This all started out rather quietly, while I was scouring the Pinterest Boards, when I ran across a beaded curtain. If you know me at all, you know I like beads, beading, or anything to do with beads. I suddenly remembered a beaded curtain my mother-n-law had been given and decided now was the time to try and pilfer it away from her. After all it was just sitting on a box on a shelf when it could be gracing my window right? Having acquired the above mentioned beaded curtain, it was promptly relegated to my living room table, in the box, while I thought about where to put it. Enter the Primer Family. The last couple years we have been cone picking for the state and have spent hours in the woods searching for the elusive cones from felled trees. This year one of the Primer boys brought me two dried twisted root branches. I took them home and sat them next to my boxes of beaded curtains not making a connection till a bit later. On this particular day I was also given a glass bottle that was found in those very same woods. I did not realize I had hit the jackpot until I walked into my kids bathroom and looked at the window. As I stood looking at their window it dawned on me, that I could use the root branches as a curtain hanger and hence the beaded bathroom curtain, window decoration came into being.
This was the beginning of my Pinterest madness. As anyone who goes on Pinterest can attest, once you start its almost impossible to stop. With all the creative things people pin, you could go from one project to another and never do all of them., but I was sure gonna try. With that being said, I proceeded to plan out for thanksgiving table decorations. I had bought some of those old cotton grain sacks and decided, with a little help from Pinterest, to make place mats and a table runner. I was able to get 4 mats out of each sack so I made twelve. You would think it would stop there, but no, as I'm cruising through of all things, Pinterest, I noticed a tutorial for making no sew cloth napkins so of course I had to make some of those. Thankfully I had enough material from a huge stash that a friend had given me when they went though and discarded some material they were not using. Of course no table would be complete without some sort of centerpiece so, having received inspiration from , wait for it, Pinterest yet again. I found a huge branch and proceeded to spray paint it gold, thanks to a friend of mine who just happened to have some gold spray paint left over from one of her projects. After much thought I decided that there just wasn't enough color so I convinced my husband that he just had to buy me some more gold and copper spray paint so I could paint some cones for the table. I have to admit, I was bordering on obsession with all this crafting and decorating stuff. Any way, after hours of prep and days of sudden craft making spurts, the final product was not to shabby.
Thanksgiving was a hit, I only spent about 14$ on decoration type things and we had a good time. I'm thankful for being able to have family and friends over for dinner, I'm thankful for Gods provision in mine and my families lives and I'm thankful there are so many people out there posting awesome creative ideas on Pinterest. God has given so many people talents to be used for his glory, so as I go through the rest of the year and into the next, I will be watching and waiting for the next God given creative idea.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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