite fall month because it is Thanksgiving!!!

We should be thankful year round but we put a special emphasis on it in November! Even some of my decorations get in on it…

Love this verse!

Found this handsome bird a few years ago at the Goodwill for $8 and I am still thankful for it! : o)

This tablecloth I made last year incorporates all kinds of my favorite things: brown, fall, pumpkins and farms!

But my Thanksgiving tree is my favorite!

I decorate my tiny tree with leaves and Bible verses on being thankful!

Psalm 100:4 “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.”

Better Patterns

I hate patterns! I don’t hate using patterns, although I do usually end up changing them after a while. I hate dealing with patterns! If you thought getting a map refolded was hard, it’s because you’ve never tried to refold a tissue paper pattern and get it back into it’s original package…

Tissue paper is so fragile and delicate. I always rip them and I can never fold them up again.

unfolded

yeah, I don’t think they’re going back into that package ever again…

I have a few patterns that I use quite a bit and have more that I have to trace myself onto tissue paper that I make a lot!

But my friend Bonnie gave me some terrific advice! Trace your patterns onto interfacing. It’s stronger, but transparent enough to trace onto. You can write notes on it and pin it over and over again. And they are WAY easier to fold up and put into a ziploc bag!

these are so much better!