With glitter season (as in Christmas) right around the corner, I thought it was about time to break out my trusty glitter set for some festive, seasonal decorating! And as you might remember from last year, I love me some glittered pumpkins. I was originally planning to something similar to the pumpkins from last year, possibly adding some glitter polka dots but discovered that my Mod Podge had dried out.
Not willing to put off glittering for another day following a trip to the craft store, I tried to think of a plan B. I found this glue pen around the house, and decided to see how it worked.
For the first pumpkin, I decided to try out a swirly pattern in what I thought was a rosy gold glitter, but actually looked more like an amethyst out of the bottle. I probably should have planned the pattern out a bit better, but I began by drawing swirls from the stem down using the glue pen.
And sprinkled liberally with glitter! I just love sprinkling things liberally with glitter! It’s always so pretty! Some people think messy, I think magical.
Anyways! When the swirl pattern started to prove somewhat challenging to continue in a uniform fashion all across the pumpkin, I decided to go with a less-likely-to-go-wrong polka dot pattern for pumpkin #2. As expected, this moved a lot quicker than my swirly pumpkin.
After the the glue has dried (I left mine on the front porch for a couple of hours), you can remove the excess by lightly tapping he pumpkin and wiping the glitter out of the creases with a paper towel.
I paired them with a third pumpkin which I had decorated using rhinestones and a glue gun (sometimes referred to as bedazzling). I did attempt some pictures of this process, but since the bedazzling took place later in the evening, none are of blog-worthy quality. I’m really trying improve my nighttime photography skills, but am not so pleased with most of the results thus far. Please feel free to share any tips!
Well, photography rant aside, I’d love to hear what you think of the pumpkins! Did you decorate any this year?
