Happy Halloween! Boy is Pezza excited! We are having a few neighbors over for pizza and then heading out to load up on candy. It's a strange phenomenon really - I just threw out the last of her Halloween candy from last year BLECH!
Today is one of those days when I realize I have far more on my to-do list than is humanly possible! I got all of your bday party invites done so we can hand them out at school when we go eat lunch with her today, then prepping for an Origami Owl party tomorrow, my kids mixed media class after school, home for dressing up and off to trick or treat and SOMEWHERE in there I need to go into town and buy a big table.
I wanted to put up a quick post though - awhile back my friend Suzanne posted a link on Facebook to some velvet pumpkins and I about died when I saw the price! A set of 3 was like $78 or something ridiculous! Especially ridiculous because I knew how easy it would be to make them myself and so I set about doing that and am just now getting around to posting it!
One important thing about the pumpkins - they had REAL actual pumpkin stems so that was my first mission. You can buy them on Ebay (can't you buy EVERYTHING on Ebay?) But I was not going to pay for that either! I got lucky, hubby makes fun of me because I always just kick our rotting pumpkins right off the porch into the flower bed behind the boxwoods - so guess what I found back there? Dried pumpkin stems! Yea baby! I also went up to the nursery that had a pumpkin display and asked for stems that had fallen off - the guy thought I was nuts. He kept saying So you just want the STEMS???? Then he turns and calls his buddy - HEY! This crazy lady wants pumpkin stems! I told him it was for a project that was really popular in blogland. He said he didn't even know what that was. BUT he said I was welcome to walk around and collect any pumpkin stems I found so I did. I also thought I would make it to a pumpkin patch and get some more there but that has NOT happened. BOO.
Next the velvet. Now real actual velvet can be pricey and to be honest the fabric stores near me are quite lacking in the velvet department - NO good colors. But they did have this velvet knock off stuff at Joanns - only three good colors and I didn't make it the hour to the good fabric store to look for more colors either. So I made do with what I found cheaply and easily and here ismy little set:
SO EASY! I just cut the circles - didn't even try to make them perfect - and then stitched a large stitch around the cut edge. you want big far apart stitches not close tiny stitches with a good heavy thread.
Then I just pulled the thread on one side so it gathered up the fabric, stuffed them and pulled tight so the opening was small. I knotted the string and glued the stems on with a hot glue gun. Start to finish it was probably a 30-40 minute project!
I hope you all have a great time tonight whether you are collecting candy or disbursing it!
Super cute Marti! I will have to try them!
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