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How to create a Festive Hot Chocolate Bar

By The Style Sisters - Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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How to chalk paint a dresser with Annie Sloan Paris grey

By The Style Sisters - Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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Thanksgiving ideas

Thanksgiving recipes, table decor ideas and more!

By The Style Sisters - Monday, November 19, 2018

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Thanksgiving Orange Blue and Old Books

By The Style Sisters - Friday, November 16, 2018

Thanksgiving is the best holiday because we gather everyone round the table and share a delicious meal, we celebrate love, gratitude and FAMILY! I created a unique Thanksgiving tablescape using an uncommon color palette of blue and orange and I used some old book pages.

I adore these leaf plates purchased from Walmart years ago...they haven't carried anything like it since.

You don't need to match all your stuff..I used a mix of different napkin rings..I love these pale yellow ones from pier 1. Add some old book pages underneath dinner plates to add texture and create layers.

For a little bling I used these orange and yellow gold bauble napkin rings also from pier 1

Using old books my daughter folded the pages to create unique shapes that I used throughout the centerpiece. A friend made these mini chalkboards by painting cardboard with chalk paint and attaching them to painted silver clothes pins that allow me to write sweet messages to my family.

Another fun napkin ring...a rusty metal letter cut out..I found these at Michaels..I wish i would have bought more!!

Also in the centerpiece I used some of my little velvet Punkins tutorial HERE

More old book pages scattered throughout the center of the table used as a table runner..no worries about spills!

Set upon old book page Pinwheels (tutorial on the blog Saturday) are these metal pumpkin placecard holders also from pier 1

Here you can see the entire table complete with white napkins.

I think I like the picture without the white napkins so you can see the orange leaf plates better :)

Wouldn't it be fun to find old book pages with things about Thanksgiving written on it so everyone could share something interesting while eating? I suppose one could even laminate the pages so they could be used over and over.

Another cool folded old book...this is a great idea for torn or ruined books.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone I hope this inspires you to use unique items for your table this year :)

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Best Pumpkin chocolate chip bread recipe

By The Style Sisters - Thursday, November 15, 2018

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Baby boy shower

Indian Tribal themed baby boy shower

By The Style Sisters - Thursday, October 25, 2018

Our cute friend Michelle wanted an Indian themed baby shower for her baby boy and after looking on Pinterest we found some ideas from Kara's Party Little Brave Man baby shower and this is what we came up with.

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A family friend made the cake and my daughter Madeline added some green leaves around the base of our little cake along with the arrows made from cardstock cut out from my Cricut machine and hot glued onto wooden skewers. We propped the cake up on wooden crate and placed these white spray painted antlers that my daughter Emily had in front... to give this little cake some presence!

We really had fun creating all the Indian themed treats- These little “Tom Tom drums” are marshmallows I dipped in melted chocolate chips then dipped in crushed graham crackers. I used skinny wooden skewers you get at the grocery store and attached feathers with hot glue that I cut out using my Cricut machine. Click for the SVG file. I placed the little tom tom's on a wooden slab that I bought on Amazon for that rustic feel.

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Store bought Caramel popcorn in a basket lined with orange and white striped paper napkin you can find at Target.

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I had these little paper cup with blue zig zags on them and we filled them with a few fresh veggies and ranch dip and placed
them in my 3 Tier metal serving stand

I made these darling Tee Pee sandwiches by cutting the bread into the shape of a triangle and spreading each with cream cheese and fresh herbs and topping each one with 3 sliced cucumbers. For the tops I added pieces of pretzels sticks to look the top of a tee pee. Everyone gobbled them up!

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We skewered fruit onto wooden skewers and added a cardstock arrow points to the tip of each skewer to look like an arrow.

My daughters and I looked around our homes to find things to put on the table that would make it feel more Indian like...we found a toy drum, mini cactus plants from Target and the skull head on a stick and it just turned out super cute!