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Thanksgiving!

 

Thanksgiving Day is the fourth Thursday in November and it dates back to 1621. When Puritans, who had just enjoyed a bountiful harvest, showed their gratitude to the Native Americans for their help by hosting a feast to give thanks. It eventually became a national holiday in 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving. Later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt clarified that Thanksgiving should always be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month, never on the occasional fifth Thursday, to encourage earlier holiday shopping. The Thanksgiving feast almost always includes some of the foods served at the first feast: roast turkey, cranberry sauce, corn, and pumpkin.

Here are some fun facts about Thanksgiving:

• The preliminary estimate of turkeys raised in the United States in 2009 is 250 million.
  
• The forecast for U.S. cranberry production in 2009 is 709 million pounds.
  
• Benjamin Franklin thought the wild turkey was so American it should have been chosen as our national symbol rather than the eagle. 
• It is common for U.S. astronauts who spend Thanksgiving in space to celebrate with a rehydrated turkey dinner.
  
•  There are three places in the United States named after the holiday's traditional main course. Turkey, TX; Turkey Creek, LA; and Turkey, NC.
  
• There also are nine townships around the country named Turkey-- three in Kansas alone. 
• There are eight places and townships in the United States that are named Cranberry or some spelling variation of the red, acidic berry (e.g., Cranbury, NJ). 
• The National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation is a ceremony that has taken place at the White House since 1947. Every year two turkeys are selected and given to the President for his Thanksgiving dinner. However, since 1989 the turkeys have received Presidential pardons, sparing their lives.
• Everyone at Creative Imaginations would like to wish you a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving!  We hope you enjoy your day surrounded by the love of family and friends.  

Everyone at Creative Imaginations wishes you a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving!

Thankful Cards

In our home, preparations are already underway for the holiday!  Most of our Thanksgiving meal has been purchased, decorations are up and I have started making my cards for my family and friends. 

This year I decided to give each friend and family member a card with a personal message inside letting them know how they have touched our lives!  Creative Cafe makes it so easy with matching papers, ribbons and buttons...each card was created in a snap!

 

 

Above cards designed by Roree Rumph

Supplies:

Creative Cafe Lucky

Fallen Leaves!

I'll bet you didn't know that leaves are really red, yellow, orange, and brown all year long; we just can't see it! The intense green pigment of chlorophyll actually blocks the pigments of the other colors. You could say that the other colors are "invisible". In the Autumn season, red, yellow, orange, and brown become visible and bright when the green chlorophyll weakens before the leaf falls off the tree!  For our family, Autumn means pumpkin patches, apple picking and hay rides!

Creative Imaginations released some additional papers and embellishments to our popular Art Warehouse Harvest Moon Collection.  From adorable little pumpkin edged papers, gorgeous flocked paper and die cut leaf edge papers, creating that perfect layout or altered book has never been easier!

Crazy Jack's Scrap Shack!

New Scrapbooking Store Opening!!!

Value Pricing in an Upscale Environment!
Crazy Jack’s Scrap Shack is not your average scrapbook store…
Looking for amazing deals on discontinued and overstocked items? This is it!
You won’t want to miss the insane deals on quality products in limited quantities
by:
Creative Imaginations · Bazzill · Pioneer · Hambly · My Minds Eye
Reminisce · Northridge Media · Cosmo Cricket · Fancy Pants and Petaloo at prices only a crazy person would offer and only a lunatic would miss out on!

Doors Open:
Thursday, November 12th @ 10:30am

GRAND OPENING:
Saturday, November 21st

MEET THE REAL CRAZY JACK! at Noon

(Rumor has it he’ll be on furlough from the asylum!)

Locationed at Promenade in Woodland Hills
(Upstairs next to the theaters and food court)
6100 Topanga Canyon Blvd. · Woodland Hills, CA 91367
818-704-8855 · www.CrazyJacksScrapShack.com

Autumn Mini Album

This little mini book is a snap to put together for all your Fall photos.  Just cover each of the Bare Elements 4x6 cards with Art Warehouse Harvest Moon papers and embellishments and add your favorite photos from the season!

 

 

Autumn Mini Book Supplies

• Art Warehouse Harvest Moon Collection 
• Bare Elements Talon Cards
• Parts & Parcels String & Things Mini kit
• Creative Cafe Buttons