Thanksgiving creations and getting ready for Christmas

I am the homeroom mom for both the girls' classes this year. So for this year's Thanksgiving Feast in W's class I wanted to do a bunch of creative things. Such as jello jigglers shaped as oak and maple leaves in orange, red, and green for fall.

We also did leaves of cheese

And we topped it off with some mini corn and a croissant to resemble the 'cornucopia'.  Later one of the teachers said I should have cut the croissant in half to resemble it better, great idea for next time :)  Oh and don't forget the turkey shaped turkey slices!

 Now that Thanksgiving is over its time to pull out all the stuff for Christmas. If you'll recall I got 2 more new trees on sale last year after season for like $8 or something! So this year I have 9 trees up and decorated. I'll have to show u pictures because each one has a theme. I uploaded pix to fb with my new phone but I can't figure out how to download those to my computer yet so those pictures will come later :)  Here is what I was faced with when I began though...

My 'gift closet'  crammed packed with gifts for the girls (mainly) for Christmas (and other holidays). At this moment I can't even walk in there without stepping on something! In the next few days while the girls are at school I will need to pull that stuff out and get it wrapped.

This was one (of two) of my Christmas decoration storage closets. You can't tell but its crammed from floor to ceiling , front to back, with boxes. The joys of pulling all that out to get started-eek. I love decorating trees, but looking at these boxes can sometimes be intimidating, so last year to make it easier I organized all the ornaments/boxes based on themes. So now I just set each tree next to its corresponding box of ornaments and I'm good to go. That way I don't have to search for stuff or traipse from room to room gathering ornaments, they are all right there organized based on color or theme so when I change my themes or colors each year I can easily find the right box with those ornaments in it. Smart thinking, eh?  :)

And this is a cherry pie/cobbler thing I made for thanksgiving, it was so cute I just had to take a picture too :)