It's Thursday: Part #1

  Last night we had a small dinner party because we had a

turkey that was screaming to get out of our freezer.  

 Someplace in this house I have a box of napkins which I

couldn't find to save my soul ... so I decided it was easier to make

a set of 8 from two yards of fabric than to keep searching for

that box.  These were so easy to make I have plans to

make a scottie holiday table runner with a set of matching 

napkins for one of the rescue auctions.  

As an fyi these auctions do very well.  I contributed two

items to Westie Rescue in Tennessee ... a set of flannel scottie

pillowcases {went for $33} & one fish tote bags {went for $20}.

The final tally for that auction was close to $12,000!

 I'm having trouble with Blogger and/or Verizon

so that's why I divided today's post into two parts. 

  Our dinner was a pretty typical of what we cook for

Thanksgiving.  Everyone loved having comfort food

in the middle of summer so not much was left over.

 Our neighbor made his mothers recipe for chocolate 

chiffon pie for dessert ... it was excellent!

 We just picked fabric for the dining room box valances.  

Our interior designer suggested this instead of full length drapes 

due to the corner cabinet being in that spot.  He was concerned

that the curtains could not be pushed back off the window.

 Flowers from the yard.

Flowers from the grocery which I made into a center piece.