Thanksgiving Mantletop

I put some things out on the mantel for Thanksgiving.

I really liked this garland, it is a little bit like jewelry.  I found it at Hobby Lobby. 

The candles glowing are a must when it gets cold outside.

The cornucopia was the perfect place to try something completely different.  So, I put a flower pick in the bottom, then I placed a gold bird's nest on top of that with a gilded baby boo pumpkin.  

My favorite is the art print.  I found it in a Ladies Home journal from the early 1900's.

"The Abduction of Pocahontas" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, c. 1910, recreates the arrival of Captain Samuel Argall (at left) at Jamestown with Pocahontas as his captive. He had kidnapped her in 1613 "for the ransoming of so many Englishmen as were prisoners with Powhatan: as also to get ... armes and tools ... [and] some quantities of Corne, for the colonies relief." The Europeans, who regarded Pocahontas as a princess, were surprised that her father did not redeem her, but in a matrilineal society she could not inherit her father's power and so was relatively unimportant.  (www.vahistorical.org)

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (August 18, 1863 – March 18, 1930) was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist. (wikipedia.org)
*Note- this was the art print I owned, so I put it on the mantle.  Jean Leon Gerome also did a scene of the "First Thanksgiving," a more suitable art print for the season.  I just appreciate the art so I put it up. 

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I will join these sites, go and visit. 

Show Off your Cottage Monday  at The House in the Roses

Tabletop Tuesday  at A Stroll Thru Life

2nd Time Around at A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words

Twice Owned Tuesday at The House of Grace

 I will join Joni at Red Couch Recipes for the Thanksgiving Challenge.  I will put at the end of every post till Thanksgiving what I am thankful for.  I am thankful for family.
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa

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