Last night marked the second annual Yanksgiving (clever hey? I thought of it myself).
It started last year because Ryan and I love thanksgiving. We love food and love getting together with our friends, and we’ll use any excuse to put all those together, even if it’s celebrating someone elses holiday.
And just like last year, last night’s yanksgiving was filled with the same good old fashioned cramped around the table stuff your face until you’re gonna burst kinda fun.
I get a lot of comments on my deer antler (because it’s so gorgeous). It wasn’t obtained by hunting. Rather, my parents have a large yard where deer constantly frequent and from time to time they shed their antlers in the yard, and this is one of them. Thank you deer!
I had great fun taking a roll of kraft paper, cutting it in half and using it as table runners on each edge of the table. I then placed the dishes and wrote the persons name above their plate as an easy yet beautiful place card.
Non Americans, if you love thanksgiving, why don’t you join us next year and celebrate Yanksgiving? I’ll even let you use the name.
And non Canadians, go ahead and celebrate our thanksgiving in October, and you can call it Canucksgiving.
We turned our chalkboard into a thankful wall. Some of the things written on it are “Food”, “Hard Hugs” and “Being Married”.
What a great idea! It’s looks wonderfully cozy and yummy.
Oh and Canucksgiving…awesome!
I wanted todo something like this but Thursday is a tough day for anyone… Lovely idea!!!
Thursday is really hard and because of it not everyone can get out, but it’s still tons of fun despite the busy day!
What a fun celebration! I love the idea of craft paper as a table runner, and those cake pedestals are so pretty!
Lovely! What a great idea. I’m with you there, any excuse for such a gathering is a good one!
Love it! Looks like a fun night.
Love these pics!
My husband (Ingo) and I held our sixth American Thanksgiving in Canada this year. It all started when he lived in Boston, and would come to visit me in Toronto over his thanksgiving break. But visiting meant that he missed both Canadian and American thanksgiving and he couldn’t deal with out an infusion of turkey in the fall. And so, our American Thanksgiving tradition was born!
We quickly realized that it was even better than hosting Canadian thanksgiving because everyone was in town to come. As our guest list kept growing, we eventually had to switch to a potluck, and move the venue outside our house.
This year, we had 60 guests! I was in charge of the mulled white wine sangria (yum) and the decorations (of course), and Ingo single handedly roasted three (3!) turkeys. And I also got a chance to re-use my wedding linens.
Wahoo for turkey-based traditions.
xoxo
kate
60 people, that’s incredible!!! So true, it’s great because pretty well everyone can come! Although since we do it on the Thursday we can’t always do turkeys :/ Well done on roasting three!
Do you host it on the Thursday or the following weekend?
Definitely the following weekend!