
Check out some of our Thanksgiving decor ideas to spruce up your home for the big feast!
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This is from Shindig Parties - Love the rustic look!http://amandaparkerandfamily.blogspot.com/2010/11/tutorial-thanksgiving-burlap-corn-husk.html


Check out some of our Thanksgiving decor ideas to spruce up your home for the big feast!
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This is from Shindig Parties - Love the rustic look!http://amandaparkerandfamily.blogspot.com/2010/11/tutorial-thanksgiving-burlap-corn-husk.html

40 Fun Ideas for Your Fall Bucket List
Here is my Bucket List for Fall
(I have copied quite a few of her's because they are great ideas!)
DONE 1. Take time to witness the leaves turning brilliant colors -notice the golds, russets, and browns. (Apparently this activity is called leaf peeping.)
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ~Albert Camus
2. Jump into a pile of freshly-raked leaves.
3. Go for a walk and take in the clean, crisp autumn air.
4. Wear a funky hat. Chase it when the wind blows it off your head.
5. Enjoy the sound of leaves crinkling and crackling underneath your shoes.
DONE 6. Make caramel apples.
DONE -7. Decorate my house for fall
DONE -8. Collect golden autumn leaves and use them to decorate your dinner table, windowsills, or any other surface you choose.
DONE 9 - Buy some autmn lights and string them with garland around my windows.
DONE 10 - Make a fall cloche
DONE 11 - Be a part of the fall party blog carnivals
DONE 12. Go to your nearest apple orchard and look for the best apples to take home. (This will be in my own yard!!!)
13. Bake an apple pie–with a flaky, light, delicious crust–from scratch.
DONE 14. Get a large tub of water, fill it with apples, gather a fun group of people, and go bobbing for apples.
DONE 15. Build a bonfire and roast marshmallows. Make S’mores.
DONE 16. Select your favorite park, arboretum, or nature preserve and go on an autumn hike.
“It was one of those perfect English autumn days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.” ~ P.D. James.
17. Go on a hayride. Choose between horse and buggy or a truck-driven hayride.
DONE 18. Visit a pumpkin patch and choose several pumpkins to take home. (In my garden)
19. Make pumpkin cupcakes.
DONE 20. Roast pumpkin seeds.
DONE 21. Carve your own Jack-0-Lantern.
DONE 22. Attend a Fall Festival.
DONE 23. Make a Fall Wreath and hang it from your front door.
24. Enjoy some apple cider. Get yourself a warm mug of cider and sit out on the porch or balcony when it’s cool out.
25. Get some nutmeg, cinnamon sticks, vanilla beans, and cloves, and make Fall potpourri. Add pine cones, twigs, and dried flowers.
26. Smear peanut butter over a plain unpainted pine cone and roll it in bird seeds. Hang it in a tree with a bit of yarn and watch to see what birds it attracts.
DONE 27 - Decorate my front porch for fall and halloween
DONE 28. Decorate your home for Halloween.
DONE 29. Organize a Halloween party.
30. Go trick-or-treating.
31. Watch “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”.
DONE 32 - Gather seeds from garden for next spring
DONE 33. Listen to your favorite Halloween songs:
DONE 34. Get a big bag of fresh Brach candy corn - make some treat bags and gtive them away .
DONE 35 - Make 13 days before Halloween for our grandsons
DONE 36. Make a scarecrow (here’s a good tutorial).
37 - Dress up for Halloween
38. Have a Fall movie night marathon.
39. Set an elegant harvest table of Thanksgiving. Make a classic Thanksgiving meal. Remember to go around the table and have each person give thanks for at least one blessing they’ve received this year.
40. Watch “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”, in which Charlie Brown hosts a Thanksgiving meal in which he serves each of his friends the following:
http://abundance-blog.marelisa-online.com/2010/09/08/autumn-bucket-list/
Here is another resource:
Nacho Casserole
1 can(s) (10 3/4 ounces) Cheddar cheese soup, 1/2 cup(s) low-fat (1%) milk, 1 jar(s) (16 ounces) mild or medium-hot salsa, 1 bag(s) (7 ounces) Doritos, Taco meat, 1 can(s) (16 ounces) fat-free refried beans, 2 jalapeñño chiles, thinly sliced,1 cup(s) shredded Cheddar cheese
1. Preheat oven to 400° F. In 13" by 9" ceramic or glass baking dish, stir undiluted soup with milk; spread evenly. Top with half of salsa and half of chips. Carefully spread beans and taco meat over chips. Top with remaining chips and salsa. Sprinkle with chiles and Cheddar.
2. Bake 20 minutes or until hot.
Hot Sausage Dip
1 package sausage, 8 oz. cream cheese, 1 bottle salsa,
Brown sausage, mix with softened cream cheese and tomatoes. Heat through. Serve with corn chips.
Artichoke Dip
1 8 oz pkg softened cream cheese, ½ cup mayo, ½ cup parm cheese, garlic cloves, 1 can Maria’’s artichokes in water,
Mix and bake at 350° for 20 minutes
Cranberry Salad
2 cups water, 1 (6 ounce) package strawberry jello, 1 (10 ounce) package frozen strawberries, thawed, 1 (16 ounce) can whole cranberry sauce, 1/2 cup chopped pecans, 8 leaves lettuce , 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese, softened, 1 cup sour cream, 1/3 cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Boil the water and combine with the strawberry flavored gelatin mix in a medium bowl. Mix in the strawberries, cranberry sauce and pecans. Transfer to a 2 quart mold. Chill in the refrigerator 6 to 8 hours, or overnight.
Place the molded gelatin mixture on a serving plate and surround the base with lettuce leaves.
In a medium bowl, mix the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and lemon juice with an electric mixer until well blended. Use this mixture as a topping for each serving of salad.
Green Bean Casserole
2 (10.75 ounce) cans Cream of Chicken soup, 1 cup milk, 2 teaspoons soy sauce, 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, 8 cups cooked cut green beans, 2 2/3 cups French's®® French Fried Onions
Stir soup, milk, soy sauce, pepper, beans and 1 1/3 cups onions in 3-qt. casserole. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 25 min. or until hot. Stir. Top with remaining onions. Bake for 5 min. more.
Yams
5 sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced, 1/2 cup packed brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter, 2 tablespoons orange juice, 2 pinches ground cinnamon, 1 (10.5 ounce) package miniature marshmallows
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Boil sliced sweet potatoes in water until tender. Drain.
In a large bowl, blend the potatoes until creamy. Stir in the butter, brown sugar, orange juice to taste and a dash of ground cinnamon.
Spread the sweet potato mixture into a 9x13 inch pan. Sprinkle the miniature marshmallows over the top and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) until golden
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