It’s possible that I may be considering putting a turkey on the other side too..

The set belonged to her mother and no one else in the family was interested in it, so I was able to put it to good use and it made the table setting a little more meaningful too!.I’ll have to share more about those dishes with you in the future.

I’m pretty fascinated with it right now..This picture turned out pretty blurry, but you get a sense of things..I always try to keep the middle of the table pretty simple.

My family lets me play Martha Stewart on holidays and I don’t want to scare them off by doing anything too over-the-top.I stick with what works for us and that’s usually a table runner, some tea lights, and some other little things scattered about.

Also, I think salt and pepper shakers that are a little confusing as to which one’s which and where it comes out are starting to be expected..

I can hardly use this new-fangled camera thing, but somehow I seem to have figured out bokeh.For our fire pit, which we were also given.

Again, I ask, why am I so lucky?.This is a big deal, because, you see, these are my dream fire pit chairs.

I’ve been planning to have them around a fire pit for years and was hoping that at the end of the season one year when the time was right I’d have saved enough to buy a couple and even if they were a horrendous color, I would just paint them white myself.. Then one day, bam, here they are!.So of course my mind is racing with all the potential in this little area of the yard now.. Something about these chairs makes everything feel crisp and fresh, even in the middle of all the construction, or rather deconstruction, mess going on everywhere..