I hope everyone of you have a few reasons to be thankful for this year – I have plenty and I keep reminding myself of it often. It is quite easy to look at the “ifs” and “buts” and the “just missed”. Not just this day, I hope to spend a few minutes everyday to be thankful for things we often take for granted.

As always I scrambled at the last minute to get my Thanksgiving table ready – well I can think of many excuses why I left it till the last minute but this post is not about that. Here is a look my Thanksgiving Table.

Leaf Picking

Kuttyma helped me pick leaves in our neighborhood while R picked the twigs from the park. I poked them on to floral foam and tied the leaves with jute twine as I thought it looked rustic. The wine glasses hold some leftover cranberries from the cranberry sauce I made and old votive candles. The crochet doily was done by my mother, the gourd figurines we picked it up in the famous Otavalo market in Ecuador (more about the market here – on the travel blog). The pumpkin a Halloween leftover and has started looking rather pathetic but hey it worked. The mini bunting – well I need to have a bunting right? I am seriously obsessed with them. These were designed by Carli of Dimpleprints as pie bunting ( aren’t they just awesome). They are free to download here. I came across them from Maddycake Muses – another of the fabulous blogs I frequent for inspiration. There you go – a mini Thanksgiving table – explaining the concept of Thanksgiving to a 14 month old was harder.

I cooked up a non-traditional thanksgiving meal with traditional thanksgiving ingredients.

The menu

– Butternut squash and carrot soup

– Spaghetti squash pasta with a wholeload of veggies

– Homemade Cranberry Sauce

– Pumpkin pie pudding

– Sweet potato fries

We have friends visiting us this weekend so it is going to be fun! More on the other side of the weekend.