Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours!
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families and friends. With other family obligations, my immediate family can’t always get together on Thanksgiving Day anyway, so it will be just as well that we don’t have to travel and just enjoy the day in our own home.
So, I got out the white china and decided to set a pretty table. 
We don’t often use our diningroom, so it’s fun to play around with the place settings and linens. I hardly ever set a formal table, but I had fun with it.
I just used what I had and this is the first time I’ve used all of this together. After putting the table together, I realized that at least half of these things came from yardsales (no surprise there). This white china with a simple gold band was found at Target a few years ago (el-cheapo) and I have a set of 8. The placemats were picked up this summer at a yardsale (I think I paid $1 for all of them!). They are woven wicker-like and I love that they are round. They fit my round table so much better than the rectangular ones do.
Even the faux pears were a yardsale find.
As well as this pretty lace square runner in the middle of the table and the salad tongs, both yardsale finds.
This will be our first time using the yardsale silverplate flatware I found this summer too. $10 for the whole bunch. I polished it up with my Wright’s Silvercreme and it is beautiful. 
I moved the bittersweet and glass vase in from the livingroom along with the wooden candlesticks (vase & candlesticks also a yardsale find). Simple and elegant. I only had 4 of the plaid napkins, so mixed in 2 of the green.
(Yay, I did some research on the problem of enlarging the pics on Blogger & found out the solution from a message board. If anyone wants to know, just ask & I’ll share). I was so used to having nice large pics, but of course they changed some code & messed it up. Now I have the answer & big pics again!)Here’s what I’m cooking this year:
*Roast Turkey
*Beef on the smoker
*Sweet Potato casserole
*Cornbread dressing (my mama told me how to make hers, this is my first time!)
*Tossed salad with cranberries & feta
*Cranberry congealed salad
*Green beans with feta and basil
*Mrs. Shubert’s rolls
*Coconut egg custard pie
*Pecan Pie (both pies from Publix, I know my limitations!)
Happy Thanksgiving, ya’ll! I’ll take a couple of days off, but will be back this weekend! Enjoy this time with your families. I’m looking forward to getting those Christmas decorations out very soon.
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Rhoda,
Hope your family has a wonderful Thanksgiving together! Your table looks lovely, and your menu sounds so yummy! I just know it will be a special day for you 🙂
Blessings,
Stacey
Hi Rhoda, your dining room is beautiful, and your menu sounds delish! Enjoy your Thanksgiving at home this year.
A lovely Thanksgiving table you have brought together. I love the round woven placemats, and the simple arrangement, just set the table off. Happy Thanksgiving.
It looks great! Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
I can never get enough of looking at pretty tables, and yours is just that. It’s fun to hear you found most of the lovelies while thrifting. Isn’t it fun to spot what you know is just GREAT?
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Happy Thanksgiving Rhoda,
What a pretty table setting. Love your use of all your wonderful garage sale finds. Don’t you just love thrifting?? I know I do.
Lisa
Beautiful! And don’t forget the gravy! 🙂 Gotta have that gravy! hee hee
Happy Thanksgiving to you!!!
I’ve got bunches of mine already done, that is what I could do early I did early so I wouldn’t be soooo tired from staying in the kitchen all day because it’s usually up early in the morning and eating at like 1 or so. And you know everything has to be JUST SO, so you’re all wound up trying to get it that way. 😉
Hope you enjoy having it there in your home for a change. I know I will. It’s been like 4 or more years since I had it at our house. It will just be us 3 here though.
Rhoda Happy Thanksgiving! I love all your deals and your table is so beautiful as usual. Good luck with the meal, and the dressing I am sure will turn out great.
🙂
Sheila
Your table looks beautiful and your menu sounds absolutely delicious! Happy Thanksgiving!
That table is beautiful!
There is simply nothing like mama’s dressing. I hope yours goes off scrumptiously.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I’d love to know how you fix your beef in the smoker… You have such a lovely blog.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Your table looks beautiful! I love those salad tongs and your silverplate looks beautifull too! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
I would love to know how to enlarge the photos on blogger! I didn’t even know you could do that! You can email me at [email protected] or maybe you should just do a post about it if there are a lot of us!
Hi, Carla,
I'm hoping that beef turns out good. We have a smoker with mesquite wood that we'll be throwing on there and I have an eye of round marinating overnight in Grillmates mesquite marinade. I'm going to put it on the smoker for about 3 hours or so & hope it is yummy. I've done turkey & pork on there & they have always turned out good. I'll let you know on this one!
Everyone who's interested in the enlarging pics tutorial, I just finished a post which will go up on Sat. so check back for that!
Thanks to all of you for coming by!
xoxo,
Rhoda
Oh Rhoda, how beautiful your table looks! And I LOVE that you used lots of yardsale and thrift finds. That flatware is so beautiful! I used a mixture of silverplate flatware and German silver spoons on my table this year.
Wishing you a wonderful time with your family. Happy Thanksgiving!
xoxo,
Mary
Hi Rhoda,
Your table looks lovely and just perfect for Thanksgiving. I hope that you and your family have a wonderful day! Happy Thanksgiving!
Lovely as always, Rhoda. I’m anxious to leave the office and thought your blog would be an inspirational send off. Waving to you from Atlanta.
Ginger
Hi Rhoda
Everything looks beautiful. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving day.
Hugs, Rhondi
Happy Thanksgiving, dear Rhoda! Thank YOU for brightening my day so many times this year.
I love your “thrifty table” (it looks like a million bucks!) and agree with you on round placemats for a round table. I compensated by buying square dishes. On clearance sale, of course. 🙂
Hi, nice blog!
I love Thanksgiving day very much. I found a site with a lot of things about Thanksgiving. Maybe this will interest you: All about Thanskgiving Day!!! 🙂
Dear Rhoda, What a lovely table setting…I thought surely the pears were real, was thinking, “Ooh, you could use faux ones and people could take them as favors” and then realized yours were faux as well! The silver is a lovely art deco pattern, I wonder what it is called? I searched ebay earlier this year until I put together a set of Jubilee, made in the late 50’s. It was fun to hunt and gather, but I didn’t get quite so good a deal$. Anyway, I am happy to have found your blog and hope that you have a lovely holiday! Most Sincerely, Bobbi