Fall Nesting

All around the internet, bloggers are putting up "fall nesting" posts, showing how they decorate their homes for what I consider to be the best season of the year. :o)

Decorating my own home for autumn is probably as fun for me as decorating for Christmas. I start in September with basic Fall things, pumpkins, gourds, etc., then in October the Halloween things are added in. On November 1 the Halloween gets put away and Thanksgiving comes out. One of my most favorite things to use is real mini-pumpkins.

I enjoy using a variety of textures in my decorating and crafting, so when I saw the proliferation of glittered mini-pumpkins that made blogland sparkle last year, I had to try them. Unfortunately I did not photograph each step of the process, but it's fairly elementary - you brush glue onto a pumpkin, then either sprinkle on the glitter or roll it in glitter. I did a little of both.

The glue was Elmer's white glue with a touch of water added to make it easier to brush. The glitter was Martha Stewart (got it on clearance at WalMart).

Here is the final product:Shortly after I started glittering my own pumpkins, we found out we were hosting a 50th wedding anniversary celebration, and had just two weeks to put it together. These pumpkins worked very nicely as part of the table decorations.

After the anniversary, they were used for my Thanksgiving decorating.
These glittered pumpkins added an easy and inexpensive (did I mention I grew the pumpkins in my garden?) sparkle to our Autumn celebrations!