There are many holidays during the year that are perfect for decorating your home. Thanksgiving is another great holiday for decorating your home with things from both nature and items from the craft store. Therefore, if you are wanting to make your home look and feel festive this Thanksgiving holiday, we have some tips on how to make Thanksgiving decorations the Oklahoma way.
* Table Centerpiece - Everyone loves a beautiful centerpiece on their Thanksgiving table and it's very easy to make one. You can easily take a beautiful basket or bowl and fill it with mini pumpkins, fall flowers, herbs or pieces of beaded fruit.
* Autumn Wreath - These wreaths give a warm welcome feel to every home. You can simply start with a plain grapevine wreath and use a glue gun to attach fake fall flowers, mini pumpkins, berries and other fall foliage. To make your wreath really pop, you can hot-glue a Thanksgiving themed bow to it.
* Place Cards - For a more formal Thanksgiving setting, you can add place cards to your table. To make your place cards, you will need to cut pieces of card stock to the desired size you are wanting and fold them in half so the cards will stand up on the table. You can use Thanksgiving themed stickers or stamps to decorate your cards. The name of each dinner guest needs to be on the front of each card. You can use a marker, letter stickers or templates to do your writing.
* Napkin Rings - Napkin rings really help give off a festive feel. A simple way to make napkin rings is to use items from nature, such as acorns. Or make them out of card stock by cutting a piece of colored card stock into 2" wide x 6" long strips. Loop each strip and staple them. Using a hot glue gun to glue acorns or other fall décor to the napkin rings. Be sure to allow your napkin rings to dry completely before using.
If you are pressed for time and still want to decorate for Thanksgiving, no worries. You can still do it. Simply write your guests' names on napkins or mini pumpkins and use those for your place cards. Use fake fall leaves and throw them around your table or group a bunch of mini pumpkins together for a festive feel.
We hope you enjoy these Thanksgiving holiday decorating tips the Oklahoma way. For more ideas, visit the DIY website.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all from Realtors® Tom & Bev Herring
There's a lot of talk about ONEOK Field around Tulsa, Oklahoma and its benefits to the entire metro area. So, we wanted to talk about some of those benefits in our blog this week.
The creation of ONEOK Field will create new jobs, bring visitors and visitor dollars and help increase property values. The benefits will result in increased property tax revenues and sales tax revenues, 1.417% of which goes to the county. Tulsa is continuing to do their best to rank among the best in the nation by continuing to invest in improving in economic development.
The ONEOK Field will benefit Tulsa most by providing around 1,400 temporary construction jobs and 200 permanent positions. The field is expected to bring in an estimated 400,000 new visitors each year to downtown Tulsa, resulting in an estimated $160,000 in annual sales tax revenue for Tulsa, which will significantly help improve city's development activity.
Tulsa, Oklahoma residents throughout the region will benefit from the new jobs, the visitors' dollars, the increase in property values and sales tax revenues. They will also have the opportunity to enjoy more activities and entertainment in the downtown area.
The ONEOK Field will be a great addition to Tulsa, Oklahoma and we hope to see more like it that will be just as much of a benefit.
A few of Tulsa's schools are getting A+ for their hard work. This isn't just good news, but excellent news. Three of Tulsa's schools were awarded the Blue Ribbon Award, making them official Blue Ribbon Schools: Booker T. Washington High School, Miami Wilson Elementary School and Claremore Roosa Elementary School. This is a very special honor given only to schools that are academically advanced or have made extreme gains in student achievement. After learning about this distinguished accomplishment, we began to research how these schools have become Tulsa's Blue Ribbon Schools and we found that they have superior goals.
Tulsa's district goals include:
* Student Learning and Performance - Students will meet or exceed national and state standards in mathematics, reading, social studies and science. Students will also be prepared for post-secondary education and employment.
* Effective and Efficient Operations - Tulsa Public Schools and offices will meet or exceed standards for excellent performance. They will provide a safe and secure learning environment for each and every student while addressing knowledge and improvement opportunities. The district will also systematically deploy an alternative education for students who need it.
* Parent/Guardian Community Support - Every school community will demonstrate parent/guardian involvement and support by 100% membership in the parent/guardian association. This will help collaborate schools, parents, business, civic, community organizations, local and state agencies to support student success.
* Staff and Faculty Focus - Create a positive work environment in self renewing organizations. The district will also provide high quality development to every employee, ensure recruitment, support and retention of certified personnel.
* Performance Excellence - To win the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award by 2010. (We think the most impressive goal.) Track and tend to all of the above goals.
If you are looking for awesome schools for your children to attend along with a great community to relocate to, you can find it right here in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The community offers both Blue Ribbon Schools and a wonderful community to live.
Realtors® Tom & Bev Herring ~ Tulsa, Oklahoma Real Estate
Here's some interesting news we recently came across. The Cherokee Nation is investing in the future of Tulsa, Oklahoma. They will be launching a new tourism campaign designed to share their heritage with outsiders. 
There will be four historically authentic new tours offering insight into the lives of the Cherokee people. They will tell their story and share their lives with the general public.
Along with the tours, visitors can enjoy several historical cultural sites throughout the 7,000 square miles of the Cherokee Nation. Visitors will find that each place they visit has a story of its very own to tell of a legacy that its ancestors left for the community.
The Cherokee Nation is now inviting visitors to visit these historic places to learn how their Nation evolved and grew from it.
Tours for the Cherokee Nation are $35, which includes lunch. And visiting the historical sites is free. For more information about the tours and historical sites, you can visit the Cherokee Nation website at www.cherokeetourismok.com
We enjoy sharing news that will benefit the communities we serve and it looks like this will definitely help boost the economy in and around the Tulsa area. So, if you are interested in learning about the Cherokee Indian culture, this would be a great opportunity to benefit from the information they will be sharing.
At Tuesday night's public meeting, city officials unveiled their new ideas of a master plan for the City of Tulsa. The new plan will include many exciting proposals along with urban housing of many kinds and a train that will travel through downtown Tulsa and connect to all nearby suburbs.
Everyone in Tulsa knows that from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., downtown Tulsa is the place to be. However, after 5 p.m., it's a virtual ghost town. Therefore, there is a need for change in the city and the new master plan will be a huge help with that.
In the downtown Tulsa area, there are currently around 300 residential units that are ready to be built with hundreds more on the way. This will allow for thousands of Tulsa residents to work and live in the downtown area.
Downtown Tulsa will soon be transformed, making it easier for the next generation to come in and do their own thing in Tulsa.
More of the master plan includes changes to the East Village. It will soon include an art museum, an outdoor amphitheater, green buildings and tons of green space. Everyone has been talking "green", and the City of Tulsa is going all out.
The city now has a wonderful plan ahead of it and what could be a great future for many years to come. We can't wait to see some of these great changes start to take place.
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