Bats!

I found something to do with that extra pumpkin from the too tall pumpkin tower - I had ripped out a magazine page from Better Homes and Gardens in 2005 and stuck it in my idea file and of course forgot about it...till now. I modified their example slightly by using a package of foam bats already cut out, glued on orange paper eyes that I hole punched out of scrap cardstock, hot glued them to 20 gauge wire that I found in the floral section at craft store, stuck them into holes in the top of the pumpkin and hot glued them in place, then covered the holes with some natural excelsior moss. You can bend the wire any which way to place the bats where you want them. This would be cute with any Halloween or Fall shape you want - leaves, pumpkins, turkeys, whatever!

Pumpkin Tower

Thought I'd make a tower of pumpkins to put outside our front door, usually I put a carved pumpkin in the birdbath but this year wanted to try something different. I bought three different sizes of carvable fake pumpkins (10", 12", 14") to stack up - once I did it though I decided three was too tall and it looked like the leaning tower of pumpkin...plus how to anchor so it wouldn't fall over in the wind?

I started by cutting a hole in the bottom of the smallest pumpkin, to fit over the second pumpkins stem - I had to carve off some of the top to make them lay flat against each other, then I hot glued them in place.




For the third/bottom pumpkin I cut off the stem and used 4 skewers to attach it to the middle
pumpkin. It worked fine but was too tall and tippy - so I removed the bottom one and like it much better that way. I'll find another thing to do with the white one...

 I finished by putting an inexpensive grapevine wreath on the birdbath,  stuck down the 2 pumpkins in the birdbath with some museum putty (earthquake proof sticky stuff that almost has the consistency of chewed gum), and filled around the pumpkins with natural excelsior moss.