Blue pumpkins

Don’t you just LOVE the blue ‘fairy tale’ pumpkins!

I can never seem to FIND the real ones to buy though. sigh.

When I found these two ‘squatty’ metallic pumpkins on a recent thrift store run, I decided to try to make my own!

Craft paint to the rescue!

I gave them a couple of coats of my new shade of aqua paint, hand sanded a little bit and brushed some antiquing medium into the creases.

Not quite as subtle of a blue color as the real ones, but I love how they turned out.

I was going to keep them for myself, but I decided to take them to Farmhouse Rustic.

Hopefully I can find more of this shape of pumpkins to paint for myself!

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On September 23, 2015 at 9:55 am Ruth Anne said:

I love your blue pumpkin! I have a squatty one like yours that is currently silver. It will be so nice dressed up in a lovely shade of blue! Thanks for sharing your great idea.

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On September 23, 2015 at 1:11 pm Ramona K said:

The blue pumpkins look way better.

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On September 23, 2015 at 3:23 pm Sharon said:

Love the color! Think I’ll give it a try! 👻

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