Its not the size that matters........

As it gets closer to Halloween those small pumpkins they sell at the grocery store get cheaper and cheaper. Most people buy them and just leave them plain to use as filler decor. Some get a little creative and place them in flower arrangements or cut out the top and use them as candle holders. I usually don't bother with these pint size pumpkins mainly because YOU CAN'T CARVE THEM! This year however my clever sister in law used them as favors for her Autumn themed wedding. Most people just drew funny faces on them with pens and didn't even bother to take them home. I grabbed a bunch and decided I would figure something to do with them eventually. I only took one that had been drawn on because the doodle was just too good to pass up, the rest were naked (haha naked pumpkins). So after a few days of brainstorming and creating I thought I would share with you what my crazy imagination coughed up.

The first one I did was the one that had already been drawn on. I simply used my old cuticle cutter to scrape the image out, then used an exaco knife with the smallest chisel blade I had to make the image deeper. I used the same technique to scrape out the word BOO on another lil pumpkin. I sponged on some black to help the images stand out better (plus its black and orange traditional Halloween colors), and glued on on top of the other.

My next idea kind of came from necessity. I have a "Funkin" or fake pumpkin I bought last year and decorated it with a black glitter spider web. I did also make another "Funkin" with a large spider carved into it sut SOMEHOW that one never made it up from Texas when my parents sent me my belongings. So I decided to make a spider for my web. This one was easy easy easy.....oh and did I mention it was easy. I simply painted a face on the pumpkin (I went with something that wasn't too cartoony but also not realistic), then poked 4 small holes in each side and added pipe cleaners and it was done.

For my last one I examined the dang pumpkin for like and hour before taking notice of how the very bottom kind of resembled the iris of an eyeball. I took a permanent marker (you could use paint if you wanted) and drew in the other parts of an eyeball and highlighted the "iris". I ripped up some white cloth into strips and used tacky glue to adhere them all around the pumpkin. To me it sort of looks like a monster eye from something Dr. Frankenstein might have made.

There you have it 3 ideas for the cheapest of all pumpkins, the tiny pumpkin!