SAW IT. PINNED IT. DID IT: BANNER + TURKEY PLACE CARDS

Hey, you turkeys!
Who's ready for Thanksgiving in t-minus one week?

You know my answer to that.

Before I get to the good stuff...
Thank you all for the 60 some comments/emails on my post Tuesday.

You know, the one where many, many of you stepped up and said hello, finally! 

How fun was that?!

 So glad many of you aren't 'invisible' anymore. :)

If you didn't get an email back from me, make sure to go to your comment to see my response
 (it will be below it.)

This week has been busy, to say the least, preparing for our Friendsgiving sooo today I've got 2 pretty painless Thanksgiving crafts for you. A "thankful" banner that can be used as a decoration in your home and then these cute little pine cone turkeys for place cards. Even if you aren't hosting Thanksgiving this year, you may next year and the banner is just fun to have around the house so feel free to pin, save, share these.

Since Steph and I have ESP, you get double the banners today, which I know is exactly what you wanted.

First up...
Turkey Place Cards.

Here is the original pin:

Here is how I made them:
(the only pine cones I had were silver, except 2, -so I went with it)




All I did was hot glue gun a row of feathers in the back of the pine cone, and a row of about 3 feathers in front of those one.



Next, you attach the names of your guests (also with a hot glue gun) and they look like this...


{the host and hostess' pine cones ;)}





That's it!
I can't wait to see them on our tables.


Now, it's time for the Thankful banner.

Here is the original pin:
(and where you can get FREE letters for your banner!)

Here's how I made it mine:


Once you pick what cardstock you want, simply cut out the letters and glue on the paper.
I gave about 1/2 an inch around the perimeter of the letters so you could see the paper.

then all you do is hang your letters on twine with the clothespins.

It may take a little longer if you have a little fur baby dying for your attention and photobombing your pictures....do you see him in the mirror?

"Why do you need a banner when you got me?"

There ya have it.
Two pretty simple, pretty inexpensive, but pretty cute crafts for the holiday I'd like to think!

I can't wait to see what you link up this week.
Next week we will have a little break since it's Thanksgiving, so come back with full craftiness/yummy recipes/etc. in 2 weeks!

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Before I go, I'm guest posting on my friend Jane's blog today, go check it out here and say hello to her while her and her husband are traveling the world! No joke. She also lives in Lake Tahoe, which makes me kinda sorta hate her (except not really), since as you know it's our new favorite place!

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