Happy Thanksgiving

Have a safe & lovely holiday. For some peace (& holiday decorating), here's a little advice from two years ago. xoxo

(photograph by Amy Merrick)

Autumn Decorations

If you're not planning on decorating for Halloween or want something autumnal that can hang around through Christmas & Hanukkah, a hand-sewn velvet pumpkin from Terrain might just be the thing. There are three different sizes & a portion of the price is donated to The Learning Community, a non-profit dedicated to providing free parenting resources.

For more traditional ideas (& really last-minute ideas), see Martha Stewart's pumpkin pages. 

A cute (& free) downloadable Halloween card (with envelope) to color.

If you're not into the whole earth tone thing, here's a white pumpkin with pink flowers.

And no one does better round-ups than Kim. 101 Festive Fall Tutorials.

xo/gg

(photograph via Terrain)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a wonderful & safe holiday. We plan to be careful with caloric intake (ahem) but pumpkin pie is mandatory. GGCM favorite recipes (beloved by guests for the entire holiday season) are caramel-pumpkin pie by Gourmet & spice-kissed pumpkin pie by 101 Cookbooks.

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(first photograph by Roland Bello via Gourmet Magazine & 101 Cookbooks)

Balloons Over Broadway

It's Thanksgiving eve, hooray! Many of you are on the road or at airports (or will be). Wherever you are, we know that like us you will watch the 85th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade tomorrow morning. Here is this year's interactive website for some fun & games now. If you are in New York, surely you know about the balloon blow-up scene up at 77th & Columbus. Right? Here's New York magazine's Thanksgiving parade advice.

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PS: The lovely new children's book Balloons Over Broadway tells the story of puppeteer Tony Sarg & his creation of the beloved helium balloons in 1927.

(Pikachu's adventures in Manhattan by anniebee)

GG's Thanksgiving Fantasy

GG's editor just saw this painting on Tina Tarnoff's Thought Patterns Thanksgiving post. It's pure GG-fantasy. Visit Tina because she has the best attitude...isn't that always the way with people who are here by choice? Also, GG's editor is reminded that last Thanksgiving she sat with friends & ooh & ahhed at Tina's beautiful artwork & jewellry. She's busy busy busy creating so get your order in if you see something you'd like to give for Hanukkah (next week!) or Christmas or anyone other reason.

Back to watch Giulia watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Cheers!

Thanksgiving Eve Pre-Parade Fun

To get ready for the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade tomorrow, click on Fun & Games & solve a few puzzles. (Do not be alarmed by a band playing; we don't know how to mute it for you. GG loves it, she's marching around the living room. In fact.) Have a great evening. (Snoopy via life(dot)com)

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Happy Thanksgiving!

We repeat last year's vintage card (still looking suspiciously like Hallowe'en-turned-Thanksgiving) because we must dash. For those celebrating here in the States, have a safe & great holiday.

ciao-meow/GG & her editor

[image via Vintage Holiday Crafts]

Happy Thanksgiving!

This looks suspiciously like a vintage Hallowe'en-turned-Thanksgiving postcard...but GG likes it (even though the cat is not a redhead). Visit Vintage Holiday Crafts for public domain clip art of all sorts; they are very generous, so please follow their rules of the road when using the site. And with that, for those of you celebrating Thanksgiving with us, cheers!

xoxo,
GG's editor