Happy Thanksgiving

 Hi everyone.  Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate. And of course, happy Thursday to all of you.

Today is one of my favorite holidays. I like it because it's low key, and it involves good food. 😏

Plus, the important stuff. It's the small things in life that make it so valuable and meaningful. Thank you to all of your bloggers who visit my blog. You share so much good advice, tips, tricks, new ideas, great books, recipes, friendship, entertainment and also many other things I could go on about.

I am also thankful for so many other things in my life, but I won't bore you with them here.

I combined both Nature and a bit of history on my journal page today. I started with a sheet of autumn colored paper. Then I added this outline of a leaf. That outline was actually a leaf shaped opening on the cover of the pad of paper where I got my background paper from. I pulled off the cover and trimmed  around the leaf and then added it on my page.

I stamped some words on the inside of the leaf and then colored the area with a water-based crayon. After I gave it a wash to smooth out the color, I used a colored pencil to draw in the veins. I also did some other background stamping. I die cut the turkey, stamped the Happy Thanksgiving, added some washi tape and a couple of old  stickers along the bottom of my page, and finished off my page with some gold foil paper trim as well as the little confetti dots in the leaf. The 2 stickers remind me of the kind that teachers used to put on our classwork back when I was in elementary school.

We're off to Maine on this Thanksgiving as we're having dinner at my sister-in-law's house. And my daughter is even home and going with us, which is great  (❤) since I haven't seen her at Thanksgiving for a few years now. My sister-in-law is bringing my mother-in-law over to her house for the day also (since my MIL is now in a memory care unit) so it will be nice to have more of the family together.  And, I've mentioned this before,  my sister-in-law's husband, is a chef, so the food is always really tasty. 

And while I'm on a thankful roll, I also want to mention that today would have been my grandmother's 114th birthday. My Nana and I were particularly close, and I still think about her all the time. She taught me to knit, to bake, to love long walks, to travel, and many other things which are important to me now. Since it's a good day to be grateful, I am thankful she was in my life for over 40 years and making my life even better being there.

Have a wonderful day and rest of your week everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate.

PS: I hope I get a chance to link this post up to Nicole's Friday Face Off and Gillena's Friday Smiles. With a busy week and the long holiday weekend as well as  my daughter being home, I won't have a seperate Friday post this week.