Halloween Do It Yourself Light Up Craft Pumpkins

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I have been collecting Halloween decor since childhood, and had Chase Bank actually been a little quicker with getting our loan in order, we would have been in the house sometime in the August of 2013, instead of October 3rd.

The house was and is nowhere near being ready for decorations, and there is still so much to unpack a month later, so naturally most of my Halloween goodies remained in their boxes up in the attic where they now remain. It literally took me 3 weeks to find everything, organize it in Halloween labeled boxes, and store it all away.

The good news is that I am totally ready for Halloween 2014, as I now know where everything is!

Before moving in though I created something pretty cool that I figured you do it yourself crafty folks out there would like. I created my own light up craft pumpkin string set, which when set up and put on my steps looks pretty awesome.

Here it is...

This was actually pretty simple to make, and I will have it for years and years to come, because these pumpkins do not rot!

Now my first word to the wise would be to only purchase these craft pumpkins AFTER the holiday when they go on their mega 75% off sale. Michaels and other craft stores already have them marked down. If you get them during the holiday hype, you will pay almost $30 for a large sized one, which is crazy!

Before just randomly carving into them you will want a template... you do it in the same manner you would a regular pumpkin, you hold a piece of paper with the template to the pumpkin, tape the paper on and make small holes around the template. Remove the paper when you are done tracing out the design, and then you can begin cutting.

The two bottom pumpkins were templates I found in a pumpkin carving kit booklet, and of course the one at the top is handmade, and adds such a charm. Our pizza delivery guy thought it was neat because it made finding our home easy peasy.

I did not want to use those cheap battery operated lights, not only are they weak when it comes to giving off light, but they also die fast if you forget to manurally turn them off at night.

Instead I cut a hole in the bottom of each pumpkin, and stuffed it with green colored Christmas lights. I only used one 50 light string set and simply connected them all together on the same light set.

It worked like a charm, and everyone who saw them commented on how neat they were.

So there you have it folks, a fun, simple, and pretty little addition for your steps or rail at Halloween time!





----Aside from my craft pumpkins, here was the small amount of items I was able to find. At least I had some decorations out this year.

And lastly... I had to decorate myself up for Halloween, and yes, I am guilty of this here Halloween Selfie combo shot.