I was at Michael’s Craft Store over the weekend picking up supplies for another project, when I spied these white pumpkins. They were on sale – 40% off. I saw white pumpkins on some blogs and really liked the look. Manuela at Pleasure of Home put a crown on hers and I loved it. So I came home and scrounged through my craft supplies and found some ribbon, paint, stickers, an old dowel and some spray paint and voila — a new pumpkin topiary.
This is a 15 minute project. If you want to make one, here is the tutorial:
Supplies:
- 3 pumpkins in 3 different sizes
- some stickers
- a 3 foot long wooden dowel (you can find them at any hardware store)
- off-white spray paint
- some medium-width ribbon
- black paint
- some glue dots or a glue gun
- Gorilla Glue Epoxy
Directions:
- Spray paint your wooden dowel and let it dry.
- Take the largest pumpkin and paint large circles over it in a random pattern. Let dry.
- Take the two smaller sized pumpkins and apply your stickers to the center front side of each.
- Once your dowel is dry, stick it into your pot deep enough so that it is securely anchored.
- Take a large knife and cut a hole in the top and bottom of your largest pumpkin. The hole should be just big enough for the dowel to fit through.
- Slide the pumpkin down the dowel so it sits at the bottom.
- Do the same thing to the middle sized pumpkin.
- Cut a hole at the bottom only — of the smallest pumpkin. This hole needs to be very tight — make it small.
- Push the top of the dowel through the small hole of the smallest pumpkin.
- Apply a small dab of Gorilla Glue Epoxy where the pumpkin and the dowel touch to secure the pumpkins to the dowel. Let dry.
- Wrap ribbon around the middle of the biggest pumpkin and secure using glue dots or a glue gun.
- Cut 3 lengths of ribbon that are long enough to wrap around the wood dowel. Secure the ribbon to the dowel using glue dots or a glue gun.
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And you have your self a new pumpkin topiary!
Have a Terrific Tuesday!
XOXO
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