A table and home full of fall colors, pretty place settings and a mix of flowers and greenery will create a welcoming sight for Thanksgiving visitors — all without breaking a budget.
•Enlist the kids to help create a centerpiece for the holiday table, suggests Jerry Thrash, decorator with Capitol's Rosemont Gardens. "Use pumpkins, which you can still find now. It's family fun to take a pumpkin and carve it out to use in a pie. Then take the pumpkin itself and use that as your centerpiece."
Arrange some fresh greens from the yard to put inside pumpkins, or use some curly willow or cattails, which have probably dried out by now, Thrash said.
The experts at Teleflora say that apples and pears can be hollowed out and used to hold a stem or two. You can keep the stems hydrated with a small water tube
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