In The Beginning

This is my first day to post, so bear with me. I'd like to share different crafts and ideas with you. Some may be new, some my attempt at and results of a craft idea I found elsewhere, or an emample of how to do something, some new ideas, and some old. It will be a hodge podge of crafting.

I grew up crafting. I know about different arts and crafts, but I don't know everything--no one does. There are new things being created every day. We learn these new ideas from each other. Hopefully you will have a chance to learn something new from this blog or even be inspired to create something new from what you read or see here. In any case, remember to have fun!

The first thing I'd like to share with you is decorating Fall and Halloween pumpkins. I'm talking about the artificial, styrofoam type, although some of these techniques could be used on real pumpkins as well. You just would not be able to keep the real ones year after year. I had not used the styrofoam pumpkins before because I thought they were a little pricey to "try" a decorating style that might not turn out the way I planned. That changed this year when I found some small inexpensive "fake" pumpkins. I was able to try some designs on a small pumpkin to see how it turned out. If I liked it, I could invest in a larger pricier pumpkin and not feel like I might mess it up. I bought over a dozen small pumpkins to decorate. With that many, I was glad they were small. Here are some of them.

I used acrylic craft paint and glitter paint for the majority of these. I also found some puffed foam leaves to use on some of these. I was inspired by other pictures of decorated pumkins I found on Pintrest, in magazines and around the web. In one of those pictures the pupkins were displayed on 3 candle holders of various heights. I didn't want to go out and buy new candle holders, but...someone on Craigslist had the 3 lightly used ones pictured here, for sale. So, I got them as they were perfect. I'm still decorating the rest of the pumpkins I got. So, check back to see if they turned out OK.