Your Thanksgiving feast can be fancy or informal, large or intimate, even homemade or store-bought. As local interior designer and author Kathryn Greeley sees it, those little things aren't what matters. What really makes the difference is that your holiday celebration is your own.

Everyone has a unique "personal style," she explained, and she sees Thanksgiving as just the time to tap into it.

"Style is a way of saying who you are without saying a word," said Greeley, owner of Kathryn Greeley Designs in downtown Waynesville.

What speaks to you and what you're passionate about can come through, she went on, regardless of whether you're spending hundreds of dollars or next to nothing on your Thanksgiving meal. Greeley, who's known across the county (and beyond) for her parties, is used to ...