If you have not figured it out by now, I really love Halloween. I am not sure why, I just do. And one of my favorite parts of the season is the glorification of the pumpkin. I love pumpkins, both as food and decoration. I decided I wanted to make pumpkin soup a while ago, and could not find canned pumpkin, so I bought 3 small baking pumpkins, convinced I would make my own pumpkin puree. When I found the canned stuff the next day, I opted to use it for the soup instead and was left with the pumpkins.
While I love carving pumpkins (last year I did 5, no joke) and baking the seeds, these were too small for that, and I knew I was never going to be ambitious enough to cook them and make the puree to freeze, so I decided to do something different. I painted them. But not the average painting, oh no, no faces or anything.
I painted to 2 bigger ones black, and the smaller one white, then used orange and purple paint to put designs on them. I was going to get real elaborate, and then seal them with mod podge, until I realized they were either going to be rotten in 10 days, or destroyed by the neighborhood kids, so, I just kind of tried to be artsy.
Here is the result:
I then decided to put them outside. I had found some cute little lanterns at Target, and we light candles in them at night, so I am hoping it will be a nice effect.
We may still carve a pumpkin, if we make it to the Renshaw Farm and Pumpkin Patch on Sunday. But if not, the porch still looks pretty cute.