After a great weekend at The Kane County Flea market; I am ready to get my crafting on! I love me some twine this Fall, and I made this cute,twine-wrapped pumpkin and a few other things to add some Autumn flavor and it sold right away. How cute would a few other these be on a porch or stairway?
It just took twine(2 sizes), wire, hot glue, burlap ribbon, some burned fingers, and a couple of pine cones from the yard.
I took one of these ordinary little craft pumpkins from the craft store:
and made it into this! You can do it too, and hopefully you are better than I am with a HGG. I have the battle scars and the glue gun won.
I started at the stem with my heavy twine from the hardware store and just glued and wrapped right under the stem. I twirled and glued and wrapped all the way down. Once I was past half way, I flipped it over and continued on to the bottom.
I wanted a longer bendy-type stem, so I took some black wire I had and bent it into a stem-ish shape.Since the pumpkins are some kind of foam, I just stuck it in a glued it a bit to hold it in place.
I started wrapping the wire and base in another size and color of twine for contrast.
Once I got up tot he top, I just kept wrapping and gluing until I got the size and texture I wanted.
I tied on a bit of burlap ribbon and glued a few pine cones we had and viola!
A cute little, twine wrapped pumpkin, ready for a Fall mantle and some stray leaves!
Jen
P.S. I wanted to mention I am now going to be truncating my posts in Reader.I know it's a pain and you have to click over to read the entire post, but this sweet lady explains why. I will keep the full feed on my blog for now. The short and sweet version is there are a lot of people out there ruining it for the rest of us. They are called "scrapers", and they are stealing content from our blog feeds and making a lot of money from it. I have found my things on a few of these sites and it is really disheartening. If you also want to change up your blog to make it harder to have your content stolen, check out her site, It seems excessive and makes me sad. Blogging has changed so much in the last few years.Somethings are amazing and a few others...notsomuch.
Also, I am sure you have noticed my new watermark. I am trying out the program Visual Watermark and so far, I love it.
This post is from JenniferRizzo. com
this idea is so clever. I was going to try a few burlap pumpkins this year as well!
ReplyDeleteLove the textured look! Great idea!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a great textured look! And really cute too! :) Happy week to you! xo Holly
ReplyDeleteJen,
ReplyDeleteLove this idea! I am not sure what I am doing for fall this year.My home is much different than it was a year ago.How to you create a break in your post.Is that what you are doing to make it harder for your content to be stolen.I am trying to figure out how to do that.
xx
Anne
Oooooohhhh....how cute it that! :) I just love it! I'm kind of confused about the trunacate thing, I have never even heard of this-popped over to the site you referenced and read through---will try n read some more about it. I don't quite have neat tutorials like this, so am not too sure I need to be worried.
ReplyDeleteLove the pumpkins...such a neat idea! I'm so excited for fall!!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear you've had content stolen too. I've been reading quite a few bloggers who've had the same promblems. I'm wondering how you've found out the blogs that have stolen your content. Since I'm a small blogger, and don't have project tutorials, etc., I don't think they'd ever bother with me. But, I'm curious nonetheless.
I have google analytics and I get reports for any pings on my site. I always try to back link in my blog, so that's how I get an idea.
DeleteYour twine pumpkin is so cute, what a great idea! I always lose my battle with HGG too! Too bad that there are people out there who ruin a good thing, seems to always happen doesn't it. Glad you are taking measure to protect yourself. Take care sweetie!
ReplyDeleteI haven't even retired my flip flops yet and now I'm getting ready for fall - my favorite season! What a cutie little pumpkin - pinning this!
ReplyDeleteKelly
This is a great idea Jennifer!
ReplyDeleteClever idea..
ReplyDeleteLove the pumpkin..
What a great job! I always wonder what to do with those pumpkins.
ReplyDeleteYour site is like the 3rd one this week that has discussed 'truncating'. Whatever it is clicking a few extra links here and there is no biggie. It's more fun reading the actual blog rather than a feed anyway =D
ReplyDeleteBTW: LOVE this crafting idea. It's looks fun and quick. Only question is: do you remember what size (diameter) sisal rope you used??