After fall is over, I swear I'm going to have to rent a storage unit to store all the decorations that I made this year! This one was, of course, Pinterest inspired. Although I have seen them all over. The real reason I chose to do this project, other than it's obviously adorable, is because it involved materials that I didn't have to go buy. I had everything at my house, which I bet a lot of you do too!
The first step was to go pick out my pumpkins! I wandered out to the pile of wood in our shed, and found four lovely, different sizes of 2x4's / 1 2x6. Then my dear husband trimmed them to the right size (I am not allowed to use the saws because I am far too clumsy, and have a tendency to cut myself with non-moving, non-rotating at a million miles an hour, sharp things. You can understand why this is the way it is). I grabbed a roll of wire and some raffia, along with my box of paints and the "pumpkin stems" aka sunflower stalks that I had left over from my last project.
I actually found an acrylic paint called "pumpkin orange" but I didn't want it to bright so I muddied it up with some purple. Waited for it to dry, which was like 2 minutes and hot glued on the cute little stems!
I wrapped the wire around a couple of them, and curled it at the ends using pliers to add a cute factor/safety factor. (I told you I cut myself a lot) Pointy wire is no excuse!
Tada. It seriously took me like 15 minutes total and I love them!
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