Because my son is only two, I can get away with not going ballistic for the holidays. This means I don't have to jingle bells outside his window during Christmas, I don't have to have 20 kids over for his birthday yet, nor do I have to carve pumpkins.
Call me a buzz kill if you must, but I actually hate carving pumpkins. It's messy, gooey, and I have to clean up dried pumpkin off the floor for weeks. Plus, the pumpkins always seem to rot pre-
Halloween, and then I have a big orange stain on the cement outside my door.
So, this year, we decided to "paint" pumpkins instead of carve them. It was cleaner, more fun, and a lot less messy. We got the idea from
Country Living and
Family Circle.
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| We started out our pumpkin painting day as we do with so many events: with wine, cheese, olives, and fruit on the back deck. |
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| I painted the front and back of my pumpkins so I could enjoy the view of them from both sides |
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| This was inspired by the creepy Raven poem (Edger Allen Poe, I think?) |
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| This is my son's pumpkin. He's already an artist! |
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| My husband--a huge Oregon Duck's Fan--painted his pumpkin green. Then he put glittery gems in the shape of an "O" on it. It reminds me of Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz. |
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| My sister painted a creepy brown recluse on one side, and painted the backside black then carved out another web. |
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| An easy idea for the non-artistic. All you need is a white pumpkin and black paint. |
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