This year, when picking out your pumpkin, try to select one that could have at least a couple of uses. If you are carving it, of course you can use the flesh for baking or a luscious pumpkin facial treatment and roast the seeds.
If you decide not to carve your pumpkin, they usually last for quite some time and well after Halloween can easily be made into a vase type holder for a fresh flower bouquet.
It is so easy and takes less than five minutes:
Click here to see how to make the beautiful, yet very easy and quick to make mason jar votive holders.
- Find a cup that is about the height of your pumpkin, a little shorter works best.
- Cut a hole around the stem of the pumpkin, using the diameter of the cup to gage how big the hole will be.
- After cutting out the top, scoop out the seeds and stringy flesh, use a spoon.
- Put your cup inside the pumpkin, fill with water.
- Arrange your flowers, you're done. Pretty!
Click here to see how to make the beautiful, yet very easy and quick to make mason jar votive holders.
Love that idea Pennie. Did you paint that pumpkin?
I think that the votive jars are really special too.
Posted by: Nat | Monday, October 26, 2009 at 09:59 AM
No paint, it is truly a white pumpkin. We have all sorts of shades/colors/textured skins here. I think I might get a bluish gray one too.
Posted by: Pennie @ Ladies Blend Blog | Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:05 AM