(f)All That Glitters

Several of you have a very good eye for detail and spotted the glitter pumpkins on my table yesterday:

While glitter pumpkins seem to be everywhere now I did actually make mine three years ago. This was such an easy and fun project and as you know, something that keeps. Below is the post from October 2008; enjoy!

This past week I found this fabulous fall decorating idea (Glitter + Pumpkins + Joy) on the Dirty Martini Diaries. Since I love gold accessories and anything that sparkles this was the perfect project for me!

So on Friday evening I headed to Michael's to stock up on glitter, glue, Rub n' Buff and of course pumpkins. I think the actual creator of the project used real pumpkins, but I opted to go with the fake since they will last forever. I picked out three small pumpkins and one larger and grabbed coordinating gold Rub n' Buff and Martha Stewart glitter. I then headed home to get to work. I choose to actually cover all the pumpkins, even that I planned to glitter, with the gold Rub n' Buff. Though I was initially worried one tub would not be enough I did not even end up using a third of the product; a little goes a long way. I let the gold pumpkins sit overnight and then last night I got out the Martha glitter glue and really got to work. It definitely was more time consuming to glitter the pumpkin, but that was expected. I did the the upper 3/4's of the large pumpkin last night and finished the remaining area this morning. I am now thinking I might add a little glitter to the top of the smaller pumpkins, on their 'stems' perhaps? Maybe even some glitter polka dots too.

I think everything turned out darling. I could not be any happier and this was such an easy and inexpensive project that will hopefully last years. In fact I am so happy with how everything turned out that I am thinking of returning to Michael's and buying a bag of squash and pumpkins to make up as gifts- all fall, decorative pumpkins are 50% off this week! If you are yearning for a way to spice up your home with some festive fall decor I highly suggest looking into this!