My (Cheap!) Thanksgiving

I love cooking for Thanksgiving. :) Love having people come over to our home, eat too much, then nap on our couches. This was our first Thanksgiving in our new house so I decided I wanted to do a little bit of decorating. But because I had just blown a crapton of money on my Halloween Birthday party I was a little short on cash.

In walks Dollar Tree! Unlike other dollar stores everything at Dollar Tree is just a dollar. Which is AWESOME! I was able to find all sorts of little sprigs of fall leaves to use for centerpieces, etc. Also, they sell table runners, placemats, and other table settings. They aren't super durable, but it's Thanksgiving! I expect a few gravy dribblies to land on the placemats, so I don't want to spend too much on them. 

We don't have a large dining room table yet and had to fit 6 people so we mushed two tables together. 

The table runner is just a piece of burlap from WalMart, I bought 2 yards of it for $6. I used it for the table runner and to wrap the napkins in. 

Here are the place settings. :)

The brown placemat was from Dollar Tree ($1), the felt leaf placemat was from Bed, Bath, and Beyond ($2). I folded our napkins then wrapped them in a bit of burlap and tied with some twine, also from Dollar Tree. Our mason jar glasses are from WalMart ($6 for 12). And the baskets are another Dollar Tree purchase full of pine cones and colored leaves.

I filled some cheap WalMart hurricane vases ($4-6 each) with popcorn seeds and candles. I made little wreaths out of leaves and put them under the vase bottoms. :)

All  in all I think it came out pretty nice! 

Really? For the pancakes?

I like pancakes. :)

However, that is not where this blog name came from. I was listening to the radio and Drake's "The Motto" came on... the first time I had heard it and I misheard the lyric "I’mma do it for the Bay, okay" as "I do it for the pancakes." And I thought to myself.. hmm.. I didn't know he liked pancakes so much.. I probably would do it for the pancakes. 

I often don't hear lyrics correctly.. For a long time I thought T-Pain was saying "I'm gonna buy you a train" in his Buy You a Drank song. -_-

Anyway, I'm not sure if I'm very good at blogging. I've never really tried it, but I don't have a long attention span. But here goes!

About a year ago I very happily purchased a townhouse with my boyfriend and we moved in together. About that same time I discovered this magical wonderland website called Pinterest. And very quickly I started pinning all of the things that I wanted to do in our new place. Some practical ideas, like having an organized pantry. Other completely ridiculous like "OMG WE NEED A FAKE ROCK WALL IN OUR LIVING ROOOOOOM!" (I haven't yet tried this one)

However, it is because of Pinterest that right now there are 4 holes in my bathroom wall and the room is halfway painted a nice soft blue color. Instead of the baby poo brown it was when we moved in. Yuck. Serious, brown? bleh.

Since I frequently take pictures of whatever I am working on, I figured why not show people? And usually projects that I think will be very difficult turn out to be not so bad.