Let’s talk pumpkins… AGAIN! I do love them and I bet you could have guessed that. Last week I shared the first part of 100 FABULOUS PUMPKIN IDEAS and today I’m sharing part 2. It’s a pumpkin palooza! I hope you will find lots of ideas and ways to decorate with pumpkins this fall!!! So, let’s get started…
I’ve been learning how to create videos for my blog and other social media outlets. I hope you will enjoy the pumpkin ideas you find in this video…
Now for the rest of the pumpkin ideas!
- stack white platters and line up a trio of orange mini pumpkins on them
- use washi tape to make stripes down a pumpkin
- use cookie cutters and a hammer to cut out interesting patterns on a pumpkin
- write guests name on a mini pumpkin and use it as a place card
- put a black witch’s hat on a pumpkin and carve a scary face
- use thumbtacks to decorate or write something on a pumpkin- black thumbtacks on a white pumpkin looks amazing
- carve a pumpkin then use an apple corer to cut out holes in a pumpkin
- put pumpkins on hay bales
- put baby boo pumpkins in little-whitewashed terracotta pots
- add a pumpkin to the seat of an outdoor rocking chair
- use caulk to create designs on a faux pumpkin and then paint over it- so pretty!
- spray paint a pumpkin a wild color
- glue berries and brambles to make a collar around the pumpkin at the base of the stem
- stencil a design on a faux pumpkin
- create confetti pumpkins by punching out circles of tissue paper in many colors and gluing it on the pumpkin
- Cut apart paper doilies (gold) and paste on a pumpkin
- paint your door number and your state on a pumpkin and put it outside your front door
- tuck pumpkins between the books in a bookshelf
- perch a pumpkin on top of an old scale
- fill a tiered tray full of pumpkins, acorns, and mini pinecones
- put mini pumpkins in some of the holes of an old muffin pan and votives in the others
- glue mums and leaves to the collar of a faux pumpkin
- put a Halloween mask on a pumpkin
- write the letters of the word BOO or THANKFUL on each pumpkin and line them up across your mantel
- wrap the middle of a pumpkin in bittersweet or grapevine or both
- tie a thick black and white checked bow around the middle of a pumpkin
- fill an unused hearth (or crate turned on its side) with assorted pumpkins
- put a tall pumpkin in the middle of a cake plate and put food around it
- use permanent marker on a pumpkin to make interesting designs
- chalk paint pumpkins in assorted colors that work with your decor and collect them together in a big bowl
- tuck a little pumpkin into every vignette in your home
- put a tiny pumpkin next to a small vase of flowers in your bathrooms
- put a man’s bow tie around the middle of a pumpkin
- put pumpkins in outdoor garden boxes and containers
- cut a faux pumpkin from stem to stern and use it as an ice bucket for drinks
- use a pumpkin as a baker- see a great recipe here
- spray metallic spray paint directly into a bucket of water and dip a pumpkin in it for a gorgeous gilded look
- line up little pumpkin in window transoms
- decorate a wreath with pumpkin
- put twiggy candle rings under small pumpkins
- line up little pumpkins on your windowsills
- use a big pumpkin to stick skewers of fruit into for a party
- put pumpkins on the steps of an old ladder and use for outdoor decor
- cut the top third of a pumpkin off, scoop out the guts, add a clear bowl about the same size inside the pumpkin and use as a punch bowl
- line your walkway with lit carved pumpkins
- fill a flat white tray with candy corn and nestle little pumpkins down in it
- tie old keys with twine around the neck of a white pumpkin
- fill an old wooden tool box with pumpkins and other fall elements
- pop off the top of a faux pumpkin and add a small decorative knob- see a tutorial HERE.
- decorate pumpkins with stickers like spiders, dots, bats, etc.
Phew!!!!! 100 Fabulous Pumpkin Ideas!!!!!
I hope you will be using some to decorate your home this fall!
Wow, so many great ideas!! Thanks!
Thanks for all of the great ideas! It’s time to gather the pumpkins!
Oh Yvonne, I am so with you on the Pumpkin Love! My husband & kids think I’m obsessed…and I am! How can you not love these beautiful fruits of the bounty at Harvest time? Love all of your ideas, thank you so much for sharing!!
Blessings,
❤Beth
Love pumpkins and all your ideas.Unfortunately they may have to wait till
next year as we are in the path of Irma
Doreen – We are also awaiting Irma. Stay safe!
Stay safe and do what the authorities say, Doreen and Carol. I am praying for everyone in Irma’s path.
Thank you so much for all your great ideas..and I do use many of them. It’s still hot in Texas, but next week when home from vacation decorating begins!!
This year I have been focused on pumpkins and stepping out of my traditional comfort zone. I love your ideas of the blue and neutral colored pumpkins. I love fall and your ideas have my creativity kicking it up a notch. Thank you!!!
Great! I want everyone to kick up their creativity a notch!
Who would have thunk so many pumpkin ideas
I love these ideas. I also love pumpkins!!!
Thank you for sharing so many wonderful pumpkin ideas! I can’t wait for fall!
Yvonne. Your “pumpkin” ideas are so inspiring. I love everything you do!
Yvonne, I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for all the hard work you put into your blog!
It has come such a long way since you first started and you have done an absolutely amazing job!
I truly admire everything about you. Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate reading them, they are always inspiring! I also opened my Autumn Cottage Journal last month and first thing I saw was your house! I shouted out to my husband, “My friend Yvonne has her home in Cottage Journal!” He said, “Do I know her?” “Well, she is my blog friend,” I said. He looked confused. LOL! So happy for you!
OF COURSE WE ARE FRIENDS, JODY! We have just never met! Thank you for your very sweet and encouraging words.
Love these ideas. Love everything pumpkins. You always do a fantastic job of decorating your home for Fall. I look so forward to seeing everything you do.
Wow! That’s a lot of ideas to get the creative juices flowing! Thank you!
Pumpkins!! Those are all great ideas. I can’t wait until pumpkins show up around here. It’s always fun to decorate with them. Thanks for all the ideas!
hugs,
Cecilia
Thank you for the pumpkin ideas.
Joan
I love your pumpkin ideas.
Marion
WOW! Those pumpkin ideas are gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.
Marilyn
These are all great ideas! Thanks for putting them together for us. I definitely have the two blogs pinned to my Fall Pintrest board.
Yvonne! You are making everything SO difficult for me! 🙂 All of your inspiring ideas for fabulous pumpkins have left me with so many choices, I’m having a time deciding which one(s) I want to do! I keep changing my mind. Your posts could not have come at a better time. Since the beginning of the summer, I’ve been in a creative funk…so dry. I tried several things over the summer to “jumpstart” myself and…nothing. I just recently started following your blog and what a difference you have made! I’ve been reading all of your posts and studying all of of your Pinterest boards and slowly but surely, I’m feeling my creative side coming back to life. I have started an inspiration board in my office with ideas I’ve gotten from you, thank you for sharing your marvelous mind!
What wonderful simplistic pumpkin ideas! Awesome! I’ve been inspired!
Love your blog today Yvonne. Fall is so beautiful and all the vibrant colors. I will be dreaming about pumpkins tonight-ha-ha!!!
Loved your video ! I’m getting into the Fall mood. On Halloween I celebrate 3/4 of a century on this wonderful planet Earth. My decorating is going to be over the top , and you’re the first one I come to for ideas.
Soooo many wonderful ideas for pumpkins! Thanks for your ideas!
I think I love pumpkins almost as much as you…and I love mums!! I can’t wait to use some of these tips!!
My oh my!!!! Love the 100 ways to decorate pumpkins!!!! All are beautiful God bless
Oh my love the 100 tips on decorating pumpkins Wow!!! Yovonne your videos are great and keep up the great work Please keep all in path of these storma and fires!! We here in Georgia have a lot of clean up with trees limbs and yard depree God bless and thank you
love your video…. Love all your ideas …
OH MY!! OH MY!! More great inspirations to get those pumpkins and decorate every nook and cranny of the house and outdoors You are quite an inspiration for me Thank you and God bless
I’m always reading great ideas in your posts. I hadn’t thought of doing several of these easy to do decorating ideas. I like the idea of lining my windowsill with pumpkins. I liked the idea of putting fruit kabobs into a pumpkin as a serving display idea. My favorite idea is the spray paint in water! Happy Saturday!
Happy Saturday and Happy Fall Yvonne….hope you are well and enjoying your Fall in that great state of yours!….Have always adored your pumpkin decor!….Have a fabulous weekend!!!
Hello sweet friend! Happy Fall to you!
I have one more for your list. Buy a package of little plastic mice. Cut little round holes all over the pumpkin. Insert a mouse in each hole. Have some mice peeking out of the holes and some with their tails sticking out. A mouse hotel! It’s not glamorous but very cute. I got the idea from Martha Stewart years ago and had fun doing it with my grandchildren. They loved it!
So cute!
Love all the different ways you decorated with the pumpkins.
So many wonderful ideas. Now the job is to see which ones to use. Thank you so much. So many ways I have never thought of.
I love the pumpkins, particularly the ones covered in blue and white napkins. Where can I purchase the napkins? Help!!
Go here: https://www.stonegableblog.com/chinoiserie-pumpkin-diy/ and the info is in the post. Hope this helps.
So many cute and classy ideas! I washed my pumpkins, as suggested by one of the bloggers in your group, and I really think they are lasting longer. I pulled one out yesterday and cut it open to put my dip in for a chip & dip tray!!I have enjoyed your pumpkin posts so much that I will be sad to see the season change. However, I am sure you will keep us entertained with festive ideas!!
Wow! I may have to plant a pumpkin patch next year! All these ideas are great! Thanks
LOL!! I love hearing from you Cecilia from Georgia!
We have grown pumpkins that past few years and I love it! I have 3 on our porch right now. 🙂
So many pumkin ideas – what a great resource!