Thankful

I spent the last couple of weeks finishing up a section of an ongoing project and getting ready for the holiday season.

This is one corner of a sampler I'm working on.  The flowers represent state flowers from various places my family has lived over the generations.  It's taken me a while to get this portion done, so I'm taking a little break to work on holiday projects before starting back on this.

My first plan was to get my salt and pepper shaker collection organized so I can pull out seasonal shakers more easily.  I had some help on this project:

I've got everything organized now according to season/holiday which is very helpful since when I pulled out my Autumn/Thanksgiving shakers I realized I only had THREE sets.  Obviously this was not enough for any kind of display so I bought some turkey shakers to go with my pilgrims and pumpkins.  

I already know that my Christmas shaker collection is BIG so I'm looking forward to getting those sets out.  And speaking of Christmas I've got some projects planned already:

Currently I have some felt ornaments, a tablecloth and a wreath made of wine corks planned.  If this is like most holidays however, other projects will slip in as well.

I also have a project I'm working on for a contest - it's not holiday themed so it's going to be a little bit of a challenge to keep working on it while I want to just do Christmas stuff but it has a due date in January so I'm going to try and stay focused.

I feel like I'm not necessarily ahead of the holiday crafting game, but I'm at least prepared for it.  I hope everyone's Thanksgiving is great and you holiday season is filled with fun crafting!