We’re talking Homemade Magic today.💖 Do come along, won’t you? MUSICA!
Thought I would talk about the magic of this season . . . We’re all going to be making some this next week (and month)!
We’re cooking up some magic at home and taking it to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving this year! I’m making my heavenly Pumpkin Cheesecake (you can make this gluten free by making one change in the recipe, use gluten-free ginger snaps for the crust, and voila!)
I’m also making my Sweet Potato Casserole ⬆️ a wonderful recipe which I sometimes serve in mini pumpkins . . . 
But this time I’m just baking it in a casserole dish so it’s easier for travel. (Like my apron? Quite the garment! No mistaking the holiday!)🎃
I’m also providing the cranberry sauce which I almost force them to let me do because I love this simple recipe so much, to me it sparkles ~ plus I’ll make extra for my must-have-for-the-holidays, Christmas Jam. Both recipes are below:
I get to jump over it this year, because they are making the turkey!
And we’ll taste someone else’s “idea” of stuffing 😱 but we’ll be brave, it’s good for us, makes us better people. But Joe has gathered the ingredients to add some extra gravy to the general good.
I’m not making Rainbow Jell-O this year because we’ll be all adults (and one new baby!) but if you’re having kids at your table, this is a wonderful recipe for them to put in their forever memory banks. It’s kid food, and they know it and I believe, feel grateful for it. But trust me, big kids like it too! 
This was our dinner last year, the leftovers looked almost as good as when we put the dinner on the table! We tried to make enough for every one to have leftovers to-go!
I thought you might like a few photos of Holidays-passed, of some of my decorated table ideas . . .
This was a casual dinner we had at the kitchen table using my old mix-and-match pottery collection, and the antique black-iron candlesticks I found somewhere along the way. (No marks on the bottom of these, I’m sorry to say, would love to tell you where they come from!)
Candlelight makes everything look better! More romantic, prettier colors, softer light, the food even tastes better in candlelight! And a little poem or a prayer written on a menu stand helps to set the tone. Because Thanksgiving is so wonderfully about gratitude and memory.
Cookbooks, wooden spoons, and recipe boxes (with mom and grandma’s handwriting on recipe cards) make evocative Thanksgiving table decorations. I love using stuff I have around the house. A table with lots of little framed 
photos works too. Makes for lots of happy conversation. Also, you can make placemats out of old photos (enlarge on copier), that’s fun too ~ you can even use them as place cards, “find your photo and that’s where you sit”. (I’ve forgotten to take pictures of my table settings in the past, I try not to let that happen anymore!)
Pile together a few of your favorite things, collections, or family memories, interesting things to look at that relate to you and yours . . . the little shoes, remember from my book? I wrote how I found them in the attic at Holly Oak, left behind by Agnes, my secret guardian angel. Now there she is, on our Thanksgiving table.
More found objects . . . Leaves and pinecones make perfect place cards!
Small low vases of flowers are good too, you can see over them! See the candlestick with the star bobeche? I found those bobeche years ago and LOVE them, I bring them out any time I need a starry night!🕯
I always use them for the holidays, but in the summer too, under the stars . . .
I looked for them for years to put in our web store, but never found them. Off and on, I’ve managed to get people to make them for us, but they’ve been very hard to get. See how you set the bobeche on top of the candle stick?⬆️
And then the candle slips through the hole and into the stick ~ 🕯
Voila! Anyway, I finally found a new manufacturer! And this time I had them made from lightweight acrylic, just like the ones I found so many years ago. In case you need some starry light on your holiday tables!🕯
Bobeche! Here’s how they look without the candles. And, something special, to celebrate this wonderful season . . .
For YOU! YES, leave a comment at the end of this post, and we’ll have a drawing, and see who is going to be the winner of this pair of starry bobeche!
I love it when they play Little Women on TV on Thanksgiving. It’s such perfect background “music.” Reminds me of simpler days and the things that really matter. The smell of dinner cooking is enough to set the entire mood of the day. And isn’t it wonderful, it’s not about gifts?! Only the little ones that really count. Like home. And P.S. Something special for PLU (people like us) . . . LOOK what’s coming this Christmas! 
Because magic can come in very small packages. It doesn’t have to be fancy. All this decorating is nice, if you have the time, and are in the mood, but there are no rules. Just one little pumpkin on a porch or a kitchen table is lovely and festive and says it all. That, a roasted chicken, a baked apple, a little candle, and a prayer is all we need.
And the day after Thanksgiving, while filled to overflowing with gratitude and contentment and pumpkin pie, and blessed by everything we have, feed your soul in nature on Green Friday. I fear we are teaching our children greed by celebrating consumerism the day after Thanksgiving. Instead, teach magic, take your spirit and your kids to the sky . . .
Because God made the dirt roads, the woods, and the critters and gave them to us has His gift. And it’s our job to take care of them for Him. Honor them for Him.
Quiet places with wind and bird sounds fill your heart with thanks and wash the stress away. (Would you like to read my Love Letter to Martha’s Vineyard? In your spare time!)
A wonderful gift from the sea, free! And we didn’t have to stand in line under klieg lights to get it!
The pause that refreshes. The sound of snowfall is good for you!
The gift that keeps on giving. Other things to do besides 
hugging trees that cause magic: have a turkey-sandwich, pumpkin-pie picnic outside, or surprise the lady down the street and have your whole family go to her house and plant bulbs. (I’ll give you my address!) Bring someone who’s stuck inside OUT, and take them to nature. Adopt a new petty pet! 💖 Or,
Cuddle in front of a fire . . .
Dreaming of a better tomorrow? Let it show in everything you do.💞 We are so lucky!
Here’s a Thanksgiving Prayer bookmark, for you to print out, just click there. I’ve memorialized the childhood prayer Joe “sang” to me when we first met. (Suzy, Nosey, Inky, and so on, were his family’s pets!❤️)
And don’t forget to leave a comment for the starry bobeches. Blessings on you and yours darling friends! Have the MOST wonderful Thanksgiving.🎃 
Peace and many blessings to youSusan and your family❤️
I automatically relax when I see your art and read your words!
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday as it is about family, food and fun. No gifts necessary.
“Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar or” read Susan Branch’s most wonderful blog❤️Wishing you a happy Thanksgiving from Canada! Growing up we celebrated American Thanksgiving, as my dear Canadian Grandmother had married and moved to Bellingham Washington ( still love Bellingham!) and Canadian Thanksgiving – Double thankfulness. Love my Susan Branch wall calendar every day🙏
With Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving!!
Laura Lee North Vancouver, British Columbia
Thanks for the chance to win the gift.
I’m so lucky my sister makes a wonderful dinner for us. There’s nothing like your own family stuffing recipe. As tasty as your friend’s stuffing will be, I bet you’ll end up making your own sometime before the end of the year.
I have no doubt. I think a stuffed chicken is in our future. It’s delicious in chicken too! Nothing like family stuffing, it’s like family humor, one of a kind.
Happy Thanksgiving ! beautiful pictures , so inspiring . Maybe I have written this before , I see the “Little Brown Church in the Vale” written on the ceramic menu stand , it actual exists ! In Iowa ! Our pastor left our church in Michigan years ago to pastor at the Little Brown Church in the Vale !! He was there for several years , they do weddings non stop a few every day at that little church ! A Happy memory for me .
I looked it up on the Internet, wished to see what it looked like, it is little, it is brown and it’s in a vale!
V. sweet!
Psalm 100:4–“Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!”
Always a visit with sanity and calmness when your missives arrive! Thankful for you and your gifts of creativity, Susan….🙂❤️
I am always happy when your blog comes and I can sit down and enjoy it. I would love to win the starry bobeches. Holiday blessings for you Susan, Joe and Jack.
Wonder filled Thanksgiving thoughts with great decorations and recipes inspiring to gratitude and Thanksgiving for our many blessings!!
Love Thanksgiving!!
Susan, Joe, and Jack…Happiest Thanksgiving Ever….from Western PA.
As always your delightful sharing of your recipes and table decorations are much appreciated, So Fun! Thank You !
I love your table settings with all the unique items they make me smile,
Happy Thanksgiving.
A happy and blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours! And thank you for “Green Friday”–I love it!!
Instead of them telling US what to do, we might start telling THEM! xoxo No more lemmingland from the heart of the home.
What a lovely post! I love your apron. And I love the idea of cookbooks and old recipes as decoration on the table. Thanks, as always, for sharing a little joy with us all, especially when the world seems so dark. 🙂
Thank you, as always, Miss Susan for “brightening” our day with starry bobeches (a new word for me!).
Thankful for you and all of “yours”!
We need to remember what is important and you are such a good reminder of all that is important to make life special.
Have a most wonderful Thanksgiving holiday to you from all of us in Maine.
I’m planning to make your cranberry sauce recipe again. ❤️
Happy Thanksgiving! I so enjoy your books and just bought your 2020 calendar, which is a must have each year. Thankful I found you back in the eighties.
Happy Thanksgiving! I enjoy reading your blogs.
I am sooo disappointed that you are not making this years stuffing. I love seeing the bread drying out on the ironing board! I have shared many holidays with you and Joe and this is one of my fondest memoirs……reminds me so much of my Gram who grew up in London. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.. Kathleen
It will make it even better next year!😀
I’m making your Sweet Potato Pie! Our family loves it more than Pumpkin Pie.
Thank you for the heads up on Little Women movie. Also, I love your love for the simple and the yummy and God’s great gift of nature!
This year my daughter in law is doing our Thanksgiving feast! I’m so excited! And, we have a most precious granddaughter who is just 3 months old! The blessings from heaven are so sweet! Happy Thanksgiving Susan!
Blessings continuously abound whenever you share your gifts with us all, Susan! Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe! ( and Jack! Does he get to have a nibble of Turkey?)
Funny thing about Jack, so far he has shown zero interest in people food. Not even lobster!!! Cats are such original people, no two alike!
How easy is that Cranberry Sauce recipe! Can’t wait to make it. Happy Thanksgiving!
SO easy. And after years of testing oranges and stirring for hours, this really hits the sweet spot. Easy, GORGEOUS COLOR, and delicious!
Wonderful post, your decorating and pictures as always, are great. I would love the starry bobeches. I am going to try your cranberry sauce and then the jam, sounds delish. Thanks so much.
Dear Susan,
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful art (watercolors and cooking) and for reminding me that there is something to be grateful for in every day. The End. Amen.
The end. Amen. 😘
I love your posts, they always lift my spirits! Happy Thanksgiving.
Thank you for the heartfelt post containing so much gratitude! With all of the crazy things going on around us everyday, it’s easy to get distracted with all the hoopla. Just remembering that all good things come from God and that He is control brings me peace and comfort. Thank you for the beauty you share.
I believe God gave us LOTS of choices, to be good, to be helpful, to be honest, to be true. So although he is in control, so are we. There’s a wonderful old quote “Pray to God, but continue to row toward shore.”
The “little brown church in the vale” song always brings to mind an episode of Andy Griffith–love that show! I watch it every weeknight even though I’ve seen the reruns dozens of times. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I like your posts and books so much–they bring back wonderful memories and also keep them in the here and now. Your homey corner of the world is always surrounding us with warmth! Thanks so much!
Susan & Joe: So thankful that I’ve found your blog & books & grateful for all my blessings. Happy Thanksgiving – enjoy your day with your friends & the delicious food.
I love that genuine tree hug-its a wonderful snap. Peace and quiet is needed
as I am overwhelmed with the noise of it all. A walk in the woods is just the
ticket!
There is a quote I love that says, “Never live faster than your guardian angels can fly.” We are only human, which is a very wonderful thing to be, if we can just learn not to hurt ourselves with it!
Bless you and Joe! Happy Thanksgiving to you both!
Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoyed your blog
Susan, I always get excited and light up when I see your blog waiting in my email. You are always so uplifting. I showed my hubby the picture of you hugging the tree (we are big tree huggers also) and he said, “Oh, what a beautiful tree. Can you imagine the stories it has? I’d love to hug that one.”
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your Joe and the kitties.
It was quite huggable! Sort of hugged back!
Thanks for all of your lovely bits and bobs and for reminding us the holidays can be very simple. It’s the spirit in our hearts that matters. A very happy and peaceful Thanksgiving to all!
Happy Thanksgiving!
The starry bobeches are so special, they would be the perfect accompaniment to my star holders.
Susan, as always a beautiful post. I have made your delightful rainbow jello for many, many years…it is my grandson’s absolutely favorite request-always for his birthday-and all of the holidays, I started making it when he was just a little guy, and now he just celebrated his 19th birthday, and the rainbow jello is the highlight of the dinner. Happy, blessed Thanksgiving
Bless you and Joe this wonderful Thanksgiving day. I love your messages because they are of simple fun things. Hugs my friendship
Such a lovely blog about my favorite holiday. I would absolutely LOVE to win the bobeches (she says with fingers crossed). Can’t wait to see the new Little Women. Such a Christmas treat! Wishing a wonderful Thanksgiving to you and Joe. Anne
I am very thankful for you…and your recipes… and your artwork… and your wonderful blog. I hope you have an absolutely delicious Thanksgiving! Much love and many hugs and be sure and give Jack a squinch from me. Kerrie
Dear Susan, Your beautiful blog always lifts my spirits. Thank you! I like the photo placemat idea but am not sure how to make them-am not as clever as you. A tip would be appreciated. Your pumpkin-gingersnap cheesecake looks scrumptious! Enjoy your holiday.
Gratefully, Julia
Thank you Susan! I want you to know that you inspired me to go to Concord to Louisa May Alcott’s home whenever I read one of your books. I went to a conference in Boston a number of years ago and was determined to visit the place that inspired Little Women and fortunately for me I found someone named Jo to split the cab fare with me to Concord. And our driver was so nice he turned off of the meter and told us to spend as much time as we liked in the house and gift shop. So sweet. I did want to put some books on your radar (they also make great Christmas gifts)–have you ever heard of the Jolly Postman books? There are three I think; the Jolly Postman, The Jolly Christmas Postman and the Jolly Pocket Postman. All adorable. Happy Thanksgiving!
Yes, Orchard House, isn’t it wonderful? Didn’t you love the owl over the fireplace painted by Louisa’s sister? I’m so glad you were able to go, and what a WONDERFUL cab driver. I took your advice and just ordered the Christmas book for my nephew! I think he will love it!
Susan, thank you, thank you for writing and illustrating generously each time you post. This, especially lovely leaving heads and hearts flooded with ideas and inspiration.
I love your thankful attitude. Have a wonderful pumpkin pie day!
Love the black iron candle holders! I made Candied Orange peel this week for the third year in a row. I can eat it right out of the jar!! So good!! As I was sorting out recipes for the various holiday feasts, I pulled out the Cranberry Coffee Cake with Vanilla Sauce recipe so we can make it again for Christmas breakfast! They are traditions at our house now. Thank you!! Blessing to you and yours!
The delight of finding you “note” in my email; enchanting! Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you again Susan, for another lovely post. Homey pictures of hearth and home are so inspiring. Beautiful table settings with candles and great food, friends and family makes for a feeling of Thankfulness that we can enjoy the freedom we somehow take for granted. You Susan make us mindful of what we have. Thank you again for all that you do and you give that to us for Free.
Lovely just lovely. Thank You and Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving, dear Susan. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. All the lovely food of Christmas without the pressure to buy the perfect gift. Hug your dear Joe for me. He looks so much like my Johnnie, they could be brothers!
I just cannot believe Thanksgiving is next week! My granddaughter told me today that she has next week off and will be here to help me with all the Thanksgiving prep. She is such a great cook and it will be so much fun. She has spent almost all of her 22 Thanksgivings at our house and now it will be fun to pass down all the secrets knowing that someday she will be doing this for her family. We are hoping to have Dinner on the porch this year! Friday, we opt outside!! We will be headed to The Christmas Tree Farm to pick out a tree and a wreath!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe and all the Girlfriends.
I remember calling my mom and saying, “Now tell me what we have?” And writing down a list, turkey, mashed potatoes, etc etc … and keeping it in a recipe box so I would make sure not to forget anything. She was ON the phone for dressing-making! Happy Thanksgiving Chris, one and all!
Happy Thanksgiving Susan and Joe. I look forward to reading your blog and sipping tea.
Susan.. did you know that there is a new version of Little Women coming to theaters on Christmas Day ? Looks like it will be great !!💕
Love your posts! Always informative, entertaining, and I learn something new. May you have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Hi Susan! Happy Thanksgiving❤️ Are you looking forward to the new adaptation of Little Women opening on Christmas at the movies?
Yes, I cried watching the trailer! Very excited to see what new they add to it. It looks like they are letting the true soul of Louisa May Alcott (in real life) shine through in this one!
Happy Thanksgiving to you & Joe! I always made Ribbon Jello for Thanksgiving for my four children & it was their favorite dish to eat. Now I’ve passed on the tradition to my 14 year old granddaughter, Sophia. She is so proud to be able to help contribute a dish to the family feast.
Enjoyed your Thanksgiving post – thoughts, recipes and pictures. The starry bobeches are beautiful.
Happy Thanksgiving Susan, Joe and Jack. We’ve already celebrated our Thanksgiving here in Canada but no reason not to celebrate again. You can never be too grateful. Hugs, Elaine
HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🍁
I ❤️ reading your posts. Happy Thanksgiving!
“Dream of a better tomorrow and let it show in everything we do.” Thank you for these beautiful Thanksgiving thoughts, Susan.
Starry bobeches. Wonderful! You know how to put us in that warm, welcoming Thanksgiving mood. Love looking at your holiday table settings, too. Happy Thanksgiving. 💕
Starry bobeche – yes please! What a wonderful gift it was to find your post today. I was satisfied with the recent Willard, when SURPRISE! There you were again🌼Thank you for making my day.
Happy Thanksgiving Susan and Joe!
Thanks for a wonderful blog post. I sure do enjoy reading about all your ideas.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Many of your recipes will be at my table along with our embroidered family tablecloth. Every year any new member or guest signs our tablecloth. We have 20 years of wonderful signatures, handprints and sentiments from the past, some still here, some no longer with us. This year as I put my hand inside my dearest dad’s handprint, I’ll smile for him and then we will add the newest member to our table~-10 month old Caleb. The children love it and the adults can’t wait to see it each Thanksgiving. Enjoy your most wonderful traditions.
Irene (Elizabeth says Hi too!)
Perfectly wonderful. Your hand in your dad’s, I love that. 🙏
I have always admired those cast iron colonial man and woman candle holders that you have. I stay on the look out for them in antique stores. I also love the star bobeches. Thank you for some wonderful table setting ideas!
Aaah, this lovely post caused me to relax a little. Just what I needed. How did you know?! I hope you and Joe have a lovely Thanksgiving. xoxo
Your wonderful posts really are my secret little happy place where I can steal away and be transported to a slower time and pace! I love little touches like the bobeches. I once found lovely tablecloth weights, in France, that are small glass grape clusters with a clip to hold down the picnic tablecloth and they remind me of the bobeches. Pure luxury in such a small thing!
Thanks for the Thanksgiving hug…wishing you snuggles over the holidays.
Again, you blow me away! Our family of 3 sisters are having a very hard health time so we are having our holidays right away. I’m so glad you shared your sweet potato casserole recipe. I will be so happy to make that. My heart is touched by your blog. Have a very happy thanksgiving. 🍁🍂linda
Blessings on you all Linda, xoxoxo😘
Susan, such a wonderful post for Thanksgiving day! It sounds like you and Joe are going to have a wonderful Thanksgiving shared with friends. We are having Thanksgiving with my elderly mother, our grown sons, our daughters inlaws, and grandchildren.There is so much to be thankful for each and every day! I always look forward to reading your post and enjoy them very much, they usually have such a nostalgic feel to them. I also appreciate your decorating for the holidays and your recipes. By the way, because of you, I started a Beatrix Potter collection of figurines for my granddaughters. I always admired your story of collecting them and displaying them in your kitchen window sill. Thank you for sharing a part of your life with us your readers.
Love all your imaginative table settings. Just makes me smile. Happy Thanksgiving.
Love the layered Jello. It would make the grandchildren’s eyes sparkle!
Lovely Susan and sweet Joe, thanks for this post as I contemplate another Thanksgiving. We are blessed beyond measure surely when others aren’t but must wait to celebrate on Friday instead due to children having other obligations. It does serve to avoid a bit of the Black Friday conundrum though. I’m going to try the yummy Cranberries this year! Nobody in my family likes them so I get them all to myself! I’m searching for a gluten and dairy free version of pumpkin cake so I’d better get started…..happy Thanksgiving to you and yours..
I enjoy reading your posts! Happy Thanksgiving to you & Joe!
Susan, I always leave here feeling so light-hearted after my visit with your words…..you are a definite ‘Cheer’! While our Thanksgiving celebrations were back in October, I do hold a kinship with our dear neighbours across the border and their preparations for ‘everything grateful’…..God Bless you, Joe and all your dearones Susan; Happy Thanksgiving.
Barb.
Have a beautiful Thanksgiving! We are not too chilly here in Georgia, would love a little snow this year.
I am excited to be making your stuffing for the first time and already made your sweet potatoes and froze them to get ahead of things. We will have 17 people. Love your blog, decor ideas and recipes. The star bobeches are dreamy! Thanks for sharing with us!
Love the Green Friday idea. What better way to continue Thanksgiving than appreciating what nature gives us.
So charmed by your blog. You can always see, taste, smell, hear and feel after reading your words. You are so gifted. Thank the Lord for you Susan and the gifts He has given you to share with us. Bless Him for you and thank you Susan for sharing these gifts from God. God Bless you and all our Girlfriends!
Happy Thanksgiving! Your table settings always give me great ideas! Thank you. I have a picture of my Dad sitting on that same horse!!! I believe it was taken at Knott’s Berry Farm. Their is another picture of the family sitting in a covered wagon. We loved going to Knott’s Berry Farm as a child as my Aunt and Uncle lived near there off of Beach Blvd.
I have us in the covered wagon too!🤣
Happy Thanksgiving! Always a joy to open the email to your newest blog post. What joy it brings! What a blessing you and your work are to us all. Happy Holidays to you, Joe and your families.
Dear Susan and Joe,
Have a most blessed Thanksgiving.
Fondly,
Debbie from Eastampton, NJ
Such a beautiful post once again Susan, thank you. Love the Green Friday reminder & all of your photos are amazing, but the one with you hugging that glorious tree ~ and this might sound silly, but I can see its “face” lol ~ two eyes above your head and you leaning into its beard. 🤗So magical. Thank you, & many bountiful blessings your way. ♥️🧡♥️🧡♥️🧡♥️🧡♥️
I would love to be the proud recipient of the bobeches to grace my little table in our RV. It’s such a cozy place and the reflection of candlelight would make it perfect!
As usual….you make me feel all warm and cozy. It puts me right back to when I was young. I LOVE memories!!!!😍❤️❤️❤️
Please tell Vanna to dive deep for me !! Have a wonderful holiday !!
Mmm!!! Your cranberry orange 🍊 marmalade sounds wonderful! Thanks for the hint. It will be great on scones with coffee in my brand new mug! 😉
Happy Thanksgiving from the foothills of the Canadian 🇨🇦 Rockies.
What a surprise to learn the name of my Halloween candlestick toppers!
My husband, sister and her husband and myself visited Yosemite National park a few years ago and we stopped in a small town not far from the park and there they were. Instead of stars dangling there are black cats, witches and pumpkins. surrounding the bobeches. Since Halloween is almost my most favorite holiday I knew I had to have them and it gives me pleasure to put them out each year. I never knew this style had a name – what fun!
Enjoyed your “lifter upper” message today.
I love your down-to-earth posts. They are so delightfully “normal” – what daily life is supposed to be – so refreshing and comforting. And your recipes are enticing!
Beautiful bobeche!! Stars 🌟 I love them. Haven’t seen many over the years but they are so very practical because they keep the hot dripping wax from melting on you at a candlelight vigil. Happy Thanksgiving!! 🦃🍽🍁 🎇
Susan, just a quick note to say hello. Its late, but I finally had a moment to sit quietly, and read your lovely post. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!
Bobeches, what a great word. Count me in for the drawing. I would love to say “dear, hand me the bobeches”.
LOL!
I am thankful for you, Susan Branch, for sharing with us your multi-talented self through your books and through your posts. I love how you inspire us, motivate us and demonstrate for us how to make our everyday world more beautiful and meaningful.
Wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving feast❤️
Your blog is always inspirational. I Love the idea for old photo placemats, cranberry sauce added to orange marmalade & the bobliches. I’d never heard of them before! And like Joe, I use to sing my prayers as a child too, including our pets! “God bless Mommy & Daddy & Connie, Tracy & Sandy & Bridgett & Brandi & Tinker & all the other animals too, Amen”.
Perfect!
Love the bobeche! Thanks for the Thanksgiving tips and recipes.
Your blog post are like a mini vacation – lovely thoughts, beautiful photos, yummy recipes, and lots of good common sense (seems in short supply all too often!) and we so need the happiness. Thank you!
For the last several years your mini calendars have graced my sewing room in Virginia, the sewing room of a quiltie friend in TX, and the craft room of a dear friend across the ocean near Southampton, UK. We love seeing the same pictures each month and the calendars help us stay heart to heart though the miles between us be all too many.
Love Joe’s childhood prayer and will say his family far exceeded ours in pets! We had Shep, Punkin, KC (Kitty Cat), Daisy, Boots, Boog, Winnie, Tom, and Tobey. That’s a lifetime total!
Hugs!
Family pet names are wonderful! We had Nipper, our dog!
Ohhh my! What a wonderful blog post full of yummy recipes, how wonderful! And even though I’ll be joining friends for a luncheon feast on Wednesday, I’ll be making my own turkey just so I can have the stuffing. For me, it’s all about the stuffing. Everyone else can have pie. The sparkly stars would look lovely on my mom’s glass candlesticks. Please pick me!
Stuffing and gravy with cranberries on the side, Oooo la wee!
Love this post. Years ago growing up we went to my maternal Grandparents every Sunday. My Greatgrandmother was there too. All holidays were also spent there. My Grandmother was a head cook by trade at the Y.W.C.A. dining room. She served many hundreds of people every day…yet still loved to cook for family every Sunday. It was wonderful. She fell on the ice one winter and injured her brain. Paralyzed. ..the meals ended.
But the lovely memories never will. xoxoxo
Susan, you are delightful! I went to Woodstock GA a few years ago when you were there and it was so good to meet you and Joe. Would love for you to come again. Just to hear you speak is magical! I am thankful for a wonderful escape and for the inspiration to do something new or revive something old. Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you Martha! Maybe we’ll get to come back with the next book. 💞
Love the table dressings and such fabulous ideas for Thanksgiving day!!! I love the feel and smell as fresh snow but missed terrible since living in the west!!! Just love your blog!!!!