Featured Article: DIY Thanksgiving Decor Made from Trash

Can you believe that Thanksgiving is tomorrow? If you still have a little more decorating to do then today's blog post should help you out! We're featuring an article all about making decorations from things you already have!

This list is pretty great and it enables you to recycle! An added bonus is that a lot of them use food in some way, so when you're done the fruit, pumpkins, squash and other organic materials can go straight into the compost heap!

Read the full article here, and if you missed it you should be sure to check out our Thanksgiving DIY blog post!

Featured Article: A Greener Thanksgiving Day Feast

As Thanksgiving approaches it is easy to get swept up in the excitement of the holidays and go a little bit overboard. While composting your left overs is one way to handle the extra food, there are a lot of other things that going into Turkey day, that make it a pretty wasteful holiday. That's why we were grateful to find this great article that goes over a couple of ways to make your Thanksgiving a little greener!

All of the steps that this article goes over are pretty easy to follow, and they can make a pretty huge impact. However, we'd like to add one more step- don't forget to compost any turkey day leftovers (except for the turkey itself if you're a home composter, of course).

Read the full article here.

Top 10 Thanksgiving DIYs

It's just a little over a week and a half until Thanksgiving. It's hard to believe the holiday got here so quickly! If you're hosting a get together at your house it's probably about time to start decorating. It's easy to buy decorations at the store, but it is often cheaper and greener to make some yourself, using things you have around the house, plus a few store-bought craft supplies! Today's blog is our top 10 Thanksgiving decoration DIYs. Check them out!

Give Thanks Tablecloth

The table is a crucial part of Thanksgiving- it's a holiday that is all about eating and giving thanks! So what better than a thanksgiving tablecloth? This burlap tablecloth is very chic, and it can also be very personal since you're making it yourself! 

Thanksgiving Centerpiece Bottle Trees

 Centerpieces are also a very important part of thanksgiving. These bottles that have been repurposed as decorations make a great centerpiece, but we think you can use them all winter long on your mantel as well!

Thankful Tree

The idea behind this tree is to have guests write what they are thankful for on the slips of paper. It's a fun way to get everyone's ideas on it, and if you eat with the same people every year you can continue to add to it, so you will have years worth of thankful memories!

Giving Thanks Cigar Box

 This fun box allows everyone to write down a memory and keep it in the box. If you like the idea of time capsules, this could work great! It will also be a box you can reuse every year.

Thanks bottle mantel piece

This is a little different than the other bottle craft we have. This one you can put whatever words on it you like (as long as you have enough bottles)! It might be fun to do the family name and change the decorations with every season!

Thanksgiving Tree

 This is another craft we've had an alternative version for, however this one is a little more Thanksgiving specific with the leaves. It might be fun to use the leaves first as the place setting, and then have everyone flip the leaf over and write what they're thankful for after or right before dinner.

2x4 Thanksgiving Turkey Tutorial

 This 2x4 Turkey is so cute and you could use it to decorate any room in your house! This tutorial does a great step-by-step guide to making your new turkey friend.

Branches Leaf

 The unfortunate thing about this tutorial is that it isn't very specific- but the poster brings up a good point that with a little hot glue or wire it would be easy to recreate, and all of your supplies can be found in your front lawn!

Glitter Wreath

 This wreath is trendy and fun. We also think the best way to make the leaves is with old cardboard that you then paint over and glitter up!

Gratitude Mobile

This mobile is a fun craft to do a little bit ahead of Thanksgiving with the kids, so they remember to be grateful even before they take a bite of the turkey.

Those are our top picks! Do you have any great crafts that you've found this thanksgiving or have a favorite of the ones we've shared? Be sure to let us know in the comments!