Decorations and Dinner

The weather is getting colder, but we've enjoyed working on a few projects, decorating for the holidays, and having turkey and dressing!

I've been wanting to replicate a wreath I saw online a few years ago. I bought this plastic ornament wreath last year in the States as a starting point, so this was the year to make my wreath.

There were more than a few of these, but, in the end, I decided to go with all glass ornaments anyway.

I got it all put together with hot melt glue over the plastic ornaments and the original wreath form, but something just wasn't right.

I collected most of these ornaments at the local thrift store (kringwinkel) when they had their Christmas sale. Ross and I got there when the doors opened and couldn't believe we were 40th in line to go in!  It's a Goodwill equivalent!  

Anyway, I decided to take the whole thing apart (using alcohol to loosen the glue) and decided to wire each one on separately!

Done!  

I'm so proud of how it turned out.  It may not make it through a year or two of storage, but I'm enjoying it this year for sure.

Next, we planned a little cozy Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings!  That's a pork roast, turkey breast, Jim's delicious gravy, Mae Mae's recipe for cornbread dressing, sweet potato casserole, and Ross's favorite - green bean casserole.

We even had pumpkin and pecan pies.  Okay, it wasn't quite like being at Mae Mae and Pop's, but it was pretty darn good!

Ross invited a few of his friends to join us and it was nice to share our tradition with some of the locals :)  

We always find it interesting that when we invite people to share traditional Southern foods with us, they nearly always go back for seconds.  It seems so different from Belgian food, but I guess it's just as delicious to them as it is to us.

That's me, Valentine (val-un-teen), Ross, Danielle (dan-yella), Laurel and Jim (thanks for taking the photo!).

Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving too!