Pretty Plastic Pumpkins

This year decided to go with something different outside. Different and cheap. I had an idea to make planters out of those cheap plastic pumpkin trick or treat baskets. I picked up 2 different baskets, at 2 different times and well they turned out to have 2 different faces AND they were 2 different shades of orange. Lessons learned. Not what I had in mind at all. Um hello - tacky? In the past years, I have had a straw witch with a straw broom, corn stalks and a huge ceramic pumpkin that I actually made when I was pregnant with my youngest... 12 years ago. Last year it broke. It was a sad sad day.
So this year a lil something for the lonely witch. Cheap plastic pumpkin.
Pretty cute huh?

Guess what ~ They light up too!

A simple simple project that pics were unfortunately taken with my iPhone. Here is what I did.
First I sprayed both pumpkins with orange paint. Yup, sprayed orange pumpkins orange. Call me crazy but I just wanted to make sure they were the same shade of orange. Then I filled in the eyes, nose and mouth with black acrylic paint.

Next I put a hole at the bottom of one pumpkins (the top pumpkin) and a hole in the back of the base pumpkin. Then I threaded in a strand of 100 LED lights. Then came me trying to decide how to keep these guys together. After trying to think of ways to tape or glue them together I came up with rocks. Yep good old fashioned heavy rocks... and it worked like a charm.

The top pumpkin actually fits perfectly into the base pumpkins so I think (hope) the weight of the rocks will keep them stacked.
Here is the finished product.

And at night

Doesn't she have the best face?

Now this simple and cheap project will never take the place of the sentimental ceramic pumpkin that I dropped, but for now it works.

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