Thanksgiving Planning

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Decorate your homemade pies with this easy garnishing idea.

You can find the recipe details on Southern Living and myrecipes.com.

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I have a cake i need to decorate for thanksgiving, but i just can’t come up with any good ideas! I don’t want it to be anything normal.. it has to impress!
Something like you’d see on Ace of cakes or Cake boss!

This would be a really elegant presentation.

Start with a white or yellow cake with maple nut or caramel frosting, something cream colored. You could also make a buttercream or cream cheese frosting that you add food color to. You could even do chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting. Whatever…just so your cake and frosting go well together, and your frosting is a light tan color.

Then make some basic harvest shaped stencils. You can probably trace cookie cutter insides onto a large piece of poster board. Pumpkins, leaves, pilgrim hats, whatever. As much as possible, use large cardboards with small (3-4 inch) shapes, about 12 inches apart, so you have an easier time protecting your cake.

Then prepare a few small baggies of granulated or powdered sugar. Create a different color in each bag using different combinations of food colors, to yield brown, yellow, orange, red, and cream colors. Seal and shake each color to mix. You want colors that stand out nicely from your frosting without clashing. You can also add cinnamon, all spice, etc to some of the powdered sugars (if it goes with your cake and frosting flavors), and if you want some texture, you can use some coconut.

Then using the buddy system, have one person hold the stencil very still over the cake (not touching), while the other person sprinkles sugar into the opening with a small screen-scoop. Then change stencils, and sugars, and repeat. You can layer them like a collage but don’t overlap or get carried away so much that you lose each image. You will probably have best results if you layer your darker sugars on the bottom but this is not a hard and fast rule.

This is best for a 9×13 or jelly roll or sheet cake. You can make a layer cake but only the top can be stenciled. If you do a layer cake, you could press handfulls of graham crumbs or coconut or anything…into the sides. Do this last so it covers up any mess from the sugar stenciling.

If you try this, I would love to hear how it turns out!

Here are some quick and easy centerpiece ideas for your Thanksgiving table.

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My husband and I just moved into a house from an apartment and this is our first time hosting the family for Christmas (Yea!).

I have been seeing Christmas decorations since before Halloween, but I always thought you were supposed to wait until AFTER Thanksgiving to decorate.

Is that no longer the social norm? Should I wait?

My family has always done it the weekend of Thanksgiving – I had no idea some people would do it before!

I suppose it depends on where you live. If you’re in a place where it’s bitterly cold and/or snowy by Thanksgiving, then I can hardly blame people for trying to get Christmas decorations up as early as possible. Otherwise, though, no, I don’t get that…

If you’re used to waiting, and aren’t particularly in a hurry to get your decorations up, then sure, wait. There’s no real "social norm" about when you have to decorate for Christmas – although I will say that your neighbors would probably be annoyed if you did it in, say, September! But now isn’t too early, if you really want to get them up. It’s totally up to you and what you feel like doing.

Set a perfectly beautiful Thanksgiving Table! This step-by-step guide from Julie Mulligan shows you just what to do to create an unforgettable table this Thanksgiving Day! In this video, Julie teaches how to create beautiful placemats using fresh flowers. For more great ideas from Julie, visit http://blog.1800flowers.com/julie

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Learn how choose a color scheme when decorating for Thanksgiving from a home décor expert in this free Thanksgiving video.

Expert: Matt Cail
Contact: www.homepaintings.biz
Bio: Matt Cail is an artist who works in oil, water color and acrylic paints, among others.
Filmmaker: randy primm

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Learn how to make a traditional Thanksgiving cornucopia with these easy steps.

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Creative ways to make your Thanksgiving table more festive. Great ideas using common household items.

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If you’re looking to create a pretty table and centerpiece for Thanksgiving but don’t want to fork out a lot of money for the décor, there are crafty ways to do it. Lisa Robinson shows you how.

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Learn how to when decorating for Thanksgiving from a home décor expert in this free Thanksgiving video.

Expert: Matt Cail
Contact: www.homepaintings.biz
Bio: Matt Cail is an artist who works in oil, water color and acrylic paints, among others.
Filmmaker: randy primm

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