Design Contest Rule Ideas for Thanksgiving
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Palms
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That's funny Palms!!!
I have a pen pal that lives in Salford. I have been writing to him since I was 12.
He came to my wedding in 2002, and he came for the week of Thanksgiving a few years back. He didn't understand Thanksgiving either.
He says to me "SO ya sit around the table eating a turkey and getting pissed all day?"
(To the Americans who don't know 'pissed' means drunk)
So had to explain how the tradition of thanksgiving was to celebrate how the Indians (native Americans) helped the pilgrims through the winter, helped them survive, helped them make it basically. Or at least that's what they told me in elementary school. Then in Jr. high I learned a whole different history about native Americans.
Anyway....
Now I think Thanksgiving is for families to come together and celebrate all the blessings in their lives. Great or small.
We eat (usually) turkey, pumpkin pie, stuffing, potatoes, cranberries, corn, all things that would have been eaten on that first Thanksgiving. It's held in the fall because that is harvest time and food is plentiful, which back then that would have been a great blessing!
I'm sure someone else can explain it to you much more eloquently than I can, but there you go.
I have a pen pal that lives in Salford. I have been writing to him since I was 12.
He came to my wedding in 2002, and he came for the week of Thanksgiving a few years back. He didn't understand Thanksgiving either.
He says to me "SO ya sit around the table eating a turkey and getting pissed all day?"
(To the Americans who don't know 'pissed' means drunk)
So had to explain how the tradition of thanksgiving was to celebrate how the Indians (native Americans) helped the pilgrims through the winter, helped them survive, helped them make it basically. Or at least that's what they told me in elementary school. Then in Jr. high I learned a whole different history about native Americans.
Anyway....
Now I think Thanksgiving is for families to come together and celebrate all the blessings in their lives. Great or small.
We eat (usually) turkey, pumpkin pie, stuffing, potatoes, cranberries, corn, all things that would have been eaten on that first Thanksgiving. It's held in the fall because that is harvest time and food is plentiful, which back then that would have been a great blessing!
I'm sure someone else can explain it to you much more eloquently than I can, but there you go.
njgraham
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So... regarding a competition for this, should we do something that could include non-US members? Maybe just a centerpiece with the parameters being the size and shape of the table? Seems we should limit the $value to even the playing field.
On the other hand, are we already too close to holidays to make this easy for us? I'm already feeling the holidays pressing in. What about planning ahead for something after the holidays... maybe even after Valentine's Day... to give us something to focus on in the dead of winter?
On the other hand, are we already too close to holidays to make this easy for us? I'm already feeling the holidays pressing in. What about planning ahead for something after the holidays... maybe even after Valentine's Day... to give us something to focus on in the dead of winter?
cherrie
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Let's do Thanksgiving.
I think that these contests shouldn't be heavy duty pressure.
Let's just do it for the fun of it?????????
Make it spontaneous. Not such a big deal. It's good exercise for us.
Cathy, are you out there? Will you help?
Dare you trend this water again?
I think we may be rid of the sharks????
I think that these contests shouldn't be heavy duty pressure.
Let's just do it for the fun of it?????????
Make it spontaneous. Not such a big deal. It's good exercise for us.
Cathy, are you out there? Will you help?
Dare you trend this water again?
I think we may be rid of the sharks????
Palms
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With regards to Thanksgiving, i was a little jokey before. Victoria explained the history of thanksgiving to me once before and thanks Shannon for explaining it too.
I will try to explain what i mean, if i did a christmas table centre, over here they are associated with cones, berries, certain colours represent christmas etc etc I just would have no idea what would make a thanksgiving table cetnre any different to any other?? Maybe if i could see some pics that may tell me.
I am happy to sit this one out though, did not want to make a big deal of it honest, just asking??
I will try to explain what i mean, if i did a christmas table centre, over here they are associated with cones, berries, certain colours represent christmas etc etc I just would have no idea what would make a thanksgiving table cetnre any different to any other?? Maybe if i could see some pics that may tell me.
I am happy to sit this one out though, did not want to make a big deal of it honest, just asking??
cherrie
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It's a celebration of the autumn harvests.
So table centerpieces with lots of textures and mostly earthtone colors, like rusts, cranberrys, oranges, browns, beiges, reds, and yelows.
We use wheat and cattails, pods, ornamental squashes and pumpkins, cornucopias, baskets and candles. Different kinds of grasses - millets, broom corn. I always like to throw in purples, think it makes everything pop.
Here are some pics I took for my site.
So table centerpieces with lots of textures and mostly earthtone colors, like rusts, cranberrys, oranges, browns, beiges, reds, and yelows.
We use wheat and cattails, pods, ornamental squashes and pumpkins, cornucopias, baskets and candles. Different kinds of grasses - millets, broom corn. I always like to throw in purples, think it makes everything pop.
Here are some pics I took for my site.
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