Thanksgiving Day is not far away, and November 26th. The big event of the day for most families is a family get together over a traditional Thanksgiving Dinner.
What will you be doing to make this Thanksgiving Dinner a great and memorable success?
In the lead up you might want to get the kids busy making Thanksgiving table decorations, and other Fall crafts decorations for your home. There are a lot of good ideas at this site about Thanksgiving activities for kids.
One of the ideas I especially liked at that website was having the kids prepare a scrapbook of the day. All the preparation, photos, autographs, what was said and done - all these things and more could be kept to remember a special day.
Another I liked was how to make Pilgrim hats and Indian headbands to dress up like they did back in 1621.
With the Christmas holidays also fast approaching, perhaps you need to download a more comprehensive book of craft activities for kids, with hundreds of ideas covering seasonal activities all year round.
If you are busy with work or worried about all that preparation for the traditional turkey dinner, the answer for you may lie in this step by step guide to Thanksgiving recipes, and how to prepare a wonderful traditional dinner with minimum fuss.
And here is an interesting idea - why not make it an educational experience for the kids and have everyone dress up in Pilgrim costumes to recreate the First Thanksgiving Dinner? If the expense of buying ready made is too much, what about just wearing hats? Or having the kids make simple craft Pilgrim hats for everyone to wear?
Some people have some crazy ideas, and I think one of them is to dress your pet up in a pet costume.
Halloween pet costumes are an old favorite, I guess to get people going all ga ga and giving more sweets to the trick or treaters! But dressing your pet up for Christmas was a new one for me.
For all that, there is no denying these two dogs dressed up in Christmas pet costumes as Santa's Elves can't help but bring a little cheery smile to your face.
They look to be happy enough about being dressed up.
So maybe there is nothing wrong with pet costumes for Christmas Day. It might just add another cause for fun, provided the pets love being the center of attention and aren't ridiculed or distressed by the whole affair.
Elvis Presley is remembered not just for his music, but also for the stage costumes he wore for his performances. He started out in the 1950s with the leather jacket and jeans style of costume that was popular at that time. It suggested motor cycles and a touch of rebellion, which I guess was what rock and roll was about as it started.
But it's the pretty dramatic and somewhat raunchy jumpsuit costumes that Elvis wore later in his career, after he began to base most of his performances in Las Vegas, that he is mostly remembered for.
Many of the Elvis jumpsuit (click on the link for more photos) costume designs were very elaborately decorated with rich embroidery and other features, and were really expensive works of art. They are collectable or museum pieces not just for their association with the king of rock and roll, but also because of their interesting leading edge design and workmanship.
With Halloween just around the corner I was thinking about Halloween party costumes, and, wow, I found this amazing racy Robin Hood costume for ladies.
How sexy can a costume get?
Just love that vampish red feather in the cap.
Leather and lace make a great combination, don't you think?
Seems like Robin Hood is "in" this season, with Russell Crowe making a new movie version of the Robin Hood legend. Lets hope it will be another gritty story like his Gladiator character. Whatever you think about Russell Crowe's reputation for shenanigans off screen, he can sure put on a great screen performance.
Stephen Fry has a rare talent for situation comedy, which he demonstrates in this hilarious unexpected encounter with a rare and endangered ground parrot, the kakapo, in a remote corner of New Zealand. This is a frustrated bird that makes no secret of his desire to prevent his species becoming extinct, but perhaps hasn't quite got his implementation plan sorted out yet! It had my friends and family rolling in fits of laughter - so see what you think!
