Handmade Fall Drop Cloth Pumpkins

With so many fall festivals, vintage markets and craft shows coming up  I've been busy making fall decor pieces.   I wanted to share these cute drop cloth pumpkins and how I made them.  

 

 

Quick and Easy Simple Pumpkin Wreath

I've got a quick and easy Fall wreath to show you today.   You may already have everything on hand to make this one. I did.   You'll need a small grapevine wreath, moss, a faux pumpkin, floral wire, ribbon or a strip of fabric and hot glue.   Here it is

 

 

Upcycled Rustic Pumpkin Candle Holder

Can you recognize what this candle holder was in a previous life?  

  Maybe if I show it to you upside down?

 

  Now just imagine it without paint and with a screw sticking out of the top about 2 inches.  Have you figured it out yet?

 

  It was a foot that screws into the bottom of a chair.   (I apologize that I do not have any before pictures)   I upcycled all four of the feet the same way, creating two sets of pumpkin candle holders.   Now onto how these feet became pumpkin candle holders. The screws were removed with pliers and then they were turned over so that the top was now the bottom. Using a drill bit that would fit the size of a votive candle holder, I drilled a hole about 1 inch deep in each of the four feet.  

  They were natural raw wood and didn't really need any prepping for paint, so I started painting by rubbing acrylic craft paint on them with a t-shirt scrap rag. The bottom color is terra cotta and the top is forrest green.  

 

 

The candle holders were looking a little plain at this point.   I wanted to add something to create the curly tendrils that natural pumpkins have. Rusty wire seemed to be a great rustic option and I already had some on hand! I cut four pieces of wire long enough to wrap around the "pumpkins" and have extra to create the curly part with. I did this by wrapping the ends of the wire around a pencil and stretching the curls out.   They were still looking kindof plain, so my next rustic choice was raffia. I cut a few strands to fit around the top of each one and just tied them in a bow.  

  Those additions were just enough to give the candle holders some charm.

 

 

I kept a pair to use in our cabin and the other pair went into my Etsy shop.

 

You'll probably never look at chair feet the same now.

 

 

'til next time,

   

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Rustic Burlap and White Pumpkin Fall Wreath

Oh how I love fall. The scents, the cooler temps, the colors, the coziness of it all.

I wasn't going to start decorating for Fall until the first weekend in October, but with the temps dropping a little and all of the wonderful inspiration around, I just couldn't help myself. I had to make something for Fall. I dug around in my craft stash and found a few things that got me started on this wreath.

 

This is an image I pinned last year and it is also where I drew my inspiration from for this wreath.

 

Source

 

I love the neutral, rusticness of it. (is that a word?)

 

In my craft stash I found everything I needed to make this wreath. I had 6 faux orange pumpkins, scrap burlap, twine, stencils, paint and a grapevine wreath.  

 

 

First, the orange pumpkins were getting a creamy white makeover to start this project.

I removed the brown stems from the pumpkins so that they wouldn't get painted white. I put them back in after the pumpkins were dry. I stuck the pumpkin floral pick stems in styrofoam so that I could spray them from all angles. This took a couple of coats of paint. In between these coats I started making the GIVE burlap pennant banner.

 

I cut a length of twine and also cut four 2" wide by 2 1/2" long triangles out of a manilla file folder to use for the letter pennants. I cut squares of burlap large enough to fold over the twine and cover both sides of the manilla triangles. With spray adhesive glue I attached the burlap to the triangle and them trimmed around it. I did this for each of the four letters.

Once the pennant banner was ready and the pumpkins were dry, I painted the letters on using stick on reusable stencils and black acrylic paint.

Notice the brown pumpkin stems are back on the pumpkins now :)

 

I was stumped at this point because the grapevine wreath I had wasn't large enough to accomodate all of my pumpkins without making the word THANKS look funny.

 

Then I remembered a different grapevine wreath, kindof a basket type, that I had picked up at a yard sale for a buck earlier this summer. It was larger and because it had an open basket type bottom, it worked great!

 

I tied the twine ends from the pennant around the top part of the wreath and started arranging the pumpkins on the bottom part. I used the stems to weave through the grapevine to hold them in place. The wreath looked a little bare at this point, so I added fall leaves and didn't like them and started looking for something else. That's when I found some preserved green moss. I placed it around the pumpkins and I think it was the finishing touch that the wreath needed. It kept it neutral, but added a little pop.

 

 

 

I'm thinking I'm liking the white pumpkins this year.

What about you, do you prefer orange or white?

 

Happy Fall decorating.

 

 

'til next time,

Adina


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