Primp your Pumpkins

Summer is coming to an end, school has started, and fall is on it’s way (yay!).   I love fall! This past week I’ve been going through all my fall decor deciding what I wanted to do this year in my home.  I have a good mix of fall stuff.  However, I wanted to switch it up some this year so I started making over some of my old decor.  I started with some of my pumpkins. This particular pumpkin actually started out as white and was previously a turkey, lol.  Metal pieces of wings, feet, and a beak, were once skewered through this pumpkin hence the holes.  It is now officially a holy pumpkin, lol.  No worries, I plan on covering most of those holes up.  Here is what I started with.

It’s a lovely holy pumpkin isn’t it?  Seriously though, This was a super cheap decorator pumpkin I bought a couple of years ago.  I didn’t want to throw it out, so after buying a feathery velvet pumpkin recently it inspired me to make over my old pumpkin into it’s feathery brother.  It actually turned out pretty cute!  I had the feather pick in my old fall decor stash and though there is only one pictured here I used two of them to complete this project.  You could buy a small bag of feathers rather inexpensively at almost any craft store if you don’t have anything feathery to use.  The only other thing I used in this project was my handy dandy glue gun, also not pictured(fail).

First thing I did was cut all my feathers off of my pick.  I then started gluing the longer feathers around the base of the stem of the pumpkin.  Leaving about a quarter to half inch space between each feather.  This space amount will vary depending on the size pumpkin you are working with.  Then I added a second layer of feathers in the middle of the open spaces going all the way around the pumpkin stem.  I continued this step two more times until I was happy with the feather coverage.  Here is what my finished pumpkin looks like.

Such a quick and easy update where a little primping went a long way. I love how it updated this boring old pumpkin. Thank you so much for stopping by! I would love to see your made over pumpkins of any style please feel to share them in my comments or to my Facebook page here.