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A Transitional Thanksgiving Flower Arrangement---Sort Of~

Hey there! It’s the day before Thanksgiving and I, like you, have been planning for the holiday all week. This planning includes grocery shopping and food prep, among other things. Since I am not hosting this year, I have also been doing some home Christmas decorating too. In the middle of all that I decided to create a transitional Thanksgiving centerpiece. That was my goal, anyway :). I got sidelined but, I’ll get back to that in a minute.

Let’s start with making the arrangement. The anchor of my transitional arrangement is what you see below. The construction of it is made up of a variety of greens, evergreens to be exact. Normally, for a traditional Thanksgiving centerpiece I would use non-evergreen greens like leather leaf and ruscus. My thinking in using evergreens is that evergreens, if watered and kept in the right conditions, away from heat and strong sunlight, will last for several weeks and are the perfect segue into the Christmas season. I actually do not think the evergreens detract from the purpose of the Thanksgiving arrangement either. Below is shown the base for the centerpiece.

The gold balls shown here were another element I decided to incorporate into the arrangement. The gold goes along with the color scheme of Thanksgiving and yet is traditionally a Christmas element. I placed a trio of gold balls in the front and the back of the arrangement, diagonally across from each other.

Next, I placed white hypericum berry clusters around the arrangement. The white berries are a neutral part of the Thanksgiving centerpiece but can easily move on into December.

As I am sure you have experienced, once Thanksgiving is over, sometimes even on Thanksgiving evening, we move immediately into Christmas and then the Thanksgiving centerpiece is out of place and almost in the way. My transitional arrangement was supposed to be an answer to that.

This is where my idea of a transitional centerpiece went awry a bit. Once I started designing this piece, I lost the objective and added more flowers than I had planned. Originally I was going to add only a few flower clusters and a Thanksgiving colored bow. Things got out of hand.

See what I mean? This many flowers is going to make the transition more difficult. It can still be done but it will be more time consuming.

I do think the arrangement is pretty and on point for Thanksgiving but that wasn’t the total objective this time around. I wanted to show you how easy the transition would be ;/. It’s going to be harder than I planned but, please, stick with me.

Let’s try to bring this back to point, shall we? The evergreen base should have been slightly smaller and more rounded than the one I made. That would have allowed for fewer add-ons.

However, the objective can still be reached with this arrangement.

You will simply need to remove the fall colored flowers. In my case this will take a while :). Leave the gold balls, white berries and, of course, the base of evergreens. I plan on adding boxwood to the evergreen mix after the deconstruction process. I meant to include boxwood originally. I can fix that omission the second time around.

Oh yes, I forgot, you will need to remove the orange bow, as well.

Ok, now with a handful of Christmas colored flowers, maybe reds, burgundies, pinks or whites, you can transition your arrangement. The base is all set and ready to go. It’s all up to you! Start making your Christmas centerpiece. The evergreen base should last at least a few more weeks and the gold balls can stay put, of course. You can replace the flowers as needed, The final touch will be to replace the bow with a more Christmas-appropriate one.

I will make my transition arrangement after the weekend. We have a busy holiday weekend planned with lots of food and a few birthdays thrown in! However, I still plan to make the arrangement transition and will show it to you next week.