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Decorating Your Home For Thanksgiving
Mini Pumpkin Lineup
Buy a dozen or so of the mini pumpkins and line them up across a mantle, evenly spaced, about 8-10" apart. To protect your wood, cut out little circles of foil or...
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Setting the Table for Thanksgiving
Napkin Rings
Cardboard tubing (from gift wrap rolls) is the perfect base for home made napkin rings. Cut the tubes into 1" wide sections. Hot glue some brightly colored fall leaves around them, then glue...
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Autumn's in the air; markets are brimming with gourds, apples and pumpkins, the trees are glowing with russet leaves and deep red berries. The smell of dried leaves is all around and the air...
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Harvest Festivals, like American Thanksgiving, have been held as long as people have been growing and gathering their own food. Just as the Pilgrims brought the English fall festival of Harvest Home to America,...
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In the winter of 1620, a small band of English settlers washed up on the shores at what would become the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Known as Pilgrims, they had separated from the Church...
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Almost 400 years ago, the pilgrims sat down among their Native American fellows at the first Thanksgiving meal. They had much to give thanks for; foremost, the food and gifts the Native Americans had...