I loved the white pumpkins featured in A Soft Place to Land and gained some inspiration from that post for my own doorstep. Of course, I took the lazy and cheap route, but I think they turned out beautifully.
I purchased faux pumpkins at Michael’s Craft Store. The were on sale for 40% off this past week. I found two pots to rest my pumpkins in and a bolt of black ribbon to dress up the pots.
I used my glue gun to attach the ribbon around the outside of the pot. With the leftover ribbon from the bolt, I made a bow and then tied it off with a little raffia. The pumpkins wedge perfectly in there.
I am hoping it will be something that I can use each year. I have found most of our guests think they are real pumpkins when they come over and have spent a lot of time thumping and touching them. I am not usually one to pick things that aren’t natural for decorating with, but I love being able to store these and use them year after year. If they are fooling people, then that works even more to my advantage!
Of course, if those pumpkins don’t last until next year, I have these two little pumpkins that I can set out there on occasion to dress up the step!
What are some creative ways you decorate your home for fall?
They look great! I love the black ribbon with the terra cotta pots. I think I’ll try some ribbon on my pots too.
Thanks for the link!
Kimba
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Very cute, Amy! I love them!!
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Very cute, Amy! We live in Florida, so we don’t get fall colors here. Every fall, my husband’s Grandma collects fall leaves and presses them between wax paper and mails them to us. I then take them out of the wax paper and use my xyron machine and laminate them. Then the kids help me tape them to the windows, and I punch holes in some of the lamination and we tie ribbons and hang them around the house for our own touch of fall!
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Very cute Amy. I think I may have to take a cute from you and do some fall decorating on my front porch this weekend.
And, your daughter’s hair is absolutely gorgeous.
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Nancy- I can’t wait to see some pictures!! Yes, Emily has so much hair. I have never seen a 2 year old that had that much hair. We are actually growing it out for locks of love- I know it will make someone very happy!!
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Very sweet! I need to start decorating too!
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We grow Indian corn in our garden most years. Not only can I use the ears to decorate with (I LOVE it!) but then I have my husband chop down the stalks and I tie them to the pillars of my porch. I then put pumpkins, gourds, and (of course) ears of Indian corn on the steps. It was the same decorations used for our wedding five years ago, and I love it that our porch is decorated in celebration of our anniversary.
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Oh my goodness, the kids look so grown up…and Emily’s hair! So long and beautiful.
I like the white pumpkins…they look like Bunnicula got a hold of them, remember that book as a kid? You dressed them up very cute.
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The first thing I noticed on the picture of your kids was Emily’s hair- it is the prettiest hair I’ve ever seen on a girl that young! I’m jealous- it’s soo cute!
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The pumpkins on your door step turned out great! And, of course, your little pumpkins are truely adorable!!
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the cutest dress up are the two little munchkins! adorable with a capital A.
blessings…lylah
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I would have thought they were real, too, if you hadn’t said otherwise. They look great! (This reminds me that my intention when I weeded out my stone urn flowerpot was to put a pumpkin in there…not just a bunch of black dirt. Ahem.)
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Such a cute idea! I’m loving all the white pumpkins that are out everywhere this year- they suddenly became so popular! I might have to get a few, even though I have a garden full of orange pumpkins…
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