You have everything to make your Thanksgiving feast, but you just realized that your dining room table has nothing to complement the holiday spread. Now what?
All is not lost. Simply gather a few items from around your home to make these easy last-minute seasonal decorations:
LEAVES
Fill a galvanized container with oversized leaves (such as magnolia). Make sure the stems aren’t all the same length. The arrangement should mimic the natural, free-flowing form of the leaves themselves.
CANDLES
Collect several small glass jars or vases and fill them with dried corn. Then, nestle fall-colored candles of differing heights into each vase and place around your home.
NAPKIN RINGS
Fill cloth or thick paper napkins with utensils, roll and secure with artificial wired berries. Then, place some of the same berries around your table centerpiece so the napkin rings act as accents.
FLOWERS
Single Flower Centerpiece. Simple centerpieces can add plenty of pizzazz to your Thanksgiving table, especially if you are short on time on Turkey Day. To keep it easy yet elegant, consider placing a single flower (such as an orchid or protea) in a vase on a silver tray surrounded by votive candles.
Multi-Flower Centerpiece. Another approach to keeping centerpieces simple is to use what you have in your backyard—-literally. Head outside and gather colorful autumn leaves and seasonal blossoms, such as mums. Place the bright leaves and flowers in vases of assorted colors and heights and use them to decorate your holiday table.
FRUIT
If your backyard is bare look in your refrigerator for inspiration. This centerpiece features fruit and flowers and can be put together while your turkey is cooking.
Materials:
Large pedestal bowl
Plastic liner to fit in bottom of bowl
Block of florists’ foam
Wooden toothpicks
Assorted fruit — apples, oranges, peaches, grapes, pears, etc.
Greenery
Fresh flower—roses, carnations, calla lilies, etc.
Directions:
Place plastic liner in bottom of bowl.
Cut florists’ foam to fit liner.
Thoroughly soak foam and place in bowl.
Insert toothpicks into fruit and stick them into foam starting with largest pieces of fruit and ending with the smallest.
Fill edges of arrangement and spaces in between fruit with greenery.
Insert flowers between fruit and greenery.
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