Things Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Fabric Postcards

It always seems that no matter how much I try to be prepared for the holidays they always catch me unawares.  A couple of years ago I found this great fabric panel with these wonderful pictures and sayings for Thanksgiving.  I was so excited as I thought wow these will be so easy to embellishment with either hand or machine stitching and then send out to my family.  And here we are today (a couple of years later) and I have only managed to complete two of them. I was so tempted the other day to donate or toss out the others that still need to be embellished and put together but something inside me said "someday, someday you'll have time to finish these", so I put them back in my box for another some day.

2006 Turkey Fruit Carving

As you may be aware I like to be organized with my pictures, crafts, cabinets, etc but I find that sometimes my organization will just "explode" in all directions - probably a result of over thinking it.  Anyways, this happened recently to my digital photos as I got a new computer this year and transferred them over from my old computer into new file folders labeled by year and then activity. What I didn't take into account, but remembered later, was Don had some pictures on his computer too and when I went to check to see what I was missing I came across the Turkey Fruit Carving he had made in 2006.  I was so excited to find it as I wanted to put the picture in the same file folder as his sailboat fruit carving. I still have photos I am looking for and I also would like to scan my hard copy photos to my computer plus save them to a disk or USB drive but that will have to wait for a while.  For now I am still trying to finish up my UFO's.

Watermelon Sailboat Fruit Display for Nick's Graduation Party

The making of the watermelon sailboat.

First, we had to shop for the fruit which was a wonderful adventure. My brother-in-law John took us to one of their favorite grocery stores, HyVee, and we found all the fresh fruit we needed plus the melon-ballers. Next, we gathered up a few supplies from my sister Karen. We needed large platters, saran wrap and a couple of bowls. Then we took the stuff back to our hotel room which had a small kitchen in it. Don cut the melons and gave directions to me, my mom and sister Mary so we could help with the melon balling while he took a short and much deserved nap. Much deserved because earlier he had cooked his wonderful French toast breakfast for 14 family members. As Don napped Mary washed the strawberries and grapes and mom and me got busy making watermelon and cantaloupe melon balls. Once Don was recharged from his nap he assembled the sail boat and put together the other fruit display. Needless to say the fruit displays were a huge hit and a great topic of conversation.