Thanksgiving Greetings

Baby & Turkey Thanksgiving Postcard at Lots Of Postcards

Sending out Thanksgiving greetings to all of you celebrating this pie-filled holiday. I came across this bizarro image on a 1909 postcard of what is supposedly a baby riding a turkey? To me all I can see is a freak baby with turkey legs. Is it just me?! Made me giggle so I thought I'd share :) Have a happy one!

Thank You

Today is Thanksgiving Day here in the States. I know so many of you visit this space from all over the world (thank you Google Analytics!). Today I want to say thank you to each and everyone of you who take time to stop by and take a gander around this space and my Etsy shop. Thank you for your support of my work and your notes/emails/convos of encouragement. Thank you for the surprise packages of goodies you send my way. To an artist and a mama who works from home....these are the little things that make my day, inspire me and keep me going (that...and coffee!). So today....I wanna say...I am grateful for you.

Gobble, Gobble

Our Thanksgiving Day preparations are well underway and I'm busy wrapping up loose ends in the shop so I can take the day off tomorrow! This will be our second year celebrating with a purely vegetarian menu and I think I've got a better handle on it this time 'tho lemme say it'll be a little bit heavy on the carbs. haha! These pictures were taken last year....we made fruit turkeys which have been a tradition in my family since I can remember. I'm gonna pop back in later today to announce this years BIG Sushipot Holiday Sale. Planning to have it up and running so I don't even have to think about it on my day off. Wishing you and yours a Happy Turkey Day if you reside here in the USA. Gobble, gobble!

Happy Turkey Day!

Happy Turkey Day to all you celebrating Thanksgiving in the United States and a Happy 24th of November to those of you 'round the world! I'm hoping this fine bird makes its way through the day with his gobbler intact. He was such a friendly fellow and even posed for this portrait the day we visited his farm.

Our holiday repast will exclude any meat dishes this year as Patrick and I gave up meat for a week long challenge back in the Spring and have not eaten any since (yeah, I can't believe it either). This year it's turning into somewhat of a carb-fest (ie, double servings of hash brown casserole please!) as neither of us are taken with the idea of consuming faux meat.

But...our yearly tradition of crafting a fruit turkey will carry on. It was always a fun memory for me growing up and we've been making them with Lizzie every year--this one is from two years ago and boy has she grown (Lizzie not the turkey!).



And what am I thankful for this year? Well, I'm still trying to top last years list of family thanks: treasure boxes, coffee, Apple Inc, and paper chains. Life is good!

Our Thanksgiving Week

A random assortment of snapshots from our Thanksgiving week. The tree was set up, stockings hung, a countdown-to-xmas paper chain was created, lots of goodies were baked and consumed, all of the special holiday books that only come out at this time of year were unearthed. In general, much fun was had by all!

The shops have been quite busy and I've a pile of orders to pack but before I sign off a reminder that Sushipot's Holiday Sale is continuing until midnight (CST) tonight. Enter coupon code, SUSHIPOT20, at checkout to receive 20% off your entire order.

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing my American readers a Happy Thanksgiving today. This 1940's illustration is by the French illustrator, Jean de la Fontinelle. According to Google translator the caption reads, "The turkey and turkey waddle". We've decided to forgo the traditional repast of turkey today and baking a ham instead. But...before I start cooking I wanted to say I am thankful for every one of you blog readers!