Thanksgiving Table Inspiration

In case you need help setting the table, here is a little last minute inspiration.  Happy Thanksgiving!

Photos from Martha Stewart, Domino, Carolyne Roehm, and Country Living

Smooth Sailing

“It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage." - George William Curtis

Junk Collage?

I Googled 'Collaged Furniture' and found this image.

{Silly me. I was thinking paper collaged onto furniture... not furniture collaged onto furniture!} Artist Thomas Wold's creation, as seen on Apartment Therapy blog, reminds me of the casework created for a retail wine shop that I wrote about on my retail design blog. This stuff is COOL and I'm heading out to the shop to grab some 'junk orphans' to see what I can create. What do you think about it?? Too progressive for the vintage set - or just quirky enough to elicit squeals of delight?

Ok, then... you win!

Our favorite links have been restored to the sidebar!

{Sorry if you clicked in over the past hour or two and couldn't get on the blog -

I had to pull it down while working on this new format}

Here's a quick tour of the changes:

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