Today I'm attempting to cover Thanksgiving this weekend before it morphs completely into Christmas. I adore fall at my house because I am a total earth-tone chick and as soon as stores start putting out autumn decor, I salivate. I don't decorate for ever holiday, but I cannot get enough fall leaves, gourds and pumpkins! Just so beautiful!
This fall I've had a bit of a turkey thing going on. First off, I've had a new church calling. I now am the primary chorister - so I created my friend Tom the turkey. Oh, I did NOT sew this adorable turkey!! I bought him at Hobby Lobby. But then I created a disguise for him. For each song the kids learned and/or sang well, they earned Tom a new piece of his disguise, with the goal being to get him unrecognizable by Thanksgiving so Farmer Brown wouldn't be able to find him. Disguise pieces? A wig (I made this of craft doll hair), glasses (courtesy of our Ms. Potato Head + googlie eyes for silliness factor), tutu (just sewn on an elastic band - super easy), boots (using a doll clothes pattern), a necktie (felt, I didn't feel like interfacing a turkey tie), and a sombrero (doll straw hat + rickrack with beads hand-sewn to each peak). So much fun! I giggled the whole time I was sewing the stupid tutu just thinking about how ridiculous the concept of a turkey tutu is!
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