DIY ~ Make a Junk O'Lantern

by Barb Rosen

You know, the drawer where you toss things that you might need some day but don't really have a clear category for organizing them? Well, I decided to decorate a pumpkin with junk drawer findings to thin it out. So this little $2.00 pumpkin will be dubbed a Junk O'Lantern. Here's how I made her!

Junk O'Lantern

First, gather materials from your junk drawer and get a pumpkin! Plan your pumpkin face by laying out the features. Then hot glue them right onto the pumpkin (some of the keys were inserted into the pumpkin).

Plan and lay out the pumpkin face.

Okay, in the spirit of fun and Fall, my good friend Melissa (a.k.a. The Empress of Dirt) and I are hosting a competition to design the best pumpkin faces. Knowing us, you know there aren't a lot of rules, just that it must be original, a pumpkin with a face and appear on your blog.

So you bloggers out there, jump in and have some fun with us! You can even enter more than one pumpkin! If you aren't a blogger, you get to be a voter and decide which pumpkins are the funniest, scariest, weirdest, most creative and most likely to be made into pie! All the details for entering the contest, voting and the linky party can be found by clicking through to my blog post at the bottom of this page. Submit and vote through Sunday, October 26th.

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Swan Road Designs on Oct 19, 2014
How cute. I just might have to rummage through our junk drawer, plus I have 3 styrofoam pumpkins I bought just to fiddle with. Thanks for the idea. P.S. How's D.C.? I lived there for 30 years before moving here.

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- Barb Rosen on Oct 19, 2014
  @Swan Road Designs ~ if you make some pumpkins and blog about them, enter our contest! I live in Delaware but get to D.C. a few times a year.
  
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141737 on Oct 19, 2014
I agree with @Sensible Gardening and Living -- it's a Jack Sparrow O Lantern! And totally cute with his corky do!

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- Barb Rosen on Oct 19, 2014
  @Empress of Dirt - Melissa Pirate Pumpkin, I love it! : )
  
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