Janice has a work trip this week. She left this morning before 5am and won't be home until Friday. I thought this was the PERfect opportunity to take a day to myself and asked my mom to share it with me and paint pumpkins. So Saturday was my day. The day to paint pumpkins.
We were certainly more confident about all of it while buying the paint. but as soon as it came time to actually paint we completely forgot all of the cute ideas we remembered seeing.
It was a rough start for me.....but my mom kept reminding me how, this was supposed to be fun and not to worry about it. (easier said than done when you wanted super great just like the magazine, painted pumpkins)
We started by wasing them.
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| we did 3 parts water to 1 part bleach. |
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| let dry |
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| Tape the tops. always have an assistant. Any dog will do. |
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| We hand painted the tops but I think next time I might have just spray painted them the same color as the pumpkin. |
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| spray paint. you'll notice her one gloved hand. I wasn't so cautious and my hand still shows signs of black and white painting today. |
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| blow the bottoms to help dry before you set them down to spray the rest. :) |
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| let dry |
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| And paint and decorate. We also did a little bit of bling (notice my white one) These are mine. |
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| My moms. Cute right. This picture doesn't do justice to some of the little details she did to hers. |
They turned out great and we were both happy with the end product.
Today of course I have a ton more ideas and would do some things differently...but that'll have to wait until next year. if I remember them in a year. :)
