Vintage Thanksgiving Clipart

 For many years we have hosted my husband's 

side of the family for Thanksgiving.

Over the years as the family

has grown my ideas for

decorating and tablescapes

seating & buffets

have gotten creative.

For example hosting it in our

Living Room, which I wrote

about here in 2011.

 I'm already thinking about

this year's tables if we

are able to host.

 But even if we don't it's fun

to look at the vintage

Thanksgiving clipart!

 So many turkeys and corn ~

 leaves & pumpkins!

 I may use a few of these

for decorations.  Did you know

if you cut and paste the image

into a Word Document

you can take it to your 

local UPS or FedEx store

and they can enlarge

the image and make it into

a poster size mounted on foam core?

You could embellish it with gold paint pen

overlaying the lettering

or with ribbon around the edges.

I think that would look super cute

displayed in your foyer or 

on the buffet table

surrounded with some pumpkins

Indian corn or perhaps a potted mum 

from your grocer!

I think the acorn and the flower would make

adorable place cards too.

What are you working on for Thanksgiving?

I'm Joining:

Metamorphosis Monday

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The Scoop at:

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Inspire me Tuesday at:

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Wow Us Wednesday

http://www.savvysouthernstyle.net/

Style Sisters Centerpiece Wednesday

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Tablescape Thursday at:

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Feathered Nest Friday

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Show and Tell Friday

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Simple & Sweet Fridays
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Seated Dinner for 30

Welcome to our seated Thanksgiving for 30 (ok it was 27 but who's counting). I went with neutral dishes so that the accessories could shine, quite literally since I used silver and gold. Another bonus from using silver and gold is you can use a lot of pieces you already own, therefore cutting down on the costs. I rented the plates, which were ivory with a gold band, for 35 cents a piece. This meant we could scrape and load them back into their carriers and no dishes to be done! The silver chargers were on sale at Christmas Tree Shops for $1 each. I will reuse these next year when I host Christmas Eve dinner for my family.

We were chasing rain clouds the day I took these so some are quite shadowy I apologize! Here you can see the base linen round tablecloth's I rented for the three tables along with the gold toppers I bought at Christmas Tree Shops for $4 each! I think I will get miles out of the toppers for both autumn and holiday.

My candle rings for each table are actually the napkin rings from this post.

Each placesetting had a Thanksgiving cracker, caspari turkey napkin, and an ivory sheer bag which contained the flatware and was adorned with a gold acorn. I found the gold acorn's at Wal-Mart in the Christmas ornament aisle. Six for $1.96! Caspari napkins, while paper, are so beautiful I couldn't resist! More from the visit to their store in Virginia here.

After scattering some fall leaves around the tables, I filled the silver mint julep cups with roses and glittered gold and silver curly que picks. What would a Kentucky Thanksgiving be without mint julep cups! These were a gift from my Great Aunt Helen and I cherish them.

Hope you enjoyed the tour and will visit more tables at Between Naps on the Porch with our host Susan.

Living Room Transformation

Thank you so much for all of your comments and suggestions

for table setup at our Thanksgiving.

I decided to rent three 60 inch round tables and 28 chairs to transform the living room into our dining room for the Thanksgiving day. As you can see below, it was all hands on deck for setup day Wednesday. Madison is, of course, in a supervising role.

We moved most of the furniture out of the living room and pushed back the remaining pieces to make as much floor space as possible.
With the linens pressed, silver polished and flowers arranged it was time for table setting.

More detail on Thursday of the table settings, which I hope will provide some inspiration for Christmas as well as your next Thanksgiving. I'm joining Susan at Between Naps on the Porch.

Thanksgiving Tables

I'm going to host my in laws again this Thanksgiving and I have a question for ya'll I need feeback on so please comment!
We have a very large family. My husband has three brothers and a sister and they have 14 children. This Thanksgiving we total 28 -12 adults and 16 children attending. In years past the children were smaller and either didn't have a seated place or I set up small tables and chairs. Now many are in high school and our youngest neice is two. Do I do three tables of ten or a table of 12 for the adults and send all the kids down to our family room? Is a sit down meal really practical for almost 30 people? I will buffet set the food in our dining room either way as serving would be a nightmare.

Vintage Thanksgiving

If you are the host of this year's Thanksgiving celebration I thought this vintage Thanksgiving images might come in handy for place cards, menu cards or buffet markers.

All images were found on google image.