When you start with blank walls, it’s so easy to start feeling like you’re over-filling the walls and starting to look like a crazy person.

She dipped each strip in the gluey water and smooshed it onto the pumpkin shape.Who doesn’t love the feeling of squishing glue between their fingers?.

In the end, we had a couple of pumpkins that looked like this!We left them to dry on some plastic wrap for about 2 days, or until they were as hard as rock.. We used some orange and black paint to make them a little bit festive and that was it!.They don’t look half bad when they’re grouped together with a whole bunch of real pumpkins in the mudroom..

This little mini guy was my test pumpkin.You can see that if you want to take your time with them and make the paper towel strips a bit smoother, that you can actually get a pretty cute pumpkin out of this method.. …or you can just let your kids go nuts and make some great Halloween memories!.

Have fun getting messy!If you don’t know about this one and you’re a baker, even on occasion, then you’ve definitely been missing out.

I live in a fairly humid climate, so I always have problems with baking supplies clumping together, but brown sugar going hard is definitely the worst.He’s actually updating the decorations by adding more pumpkins and some leaf piles since I took these, but alas, I haven’t been out there with my camera again yet..

I keep thinking that when our house is all big and fancy and renovated in a few years, these photos will make for good “first year” memories..The 13 giant maples around the property are just starting to change color and drop their leaves.

What are we going to do with all those leaves??!!?.We have some red too..