DIY: Painted Pumpkins
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| Painted Pumpkins |
Well, you all know how much I love painting furniture and frames. Why would I stop at pumpkins? The kids were quite excited about the opportunity to transform the orange pumpkins we found at the super market.
Our first stop was one of my favorite DIY stores – Hingham Lumber in Cohasset to catch up with my friends in the paint department. I picked up some gold spray paint for the smaller pumpkins.
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| Krylon spray paint |
Conor giggled all the way through spraying the pumpkins. Once they were dry we brought them around to the front and put them in our ‘summer planters’ the pink flowers have now died off leaving just potato vines.
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| Gold pumpkins |
The gold pumpkins were looking a bit lonely and Conor wanted to paint some more. So we got our Annie Sloan Chalk Paint out – I had a mixture of Duck Egg and Provence from the china cabinet in our kitchen and we thought that would make a nice un-orange color.
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| Conor painting a pumpkin with ASCP! |
I can only imagine what was going through Poppy’s head as she watched us (probably “crazy humans”):
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| Poppy wondering what we’re doing… |
We thought it would be fun to put our house number on the pumpkin so I printed off a spooky font with our house number and put some carbon paper behind and traced the numbers with a pen.
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Then I filled in the numbers with ASCP in Graphite:
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What a fun and unique touch for your porch, Danielle. The freeze last week did a number on my potatoe vines! 🙁
What a fun family craft project! And I totally love the house number pumpkin – just might have to steal that idea!
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nice Danielle. not sure where you find the time!! good for you.
So cute! Love the house numbers on it! I’d like to invite you to my party, Twirl & Take a Bow at http://www.houseontheway.com. Hope you can join in on the fun.
Leslie
The blue with the numbers is such a cute idea. I’d stop to take a closer look if I happened by. I bet your son had fun!
Liz
Love the blue, and the numbers are a great idea! Thanks for sharing.
LOVE them! Really like the numbers.. neat look…. i bet some cool old typewriter letter stenciled on there would look neat too…
found you on shine on friday hop…
Diane
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Great idea! I love the addition of the house number. Your dog looks very sweet 😉
This is a great idea, Danielle! Thanks so much for sharing on Marvelous Mondays!
Loving the blue color and the house numbers, a great idea. A great craft idea for the family, looks really nice. Thanks for sharing your inspiration with Sunday’s Best – you helped make the party a success!
I like the mixed color! Good idea to put your house number on it. Thank you so much for sharing this at Rustic Restorations Weekend!
Cute! Would lovet o have you join my linky party if you’d like:
http://westernwarmth.blogspot.com/2012/10/weekend-warmth-5.html
What a very unique idea, never thought of this.
Happy to feature you at the party this morning!
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