Thanksgiving week is such an exciting time. My work office is beginning to empty with those traveling to meet with family or those off to a sunnier, warmer destination. We started the holidays early this year with a Friendsgiving a few weeks ago. With two more dinners coming up over the few days, I wanted to take a moment and share a special craft from our night with our dear friends.
Although we were unable to provide the meeting space this year due to our apartment's limited space, one of my close friends offered up his space, which is slightly larger and provides ample parking. I promise him that I would do my best to help him host this special event for our friends. With each decision I made, I wanted to ensure that I was staying true to my heart's desire of hospitality and not entertaining. Because of this, we kept the dishes simple and the table decor even more simple.
First, I took some pumpkins that we had at our house from a previous 5k freebie in the early part of October. I paired them with some metallic gold spray paint from last Christmas craft. Perfection. Secondly, while digging through my craft drawer for a glue gun one night, I found a couple of handfuls of loose leaves from my fall wreath project. Wonderful. Some white, standard table disposable table clothes and $14 on burlap runners at Wal-Mart... Awesome.
At the last second, I decided I want to do one more easy, simple thing. I already had a huge stuck of brown paper lunch bags left over from a wedding project years ago. So with some scissors, a printer, and some tape, I created these utensil holders! They added the extra special touch to the table and did not take much time at all!
Overall, our Friendsgiving was a huge success. A night full of food, drinks, and laughter. It seems to be more and more time in between when we can get together without the noise of the world and just chat and appreciate each other.
Below is the printable to make your own utensil holder if you wish! Printing on brown paper bags sometimes can be tricky. I first cut the sides and bottoms off of the bag, leaving both sides left. I would suggest printing it on standard white paper first, and then taping the paper bag according to the white paper to help feed it through the printer. Some of the brown paper bags would catch in the print, so some words of advice is just to keep calm and cut out some extras in anticipation of this.
Happy Thanksgiving!
:: This blog was inspired by Craftaholics Anonymous. ::
photo credit :: hb fotographie
