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Sherry's Decorative Pumpkins
Beautiful on Her Front Porch

Decorative pumpkins make great front porch decorations. Sherry, author of The Charm of Home, shows us how to create a wonderful porch arrangement using pumpkins, pots, and flowers.

Sherry's arrangement works really well on her porch. She uses simple pots, wreaths, and creativity to create a wonderful autumn display.

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Note how she placed a wreath in a flower pot and added a spider web and a friendly spider!

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Sherry writes that she had been wanting to make a pumpkin topiary so decided to try one for her porch. Here's how she put it all together.

Sherry's first step is to create an urn on which to place the topiary. Instead of purchasing an urn, she decided to make her own with materials she already had. She painted two terra cotta pots with a textured spray paint and then aged it glazing. She then hot glued them together, one on top of the other.

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Sherry repeated the process to make this large urn which were free planters from her family. She spray painted and glazed them so they looked more like stone.

Because they were so large she drilled holes in the bottoms and secured them with nuts and bolts. In the photo below, Sherry is in the process of glazing the pots with Valspar glaze in mocha.

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Finshed look!

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Gilded Pumpkins

Sherry really wanted to gild her pumpkins in gold and came up with an easy way to do it!. Spray paint them with gold spray paint and wipe it off real fast with a paper towel. It worked great!

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To make the topiary Sherry used bamboo skewers from the grocery store. If using larger pumpkins dowel rods may work better.

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We really appreciate Sherry sharing her porch decorating ideas and decorative pumpkins with us; please visit her blog, the Charm of Home, to see more decorating ideas!

Be sure to see more of our Fall Decorations,Thanksgiving decoration ideas and more autumn porch decorating ideas, too.

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