Burlap ribbon color play for Thanksgiving

Hello, everyone.  It's Thanksgiving week in these USA and I was inspired to try some things.

Color Play in the dining room:

The runner was a Sewing Club project from way back, using fusible to applique the scrappy pumpkins. The ribbons (from Walmart crafts department,  I had dropped in to get Thanksgiving paper napkins and hit the crafts aisles on spec) are different widths and were cut to an appropriate length by eye.

Color Play at the breakfast nook:

The same ribbons,  draped on the light fixture. Note that the ribbons are not in contact with anything electric. The runner, which actually fits the 60 inch long table, has moved over also.

Yes that is the Spanish IGN map of all of the Caminos de Santiago on the wall. It's easy to refer to it , now that it's framed, when talking about routes or just daydreaming. 

Since there is still some burlap ribbon on the spools, I think there will be some burlap accents added to various small projects. 

To all of my American readers, I wish a happy and blessed Thanksgiving. To all of my readers, as the season of Advent is approaching fast, may you have a wondrous Advent and Christmas season.

Prepping for Thanksgiving

Hello, everyone.

We have wine corks. Oh, my, do we have wine corks. So when I saw the many, many wine cork craft ideas at Pinterest, I was very interested.

This week was the time to use up most of our wine corks on hand.

The 8 cork pumpkins are in one of the larger Amazon book boxes, the one that the Camino wall calendar came in. There isn't a lot of extra room besides the pumpkins!

The leaves are felt pieces, which I took the suggestions at Wee Folk Art to stabilize before cutting. It was a hand workout, but it went well.

The question now is whether the pumpkins should sit in their glory, unlabeled, at each place, or whether there should be name labels. (Our bunch is pretty laid-back, so I may skip the labels.)

And for a bonus, there are only 35 or so wine corks left on hand at the moment. Re-use for the win!