Topiaries for Fall
I love pumpkin topiaries and have often wondered if they were real pumpkins or faux pumpkins.
I love both but I wanted to use them again in the future and through Thanksgiving. I have had pumpkins start to rot after a freeze and wanted to avoid that, so I purchased the fake kind from Michaels.
The other thing I wanted to avoid with using the fake pumpkins was chasing them down the street, finding them in the neighbors yard or in my case in the lake after a storm. How to put theses pumpkins together? I have lived far enough from a town in my many years of living in western Kansas and now living here in a lake community that I just don't pop in the car and go to the store, I improvise. I had my husband (who sometimes graciously helps me with my ideas) cut an old metal broom handle in two parts.
He put the metal post through the large pumpkin from the bottom and then added the second pumpkin the same way.
We then placed the pumpkin in the jar of plaster-of-paris. The little pumpkin is just sitting on top by itself, yes I may have to chase that pumpkin down sometime. I then added a few sprigs of fall leaves and some Spanish moss.
Beautiful sunshine on my fantastic (I think) pumpkin topiaries. Lovin them!
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This is awesome! I wish I could get my fall decor together on time!
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Thanks, fall seems to come easier for me than Christmas!
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