Savannah Granny's Having a Shabby Apple Giveaway

My sweet friend Ginger @ Savannah Granny is having a giveaway to make you even more glamorous during all your holiday partying.  One of her lucky followers is going to win this dress from Shabby Apple.  Just click here or the photo above to visit Ginger and enter her giveaway.  You'll not only have a chance to win a gorgeous dress, you'll get to know the sweetest person too.

Good Luck!

P.S.  My Cheerios giveaway ends tonight 11/28 at midnight.  Please enter if you haven't already.  The Eat Smart giveaway ends on Dec. 5th.  You don't want to miss these.  Just click the pictures below to visit each and enter.  And remember I'm listing giveaways that I find throughout the day.  This is just the latest.  Click that previous post button at the bottom of this one to keep going back and see what you might have missed.  I also have a few more of my own to list starting Friday.  I promise you don't want to miss them.

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I Love Using Natural Elements In My Home

We have such a short fall season here, it makes me really appreciate the warm brown tones in nature that we get.  We used to get to travel more and I would go crazy in North Georgia and the Great Smokey Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee in autumn.  All those beautiful colors and the crispness of the autumn air.  Aaahhhh ~ I just love it.  Here are a few of the Thanksgiving things I made the last couple of weeks.

I like to use what I have.  And this whitewashed reed bowl was perfect to hold all the pine cones.  I've had this beautiful candle for years and bring it out every fall through Christmas.  I love the embedded apples and greenery.  

This year I didn't get any cinnamon scented pine cones.  (I hate buying them knowing that they are on the side of the road and in yards everywhere here)  But I love the smell.  I found an easy tutorial here at Suzy's Sitcom to scent them yourself. 

I found the tutorial to make a pine cone garland thanks to Jessica @ Two Shades of Pink  and put my own spin on it and came up with this garland for my kitchen/dining room bar.

I love my Willow House hurricane lantern that I won from Heidi at Decor & More this year.

Another item from a thrift store that I've had for the longest time is this cute little turkey that's just right to hold walnuts and pecans.

And my table wouldn't be complete without a table runner.  So I made some patch work turkeys.  The plaid fabric is such a soft flannel feeling wool blend that I tea died.  I just cut some half circles and scalloped the edges in 3 different fabrics for the turkey feathers.  Then I sewed them on with a zigzag stitch.  Okay zigzag stitching the individual pieces for 7 turkeys was a little time consuming and tedious.  But hey, I'm totally happy with the end results.  Much cuter than my photos show.   I used brown flannel to cut out Mr. Turkeys body and head for a simple silhouette.  I made a wider burlap runner to go underneath.

Another simple and easy to make decoration are these adorable pumpkin candles.  Already having the twine and the glue.  I spent a total of  $2.  $1 for a package of balloons, which I have plenty left and $1 for the pkg of 2 flickering candles from Dollar Tree.  No chance of fire with these.  It's as easy as blowing up a balloon and wrapping it with jute twine.   I'll post the simple tutorial later.  I think I could make some really cute ornaments with this idea.

We had a late dinner this year.  Instead of the usual 2 o'clock meal we ate at 6:30.  I loved having it by candlelight.  I've had these metal twig candle holders for years and still love them.  I didn't have a tall candle for the big holder so a simple trick was to take 2 of my autumn leaf embedded candles and stack them on top of one another for the look of one large candle.

Well that's it for my Thanksgiving decor.  I hope you enjoy looking at it.  It's time to pack it away and think about Christmas now.  I love looking at everyone's Christmas decorations.  Being a crafter, sewer, etc...I love seeing these things months ahead of time.  If only I could start doing them in July and have some for Etsy early.  I think that is going to go on my calendar for next year.  Start Christmas crafts in July.


And for those of you who got your decorating done yesterday or even this weekend ~ Big, major kudos to you!!!  I on the other hand am still in the exhausted after Thanksgiving mode.


It was a really nice Thanksgiving.  I think it was all the projects that I took on before Thanksgiving that whooped me.  I'll be sharing more of those this week.  We had my cousin, Greg over.  I told you about him a week or so ago.  He was having heart problems but seems to be fine now.  It was great having him over.  The sweet guy, brought me a hostess gift and cooked greens (yum) and a green bean casserole himself.  He helped me in the kitchen and we laughed and had fun.  We all ate too much.  It's hard to cook Thanksgiving for 3 and not eat to much.  You just want to have a little of everything available.  We had so much fun that I completely forgot to take pictures.

Another reminder not to forget to enter my two giveaways.  Just click the pictures below to visit each and enter. 

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Have a fun weekend Ya'll!

Check out the fun party hops below that I've linked up to this week.

Mary Englebreit's Nutcracker Giveaway and More

Do you love Mary Englebreit as much as I do?  Bet you do.  Well you don't want to miss her Nutcracker giveaway.  Just click here using my special link:  http://maryengelbreit.com/n/hairlesslaw.  When you use that link is gives me points for your entry and then gives you a special link of your own to share.  Get it?  I knew you would.


Don't forget to enter my two giveaways.  Just click the pictures below to visit each and enter.  And remember I'm listing giveaways that I find throughout the day.  This is just the latest.  Click that previous post button at the bottom of this one to keep going back and see what you might have missed.  I also have a few more of my own to list starting Friday.  I promise you don't want to miss them.

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Cheerios Spread the Cheer

Now I need to take a break from blogging and get to working on my my own holiday preparations.

Hugs Ya'll

 

 

 

Help Spread the Cheer and Enter to Win the Cheerios Prize Pack Giveaway

Yippie ~ I found my lost post and didn't have to retype it.  Maybe the update was just meant to show up first. If you're confused just read this.

 

While most of us are lucky enough to be at home with our families during the holiday season, there are many military families that aren't.  Cheerios has come up with a way for us to spread a little "cheer" to those who serve us and our country so well.  Right now through November 2011 Cheerios wants to help spread a little "cheer" to military families this season! Now through November 2011 - specially marked boxes of Cheerios cereal will feature Cheer postcards, like the on below right on the front of the box. All you have to do is just cut it out of the box and write a message to add some cheer to a military members holiday on the back.  The card is already addressed, just add a stamp and pop it in the mail.  What could be simpler than that?  

 

 And Cheerios didn't stop there

• For each postcard received through November 2012, Cheerios will make a $1 donation to the USO to help fund programs that support military families.
• To kick off the campaign, Cheerios has already donated $150,000 to the USO and will donate up to an additional $100,000 based upon the number of postcards received from specially marked boxes now through November 30th, 2012.

I think this is a great way to teach our children (and grandchildren) how to share the Holiday spirit by giving to others.

Cheerios is helping me spread that holiday cheer by offering a special Cheer Prize pack, like the one below,  to one of my readers.

This prize package includes:

• 1 Cheerios cereal bowl
• 1 Cheerios cereal spoon
• 1 cereal dispenser
• 1 “Cheer” box of Cheerios

WIN IT -

by following these simple rules.  You didn't really think there wouldn't be any, did you?

Mandatory - You must be a Cotton Pickin Cute follower and leave a comment telling me that you are a follower.

How about some extra entries?  Just be sure to leave a separate comment for each one, telling me what you did.  If it says 2 entries, please leave 2 comments.

• {2extra entries} Post a link back to this giveaway on your blog.
• Follow Cheerios on Facebook.
• {1 extra entry per tweet per day} Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter with @cottonpickincute. (see button at the bottom of this post)
• Follow Tracysuz (that's me) on Twitter (see button at the bottom of this post)
• Like or Friend Tracy Suzanne (that's me) on facebook (see button at the bottom of this post)
• {1 extra entry per post per day}Share this giveaway on your facebook page.

Be sure to leave your email address so that I can contact you if you win.  Please don't forget to leave a comment for each entry.

Giveaway ends on Nov 28th, at 11:59pm EST.

Good Luck! 

Disclosure: This giveaway is sponsored by MyBlogSpark and Cheerios, no monetary compensation was given.