1Twine Leaves
Look for a variety of fern leaves to create a nature-inspired pumpkin you can put on your front porch our scatter about the yard.
To make: Draw leaf shapes on the pumpkin with a pen. Attach gardening twine over the drawing with hot glue.
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2Flower Power
Artfully arrange cleaned and dried pumpkin seed flowers with acorn top centers on a classic orange pumpkin.
To make: Start by cutting small circles of craft paper (about a 1/2-inch diameter). Hot-glue the pointy ends of the seeds around each circle to create the petals, then cover the exposed center with a small acorn top. Use craft glue or hot-glue to attach the flowers to the pumpkin in a haphazard fashion.
3Wreath of Plenty
Grasses come in all colors, shapes, and textures, creating infinite opportunities for embellishment.
To make: Craft a wreath from dried millet and hare’s-tail grass to circle the stem of a larger pumpkin, such as a blue Jarrahdale (middle), or use a wispy grass such as stipa to crown a small white pumpkin (bottom center). Glue stems of puffy hare’s-tail grass (far left) at differing heights around a white pumpkin.
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4Moss, Lichen, and Pumpkin Wreath
Create a textural wreath by incorporating different types of moss, such as Spanish moss, preserved forest moss, and dried tree lichen.
To make: Cover a 12- to 16-inch foam wreath form with clumps of moss and lichen, attaching with hot-glue. Glue tiny bits of moss and lichen around the stems of mini white pumpkins, then secure to the wreath with floral pins and wire.
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5Pretty Plummed Pumpkins
Feathered friends lend their plumes to help create these fancy pumpkins. Perfect for your fall tablescape all season long!
To make: Hollow out a tall gourd such as a Hubbard squash, and slice a sliver off the bottom to help it stand. Place a piece of damp floral foam inside and fill with feathers, foliage, and flowers (here, roses and ranunculus). For the festooned pumpkins, use hot-glue to cover with long turkey (large) or pheasant (small) feathers. For the larger pumpkin, finish with wispy green chicken feathers around the crown.
6Leaf Etched Pumpkins
Take inspiration from nature to create these pretty leaf etchings.
To make: Start by tracing leaves on a pumpkin with a pen. Use a thin linoleum cutting tool to etch each leaf outline and stem, then a wider linoleum tool to remove the skin inside the etched outlines, exposing the flesh.
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7Flower Tower
Create a stunning centerpiece for your fall table of buffet with a stack of pumpkins and loads of seasonal flowers.
To make: Start with three white pumpkins that stack nicely. Remove the stems from the bottom and middle pumpkins. Insert three wooden skewers into the bottom of the middle
pumpkin, then pierce the skewers into the top of the bottom pumpkin to help hold them together. Repeat with the top and middle pumpkins. Using long floral greening pins, attach small pieces of damp floral foam where the pumpkins meet. Insert flowers (here, dahlias, ranunculus, and roses), foliage, and privet berries around each tier.
8Felt Flower Wreath
Choose any color flowers you like to make this simple yet charming wreath.
To make: Make or buy felt flowers and leaves. Hot-glue flowers and leaves to a grapevine wreath form and hang with a length of ribbon.
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9Monochromatic Dried Flower Pumpkins
Create monochromatic pumpkins to match you decor by using dried petals (like blue hydrangea) or whole buds to cover a pumpkin.
To make: Separate the petals from a dried flower and hot glue onto a pumpkin until it is entirely covered or use buds to create a pattern on the pumpkin, attaching them with hot glue, too.
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10Stadium Blanket
Bundle up with an embellished blanket while enjoying cool nights on the front porch.
To make: Topstitch chenille letter and numbers onto the blanket or adhere with iron-on fusible tape.
11Braided Rope Wreath
The neutral tone of this twine wreath makes it the perfect choice if you want a one-and-done wreath for the whole season.
To make: Wrap a wire wreath form in thin jute rope. Cut six long lengths of the same rope you used to wrap the wreath form. Hot-glue one end of three lengths together. Repeat with the second set of three lengths. Braid rope bundles together. Hot-glue braid to the wreath form. Attach an oversize bow, made from upholstery jute webbing, with hot-glue.
12Sporty Centerpiece
Forget the ho-hum glass vase and opt for a vintage football helmet filled to fill with fall blooms. To keep it steady, wrap a 3-inch embroidery hoop with jute ribbon, and center the helmet upside
down on it. Fill a glass vase with water and place in the helmet; add flowers to vase (here, butterfly ranunculus, chamomile, and brown-eyed Susans).
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13Class Rings
Napkin rings, that is. As the cool weather sets in and sports ramp up set a table with school spirit by using old buttons.
To make: Wrap an unfinished wood ring with thin neutral twine. Open each pin back and thread the spear through a few strands of the twine, then close.
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14Brown Transferware Pumpkins
Becky Luigart-Stayner Turn your favorite collection into spectacular pumpkin decor! Here, inspired by antique brown transferware, pumpkins get a Mod Podge makeover.
To make: Color copy your favorite transferware plates and platters. Tear or cut the copies into strips, about 1/2- to 1-inch wide then use Mod Podge (any finish will work) to attach strips to white pumpkins.
15Tiered Colander Pumpkin Display
Becky Luigart-Stayner Stack vintage aluminum colanders to create a picture-perfect kitchen display.
To make: Cut pieces of floral foam to fit in the bottom and middle colanders. Push colanders into foam to help them stay in place. Place pumpkins around the bottom and middle colanders and completely fill the top colander. Add bittersweet sprigs throughout.
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16Cloche Covers
Becky Stayner Pumpkins displayed in vintage glass cloches add a dramatic pop to fall decor. Round out the setting with vase full of fall leaves and a cozy wool blanket for keeping the chill away.
17Bead-and-Wheat Wreath
Enjoy this fall wreath on the front door or above the buffet all season long.
To make: Make six to eight bundles of dried wheat and/or dried pampas grass, holding the ends together with brown floral wire. Starting at the bottom, use wire to attach bundles to a beaded wreath form (each subsequent bundle will cover up the wire of the previous bundle). Cover the wire of the last bundle with jute ribbon. Use a second length of ribbon to hang the wreath.
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18Crock Pumpkin Perch
Becky Luigart-Stayner This display just screams fall! Decorate the front steps or stoop with a menagerie of flat, wide pumpkins and mums perched on crocks.
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19Grain Sack Pumpkins
Becky Luigart-Stayner Take inspiration from a country classic—vintage French grain sacks —for this years pumpkin decor. Display on the front porch, maybe next to a bench with pillows covered in grain sacks, to create a warm fall welcome.
To make: Simply Mod Podge striped ribbon either vertically or horizontally around white pumpkins. Display stacked on pumpkins, benches, or stools.
20Leaf Motif Pumpkins
Becky Stayner Greet trick-or-treaters and well-wishers with a wheelbarrow stuffed full of painted on and decoupaged leaf motif pumpkins. Bulk up the display with no extra work by including loads of varying size and color pumpkins
Make decoupage leaf pumpkins: Cut out leaves and flowers from new or vintage wallpaper or wrapping paper. Decoupage to pumpkins using Mod Podge.
Make painted leaf pumpkins: Use a leaf-shaped stencil to paint fall colored leaves on green, blue, or white pumpkins. Once dry use a white paint pen to outline the leaves, add veining, and decorative details.
Charlyne Mattox is Food and Crafts Director for Country Living.
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