DIY Gold Studded Pumpkins

Hi there! I am back after an awesome family weekend – full of all the fall goodies! Pumpkin patches, a local fall festival, Fall Front Porch decorating, soup in the crockpot and lots of snuggle time on the couch with cozy blankets catching up on the new seasons of our favorite shows. It was perfect!  Last week I shared a few fall decorations around our house and am finding myself surprised at how I am slowly getting more and more into decorating for Fall & Halloween! I made these fun DIY Gold Studded Pumpkins with Dollar Tree supplies and thought I would share them with you today!

HOW TO MAKE DIY GOLD STUDDED PUMPKINS

I picked up 3 glittery black Styrofoam pumpkins from the $1 bins at Target awhile back and in the midst of some purging & organizing over the weekend (I forgot to mention, I did lots of this too) I found them!  After I made this happy little discovery, I remembered I bought some gold thumb tacks at the Dollar Tree a loooong time ago with hopes of taking on a different project.  Well, that never happened, so I had a brand new pack of 300 shiny gold thumb tacks ready to be put to good use. In my DIY gold studded pumpkins! 

Total project cost was $4. score.

DIY GOLD STUDDED PUMPKINS SUPPLIES

I won’t share the step-by-step instructions, because there wasn’t all that much to it. Basically, I took a handful of tacks and pushed them in to the pumpkin creating my design as I went. I made 3 designs: an arrow / chevron pattern, a straight line one and then a monogram one with large “B” in the center & then a small T, R, H & S along the sides for each of our initials.  I didn’t have a plan in mind, but these are what I came out with.

Have a look…

After they were finished, I pulled out some old candleholders I had spray painted gold and decided they would make perfect pumpkin stands. I set them in the windowsill of our formal living room.

These are fancy pumpkins, right?

For such an effortless project, I am more than happy with these blingy little things.  I actually might have to make some more DIY gold studded pumpkins!

Have you hopped on the thumb-tack or nail-head pumpkin train? What about painting pumpkins – given it a shot? I think I see spray painted pumpkins in our future!

Hope to have you back here with me again soon. Thanks for reading!