Pumpkins

Give pumpkin patch a whole new meaning with this cool crazy coat technique. Think diamonds, squares, circles, any shape you'd use in a crazy coat you gonna use in your patch work pumpkin . So to start out you need a couple of different colored pumpkins . I've got a white one, an orange one, and kind of this greenish one right here. And then because we need to make sure all of the pieces are interchangeable, you're gonna make little templates like these out of craft foams. So just decide what shape you want, cut 'em out, and the you'll use these over and over again on all your pumpkins . So I just kind of stuck it on here and then cut around to take out these diamond shape pieces like this. So I'm gonna use the white diamond shapes on my orange pumpkin , and then the orange shapes on my white pumpkin . So this is gonna have to take just a little bit of planning because you wanna make sure if you've got 6 shapes here, you wanna figure out a way to use the 6 shapes in the other pumpkin . So it takes a little bit of planning but it's no big deal. So I got some of my orange pieces right here and I'm gonna use these in my white pumpkin . So you can just pop 'em in like this. And if you want a little bit of extra security, you can use toothpicks and just stick a toothpick in the side like that. And then you can just push it in to one side of the pumpkin . In that way it'll stay a lot longer. And I'm gonna do the same for the orange pumpkin with the white diamonds I cut out. Just gonna pop a few in there. And what's great about this is actually you don't have to scoop these pumpkins out because you're just using the flesh of it. You can leave 'em nice and pulpy in the middle and just cut out the sides. It saves you a step. So I'll just push these in there. And then I found these really cool decorative staples at the craft store in the scrap booking aisle. And some of them have little spots like this, some of them have stripes like these. And I'm gonna just press these in to the sides of my pumpkin my pieces like that. They kinda look like stitches. And maybe I'll do the polka dot ones here.

Put pumpkins on a pedestal this holiday season to showcase Fall's bounty, but the secret to this idea is what's inside the pumpkin . So what's inside of my pumpkin is actually a vase. So, what you're gonna do is you're gonna find a vase that approximately fits about the right height and about the size to fit inside of you pumpkin , and you're gonna stuff it with some soaked floral foam like I stuffed this one right here. Then, you're gonna carve your pumpkin like you normally would and scoop out all the stuff inside, so you've got a hollowed out pumpkin , and I happen to have one right here that's hollowed out and actually has the vase inside as well, and this floral

These pretty little pumpkins make a big statement at your holiday table. Smaller pumpkins like these are perfect for lots of tabletop projects. So today, I'm gonna use these cute little pumpkins to make candleholders. Super easy! So what you do is you start out with a bunch of these little guys and you're gonna get as many as you need per so that every guest basically has one in front of them. And you're gonna need a cordless electric drill like this with what's called a spade bit. Now, I chose a 3-1/4-inch bit because I'm using candles that have a 3-1/4-inch base. So you get the bit that matches your candle. And what you're gonna do is you're gonna hold on to your little pumpkin really firmly and you're just gonna start your bit. Okay! So I went through my pumpkin . And now, I'm just going to use the back of a spoon. You got a spoon like this? This is a perfect small cum pumpkin -scooping spoon. I'm just gonna scoop out all of the insides of my little pumpkin like that. I happen to have one that I've already pre-scooped. It's right over here and this one's nice and hollowed out so you can see there's a nice big hole in there, a 3-1/4-inch hole, which is perfect for our candles. But before I put my candles into my pumpkins , I'm gonna kinda jazz it up a little bit. This is super easy. I started out with this floral pick and I

super easy to use. You're just kinda tuck it in to your pumpkin like that. You put them right next to one another and you can always reshape these once they're in. Then once those