Pumpkin Patch

It's only September, I know, but a friend of mine and I decided to get a head start on Autumn with a variety of pumpkin craftiness. I had sent her a list of several Pinterest options and we narrowed it down to three, which was about all we could handle in an afternoon.

The first ones on the list were glitter pumpkins. We bought some Dollar Tree pumpkins of different shapes and sizes along with glitter spray paint in orange, purple and green.

This was the easiest project since all it involved was spray painting some pumpkins and waiting for them to dry. Oh, and of course, washing your hands for about 23 minutes to get the excess glitter off.  They turned out exactly as anticipated, despite some tiny holes in the original pumpkins, but I figure we can just turn them around.

Next on the list was a Mod Podge pumpkin from Urban Daisies. This was the most time consuming of the bunch because each little piece of paper had to be Mod Podged (that's a verb, right?) onto the bumpy pumpkin and smoothed out with our fingers. We took off the stem so we could add a twig stem at the end.

The book we tore apart for this project was a Dollar Tree book, so I felt slightly less awful for ripping out the pages. We added some moss in green and purple from Michael's and a twig found in the yard for an added rustic look.

You can't really tell from the photos, but we used a shimmer Mod Podge which gave the paper a more aged, slightly shimmery look. The craziness of the moss is so fun. I {love} how these turned out!

Finally, we reached my favorite pumpkin from Everything Under the Moon. We bought the pumpkins from Michaels along with the most perfect yarn. Ever. Despite not being able to find my stash of glue sticks for the glue gun, we managed to secure the first piece of yarn to the top of the pumpkin (with household cement... which smelled like industrial strength stuff, so I figured it would hold). After that, it was as simple as wrapping the yarn around the pumpkin. I didn't keep count, but I assume it took about 487 revolutions and almost all of the yarn to complete.

Just like the last pumpkin, we took the stem off to make the wrapping easier. I didn't like the way it looked to just attach the stem back, so we added some moss to finish it off. We finished all three projects in less than 3 hours and had a blast catching up in the process. The pumpkins look so good, I'm not even going to wait until Autumn to display them. 

I'm glad I got to try a few of the projects from my ever growing list of Pinterest DIYs. There's always a great sense of accomplishment when you set out to do a project and it turns out better than expected. Here's to the upcoming season of Autumn and many more crafts!