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Spice Up Dinner; Add A Dash of Fall Flowers!

Thanksgiving Cornucopia - Holiday DecorThere’s something about November that makes us think about delicious food.. oh yah! Thanksgiving! The pecan pie, turkey, dressing, cranberries, casseroles.. it’s all so good and brings families so close together. Most of us have at least one favorite memory of Thanksgiving with the family. Maybe it’s the first time you didn’t have to sit at the ‘kids table’ or the unbeatable taste of your great aunt’s pumpkin pie?

This Thanksgiving, create new special memories for your family in your own home. Of course, the food has to be delectable, but great fall decor has a way of making lasting impressions.

Add A Dash of Fall Flowers

Imagine your Thanksgiving table adorned with a lush fall cornucopia filled with cheery sunflowers, feathers, mums and tiny gourds. Your local florist can also create arrangements inside pumpkins and other fall veggies. Imagine your families’ faces as they enter the fall wonderland you’ve created. Create garland from colorful, fall leaves to string up over your mantel. There are so many fall options for decorations. Call your local florist today to get started on your Thanksgiving extravaganza!

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Happy Thanksgiving From FSN

Today was the annual Thanksgiving celebration at FSN headquarters. If you’ve been following our blog long, you know we love any excuse to bring food to work and Thanksgiving is the biggest homemade lunch day of the year! Today we filled 3 tables with homemade food and a whole bookshelf of desserts! It doesn’t get any better than that!

We hope you have an wonderful Thanksgiving Day too! I’m off to get another no-bake cookie…

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Thanksgiving Flowers – A Style For Everyone

An easy way to take your Thanksgiving decor to the next level is by incorporating harvest-themed flowers. The colors, fragrances, and beauty of the flowers can make any buffet table look like it was composed by Ms. Martha Stewart herself. Let’s take a look at the different styles available; try to imagine each of these on your holiday table.

Thanksgiving Cornucopia - Holiday Decor

The Cornucopia – Holiday Decor

How gorgeous is this beautiful cornucopia design above? Wouldn’t you love it adorning your holiday buffet table, or even as a centerpiece? It’s rustic fall leaves mixed with deep red flowers and orange mums are enough to dazzle any Thanksgiving guest.

The cornucopia (or horn of plenty) has an incredibly interesting history itself, dating back long before our current Thanksgiving holiday. The word ‘cornucopia’ actually dates back to the 5th century BC. It derives from two Latin words: “cornu,” meaning horn (as in the name of that one-horned creature, the “unicorn”) and “copia,” meaning plenty (a relative of such words as “copious” and “copy”). Read all about the history of the cornucopia (horn of plenty).

More Examples of Cornucopias:

 "Nature's Bounty" Cornucopia  "Harvest Horn of Plenty" Cornucopia  Bountiful Cornucopia

 


Thanksgiving Centerpiece

The Thanksgiving Centerpiece

You cannot go wrong with a beautifully designed centerpiece featuring flowers in all the colors of fall. A true feast is just not complete without the adornment of a beautiful, fall-colored centerpiece. [Read more…]

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6. Express Gratitude with Fall Flowers

Beautiful Fall FlowersThanksgiving Day is the perfect time to brighten the season with fall flowers. The colors alone are enough to bring a smile to a loved one’s face or bring warmth to a cold November day with shades of red, gold, orange, brown and plum. Flowers communicate in ways that other decorations can’t. They say that the day is blessed and the guests or recipients are valued.When you add the natural beauty and aroma of a fall flower arrangement to the aromas associated with Thanksgiving…

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5. All About The Cornucopia – The Horn of Plenty

lush-cornucopia-arrayThe cornucopia is a time-honored symbol of abundance, long associated with Thanksgiving. However, it was symbolic well before this holiday existed. The word ‘cornucopia’ actually dates back to the 5th century BC. It derives from two Latin words: “cornu,” meaning horn (as in the name of that one-horned creature, the “unicorn”) and “copia,” meaning plenty (a relative of such words as “copious” and “copy”). Thus, “cornucopia” literally means horn of plenty

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4. Thanksgiving Card Snippets

18) (Funny) Hoping these will sway your answer to the most important question of the day–Do I have to wear one of those funny pilgrim hats to dinner?

19) Wishing you warm and heartfelt blessings this holiday season.

20) May the turkey be plump and your tummy full. Or is it the other way around? Happy Thanksgiving!

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3. Say Hello To Falls Abundant Beauty

Gratitude With Fall FlowersNeed a gift for a Thanksgiving celebration? Throwing a festive fall party but need something to liven up the decorations? This fall flowers centerpiece is for you. Fall flowers add cheer faster than Uncle Bob’s silly jokes, so fall in love with the Abundant Beauty centerpiece this year. Don’t be surprised if your other decorations get jealous. Candle wreaths are very popular but the “Abundant Beauty” centerpiece adds a great deal to the traditional idea…

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2. Fresh Flower Decorating Tips For Fall

There are a lot of ways to decorate a home for fall. For starters, you’re going to need plenty of fresh flowers. Dried and preserved will work, of course, but there is something sensuous and inviting about fresh flowers. They just start the season off right. Besides, as the leaves begin to fall and the colors burst then fade, you’re going to like having the fresh flowers around as you welcome winter weather into your home.

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1. The Perfect Hostess Gift For Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving CenterpieceEvery year I’m invited to an elaborate Thanksgiving party, and must greet the occasion with an air of Southern hospitality. Many people have heard the common rule, “Never arrive to a party empty-handed.” It’s one of those understood rules of etiquette that can be a bit hard to carry out in a unique way for yearly occasions such as Thanksgiving gatherings. However, I recently learned of a very fun and festive gift for the hostess.

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Happy Thanksgiving From Flower Shop Network!

Though many of us will be buried elbow deep in a Thanksgiving turkey by now, or tofurkey for many of my friends, myself and the rest of the Flower Shop Network crew wanted to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you have a blessed and happy holiday.

Quick and Easy Flower Decorating Ideas For Thanksgiving

Harvest Halo Fall Centerpice

Harvest Halo Fall Centerpice

Since Thanksgiving is only a few days away, here are a few quick and easy ideas for decorating your house with flowers. With a dash of creativity and the help of a local florist, these simple flower decorating tips will your guests making plans to celebrate at your house next year.

1.  Decorate the mantelpiece with colorful fall flowers.

When your loved ones gather around the fire, everyone will love the way that the light of the fire accentuates the beautiful shades of your amber, red, brown and burgundy fall flowers. A few miniature pumpkins and gourds will give this mantelpiece a finishing touch that can be carried over through the rest of the fall season.

2.  Liven up the dinner table

with a Thanksgiving centerpiece from your local florist. Having your florist create a colorful centerpiece saves you time and effort but still allows you to add some personal touches once you arrive at home.

3. Places Overlooked

Hallway tables, unobtrusive corners and other places are often overlooked. This Thanksgiving, turn your whole house into the place to celebrate by brightening these nooks with arrangements of fall flowers or buying a houseplant from a local flower shop.

4. More Than Centerpieces

Where tablecloths and runners begin the decorations of the food table, finish it off with a few vines of ivy or ask your local florist to create an elongated floral centerpiece. The dimensions of these will draw the eye to the ends of the table, giving the mind a chance to enjoy a glance at the many delicious foods.

Thanksgiving: More than one day to be thankful

November is the Thanksgiving holiday month for the United States. This year the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving on November 22nd. The Canadian Thanksgiving holiday is celebrated in October. What is Thanksgiving?

Ask people what Thanksgiving means to them and you’ll get a wide variety of answers like:

  • Thanksgiving Turkey
  • The Thanksgiving Parade
  • A Day of Football
  • A Day Off
  • Time With Family
  • Thanksgiving Food – pumpkin pie, stuffing, five-cup salad, sweet potatoes and fruit baskets
  • Thanksgiving Decorations – flower centerpiece, Horn of Plenty cornucopia, gourds

Some people even mention the history of Thanksgiving and how the pilgrims gave thanks for their harvest.

I’ve been thinking about what Thanksgiving means to me. Turkey, pie, flowers for the Thanksgiving table, football, and family – Yes, all of those things remind me of Thanksgiving. But, what does Thanksgiving mean to me?

Last week, I read an editorial in Real Simple about a man who every morning wrote down 5 things he was thankful for. This editorial gave me an idea. To find out what Thanksgiving means to me, I would first need to know what I was thankful for.

Every day since November 1st, I’ve written down five things I’m thankful for that day.

Here are a few of the things I’ve been thankful for:

  • My husband because he made pancakes this morning.
  • My gerberas are still blooming.
  • My shoulder doesn’t hurt.
  • My Mom and Dad.
  • The orchid stems my husband brought me.
  • The laughter shared with friends.
  • The perky pansies on my front porch.
  • My dogs chasing leaves instead of digging up my tulip bulbs.

These are just a few of the things I have been thankful for the past few days. Friends, family and flowers – those are the things I am thankful for every day. So what does Thanksgiving mean to me? Remember! It means remember to at least one day a year to be thankful for friends, family, flowers or whatever. Every day we should be thankful for many things in life. If not every day then at least every Thanksgiving.

What will you be thankful for this Thanksgiving holiday?

Cornucopia – The Horn of Plenty

Cornucopia Name

The cornucopia is a time-honored symbol of abundance, long associated with Thanksgiving. However, it was symbolic well before this holiday existed. The word ‘cornucopia’ actually dates back to the 5th century BC. It derives from two Latin words: “cornu,” meaning horn (as in the name of that one-horned creature, the “unicorn”) and “copia,” meaning plenty (a relative of such words as “copious” and “copy”). Thus, “cornucopia” literally means horn of plenty, and the names are used interchangeably. It was usually depicted as a curved goat’s horn, filled to overflowing with fruit and grain, but could actually have been filled with whatever the owner wished.

Cornucopia History – The Legend of Hercules & Achelous

Thanksgiving ConrnucopiaStill, have you ever wondered how this copious horn came to be? There are two historically understood origins of the cornucopia, and both come from Greek mythology. The first involves a feud between the renowned he-man, Hercules and the river-god, Achelous, the greatest river in Greece. The two were suitors for Dejanira, a young maiden of extraordinary beauty who was the daughter of King Oeneus of Calydon. The competition (the legendary Fifth Labor of Hercules) amounted to a colossal wrestling match, during which Hercules repeatedly gained the upper hand. Achelous, who was able to change his physical form, changed first into a snake, and then into a bull in order to gain leverage against Hercules. While Achelous was in bull form, Hercules tore off one of his horns and in doing so, diverted the river. The Naiads (nubile water-nymphs) treated the horn as a sacred object, filling it with fragrant flowers. The Goddess of Plenty (Copia) later adopted the horn, and dubbed it (appropriately enough) The Horn of Plenty, or Cornucopia. Incidentally, Hercules later married Dejanira and the two produced an abundance of children.

Ancient peoples were fond of uncovering hidden meanings in their mythological tales. The battle between Achelous and Hercules is explained by saying Achelous was a river that overflowed its banks during rainy seasons. [Read more…]