I love fall. I love everything about it - football, the weather, the holidays, the leaves - everything. So I keep wondering...how soon is too soon to decorate for fall? And I've been holding off..but finally the temperature started dropping this week and I figured it was finally okay - maybe still a little premature - but at least acceptable.
I was also so excited that Tasha was here visiting from California this week - Dan was at a work retreat in Loa and Jeff at a work convention in New York, so we were both husband-less. Having her here definitely made Jeff being away for the first time less traumatic.
Jeff kept asking me what Tasha and I were going to do together, and I kept telling him we'd find something. And we did - we made fall centerpieces!
Shopping for the supplies actually took longer than making them. :-) We went all over to find the best deals on what we needed. Here's what we got...
The little bases we got (mine are gold, hers is black) were definitely our best find of the day. We headed over to the DI for those - and I got all three of those gold candle holders for $1.50! I love the DI.
Since they were just candleholders, and I wanted my pumpkins to be able to sit on top of them, I picked up some wire and wired a little platform on the top of each one. It was pretty simple, and ended up working really well.
Next we glittered the pumpkins. We used a spray adhesive, which worked well but got everywhere - as did the glitter! And I mean everywhere - I still have glitter stuck to my hands today. After we'd finished we looked just like we used to in the seventh grade - back when we'd go crazy with the roll-on glitter. Man were we cute back then. Here is Tasha spooning the glitter onto her pumpkin - 
And here the completed pumpkins and gourds...
Mine..................................................Tasha's
We got some glitter on the stems, so we used acrylic paint to hide that. In hind sight, we really glittered way too many pumpkins. They can't all fit on my little gold stands, or in Tasha's container either. But they turned out so adorable - and now mine is sitting on my table and screaming to everyone who enters the house that fall is coming and I am so excited!!
Here is my finished centerpiece (I don't have a picture of Tasha's, sorry)
11 comments:
Cuuute!! Linnea, I am obsessed with that! Please invite me to your next craft-making activity.
Yeah, I want to be invited as well. I need to be more crafty. Those turned out great!
Yay! You did just a good job! I am so jealous of your creativity! I agree, I want to be in on your fun activities! Missed you at lunch this week :(
Okay, first off I too love fall. However, I am not at all as crafty as you which brings me to my second point...we need to hang out. I would love to learn how to do something so cute and crafty as your centerpieces.
Seriously, will you be my best friend? :) I won't have much to offer to the relationship but that's okay, right?
Oh darn! That was me, not the "Relief Society" that just left a comment. Oops!
so cute!!! MAN I wish I were creative....
Haha, I totally forgot about all the gliter rollers in elementary and junior high! Good times - hehe What a cute idea! That is adorable! I'm really starting to feel crafty and I've been trying to find cute decorations for our apartment. The thing I'm having a hard time with is do fall colors match my house? I now that sounds silly but most of our furniture and decorations are red and black.... haha any way super cute - we need to get together and craft together. Oh and good work for surviving while the hubby was away - you are more of a woman than me! hehe :)
h\How creative! Lets do that when we get together. I miss crafts. It was good to talk to you the other day.
They shimmer!!! That is so dang cute! Lovely job Linnea!
I love fall too Linnea! On October 1st I am so happy-October, November, and December are my favorite months! Your centerpieces are beautiful!
Girl...these are such cute center pieces! We need to get together and do crafts some time!~
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