Wow! Amazing work on the pumpkins! I spy your acorn dish, too. I'll try to remember to take a picture tomorrow.

I was hoping you’d post your table! Beautiful!

It’s so lovely, warm, and inviting. And you made those gorgeous pumpkins?! The flowers are so pretty and I love your plates on the woven chargers.

I haven’t finished mine, just started gathering the pumpkins, candles, and flowers. I’ve been peeling, chopping, stirring, cooking, and washing up for hours — I’m beat. I want a massage. :D

Lovely! You did angreat job with the pumpkin. Have you been doing pottery for long?

I love the little squash person!

Well done! your fabulous grandson will love the squash person.

My table tonight will include a pizza box and beer. I will use a nice glass for my beer.

Tomorrow’s table may look better.

“My table tonight will include a pizza box and beer. I will use a nice glass for my beer.”

😂

(What time? I just invited myself over.)

Mine’s nothing to write home (or houzz) about, esp since we still haven’t received the new chairs we ordered in JULY, and I have not yet found new tablecloths in the right size. Need to bring up 2 more chairs in the morning… and yes, those are dog toys on the floor...

I made the floral arrangment at a class on Sat. — was I the last to learn that tulips grow even after they’ve been cut? The instructor mentioned that, and sure enough the 3 tulips in the arrangement have grown about 2-3” since Sat.!

Jinx I haven’t touched a ceramic piece since 1994 when our family made a Nativity set together. Our church had a Sip and Seek meeting (sip wine, do something fun and talk about some important ethical issue) at the studio in October and I started the first one at that time. It came out so well i sid another for our long table. I am working on another project for Christmas..

Sue that’s a lovely centerpiece! your table is a great size for the room. You’ve waited a long time for those chairs, hopefully they will arrive in time for Christmas.

@Kswl I'm sure Andrew will love the squash! Lovely table. Sue yours looks nice too and I'm impressed at your flower arrangement.

Well, boohoo, I just found out the 30 tulips I ordered to be delivered today for my Thanksgiving centerpiece have been delayed until Friday. Needless to say, I cancelled the order, but I had to be very forceful to do so. It's so stupid, too, because they were coming from a grower about 50 miles away, so there's no excuse for the delay. I think I'll just use some candles. I'm not in the mood to dig through the autumn decorating boxes for faux foliage to use. I know it's a first world problem when people are starving, but I'm still disappointed.

Test run with candles lit. :D

We’ll only be five, so eating at the humble breakfast table.

All the tables look festive and fun. Sueb, only apologize when the dog toys are ON the table:)

What gorgeous pumpkins you made! The squash person is adorable. Beautiful table. Our youngest and her family will be here within the half hour. I made lasagna too!

I’m not hosting this year, but my table does have some new-to-me china i jusr received. It’s my grandmother’s pattern and mom isn’t giving hers up. The two broken bowls are being replaced. So, since we’re redecorating I decided it was time to indulge….like this whole process isn’t massively indulgent to begin with! plus, bonus pic of my new light fixture…..I’ll post separately about my overall progress this weekend.

Gorgeous chandelier, Spanish!

Fun2Bhere, what a shame about your flowers—I would be disappointed too, especially since there’s no obvious reason for the delay.

Jinx, your table is beautiful and autumnal, I love the small pumpkins! The runner is perfect for your fall decor— nothing humble about it 👍

Allison, I wanted our dinner tonight to be as unlike Thanksgiving food as possible and lasagne was perfect. Thanks, and thanks to you all, for your kind words about my pumpkins.

Spanish, your new light is magnificent and the china is lovely. I can’t wait for an extensive tour featuring all the new changes.

Oh, Jill, that table and porch setting are simply magical! No need to acknowledge the holiday even with napkins when you are hosting a wedding. What a beautiful picture!

I love those pumpkins, Kswl, and your squashman is a fun touch for Andrew!

Jill - yesterday was a perfect day for a wedding! Congrats to all

@1929Spanish-GW, what a beautiful light fixture!

Beautiful tables, everyone! KSWL, I’m so very glad you are back and sharing your tables!

There are just five of us, so I’m keeping it casual.

Mojo your table setting is gorgeous! I love the blue of the china with the natural colors of the painted salad plate and those light brown goblets—-wonderful harvet color scheme!

Dinner this evening is at 7pm, but with all the preparations, I set the table around noon today. A smaller gathering this year, with just us, our daughter and her boyfriend. DH just needs to start a fire in the fireplace now.

Just basic stuff here, not a lot of room.

LynnNM, those pinecone plates are delicate and so unusual— are they antique? Such a great pattern for at least half the year! Also love the leaf bread plates, have been looking at some of those myself 🙄

Beautiful tone on tone color scheme, Jojoco, and those glasses are so fun snd cleve, as are those pumpkin placecard holders!

Gsciencechick I would say that FOOD is the star of your table…wow! With all that bounty i did not even see the individual plates on first glance. You’ve decorated in the spirit of the holiday—-with abundance 🧆🥙🥘🍲🍗🌽

Just before the food arrives..we don't waste table space with huge center pieces...we serve family style and the table gets FULL.

Best bird ever--brined the day before...properly season before putting on the grill..took 2hrs to smoke and the pink smoke ring was perfection!

That’s a big bird, Arcy, and I did not realize smoking was a much faster process than roasting. Festive table and cute turkey napkins!

Heres ours

Also basic not so formal and someone parked their Yetti in the middle 🙄 and i did have the margarine (that we have only for the daughter) in a nicer container. But apparently it didnt make it to the table

Those darn Yettis!

My DD brought hers, but I made her pour the contents into a nice glass for the meal. 😂

Your decor is so pretty, I seriously didn’t notice it!

@pudgeder, what is it with people and their personal beverage containers at a nicely set table? I've had people more than once plop their styrofoam go cup on my table set with crystal and china. In one case, I know it is because the person is an alcoholic and we weren't serving alcohol, but in the other cases, it made no sense. I'm happy for any visitor to decant their chosen beverage into one of my pretty glasses.

Agree that some people will take a purple metal water bottle and plop it down on a formal table with no second thoughts about what’s appropriate (my DD is one). Clearly those are not the people who post on Gw though, lol. Pudge your blue and white against the wood table is just lovely, Yeti or not. 😁

I subcontracted table setting. We were 10 in the DR and 4 at a kids table. My DD decided to use these big ballon glasses instead of the crystal, and does not seem to care for placemats or tablecloths. She also remarked that I managed to have a Thxgiving-y table without red or orange !

For the first time one of our sons hosted Thanksgiving. Certainly made the holiday relaxing though Mom was called upon to help. Below is a previous table setting

Funny about my table -- I put the decorations up days before. When the grandkids arrived on Sunday, I asked them to set the table. (We celebrated Sunday before) They always help set the table. They know the basic rules, fork on the left, knife & spoon on right... etc.

When it was time to put the silverware on, hubs just pulled the whole cutlery tray out of the drawer for them, and they went to town. After they were finished, I glanced at the table and apparently they ran out of spoons. Some of the settings had serving spoons! I chuckled. And I LEFT them right where they were. LOL

One of the guests (all family) sat at one of those w/the serving spoons, asked who set the table. When I told them the Grandkids, they just laughed and ate with the assigned spoon.

Just another happy memory.

Here's the "kids" table.

For the record, I didn't set out to have a collection of Turkey S&Ps. Somehow it just happened.

The tables themselves are old. Far from priceless antiques, but they're priceless to me.

^^This one, in the 1930's my Grandfather brought it home from a job he'd done for a woman. She didn't have the money to pay him so she gave him the table. Years later, my Momma got it, and my Dad refinished. (It could use another refinish and some work) It's rather "warped". When my sister married, Mom couldn't get rid of it fast enough. I told Sis that she got it until I got married, and when I did, she gave it to me. (surprisingly) It's a bit beaten, groans when we pull it apart to put the leaves in, but it's special to me. It's where my family had their Sunday & company meals. It's where my Momma cut out the fabric for the clothes she made for us, and where I did my homework.

I've had it for the last 40 years and wouldn't take a million bucks for it.

Well...... I probably WOULD take a million. No one is dumb enough to offer that for it. LOL

The other table, was my late FIL's work bench. FIL had a branding tool with his initials to mark his tools. On one side of the bench, his initials are seared into the edge where he practiced with his branding. Originally, It came out of the Lone Star Brewery in Oklahoma City. It's solid, maple, 104" long, and weighs a TON. After FIL passed, I put my name on the work bench. Everyone thought I was nuts including husband. It was covered in grime, and dirty as it should be since it was a workbench. We took it to a master craftsman, and he cleaned it up, lightly stained, sealed and made it "food safe." He put it on an industrial base with huge castors. Took 6 big men to move it into the house. The 1st time husband laid eyes on it, big ol' tears welled up. Guess I wasn't as nuts as he thought. ;-)

Pudge. Id love to see your reclaimed table! What a wonderful story.

No Thanksgiving table here-we went to NYC for the week and had a front-row seat for the parade. We then had steak and lobster for dinner.

So many gorgeous table settings and all so different. Pudgeder, love your tables and the stories that go with them-what treasures! Mtnrdredux, your table is a beauty. Is it an antique-have a family history?

Thanks, Lizbeth. It is an antique, but that is all I know. I bought the table and chairs from the PO. Our DR is casual (slate floor!) and my old DR table is very formal. The only casual table I had is round and this DR is a long, skinny room. So it worked out well that the PO was moving to Palm Springs and selling a lot of his stuff.

That was fortunate. Some things just seem to fit a house so well they shouldn't be separated!

Pudge, the kids’ table is def where I would have sat— love the tiers of Thanksgiving S&Ps, that is an INSPIRED way to display them as if in some trendy turkey coop!! The table is another beauty and a great companion to the one in your DR.

FMroberts i would love to take a turn as a guest one Thanksgiving; you’re lucky to have a kid willing to host. I like your table setting from a Thankgiving past, the plates remind me of Mary Englebreit or Mackenzie Childs.

Mtn the lack of accoutrements allows your table to be the star itself, the color and patina of the wood is so lovely. My kids are also far more minimalist than I but I never complain as long as they follow the place setting guide that I still keep in the top drawer of the breakfront. Your DD has set a creditable table 😁 presumably without a printed guide— I’d be very proud of that!

Jana, I like your tablescape/ landscape best of all!

@kswl - you’re very kind. Having seen many of your posts, I could learn from you.

Jana, tell us more about your trip. I've never been to the parade and always wanted to go. Our offices are along the route so I really should, albeit awfully high up.