These glitter pumpkins are on ApartmentTherapy.com, which is a really cool web site.
These are NOT glitter pumpkins, obviously, but they are decorated. Simply tie some black tulle on the stem and voila! Oooooh, or you could wrap the whole thing in black tulle, and they could be pumpkins in mourning.
It's decidedly creepy to drive by someone's house at night
really slow and stare. I think Emily Post even wrote a chapter on it. If not, she should've.
But Vickie Rounsaville-Millard might be offended if you didn't stop and stare, especially this time of year when's she's gone ALL out for Halloween at her home near 31st Street on 89th East Ave.
As I tell y'all in my Sunday story about Vickie and her family's over-the-top scary decorations, the Millards have put up a double-take-worthy display featuring scary-movie psychopaths, vampires, gargoyles, a spider web-cocooned corpse, skulls with sound effects and a half-eaten body with guts spilling out in front of a crib with bloody-faced zombie babies. It's really cool during the day, but it's a total trip at night, when she turns the Halloween lights on.
A ton of work is involved, as Vickie started the second week of September setting everything up. She and her husband will fashion body forms out of PVC pipe, then put some of their daughter, Taylor's, old Halloween outfits over them, like Michael Myers from "Halloween."
"Go green with Halloween!" Vickie said of her recycling costumes. And then she stabbed me. Muah-ha-ha-ha-ha-HAAAA!!! OK, not really.
Anyway, to make the blood and guts more realistic, Vickie takes an empty Windex bottle, fills it with 2 tablespoons of Karo syrup (the dark kind, not the light stuff), mixes it with water and squirts on her ghoulish decorations to look a bit ... Well, fresh, I guess.
Those who want to celebrate Halloween -- or fall, period -- without blood and guts, and don't even want to wield a knife on a pumpkin can still set some festive gourds on their porch in lieu of plain pumpkins.
The fix-it, spruce-it-up gurus at Westlake Hardware shared this do-it-yourself project for sparkly pumpkins. You need a level surface, preferably outside, I would imagine. If you use a table, be sure to arrange newspapers or some kind of drop cloth over it so you won't get paint on surfaces you wish to stay clean. When it's all said and done, it should only take you about 45 minutes, which means it'll take me about 90. But I can't wait to try this ...
Prized Glitter PumpkinsSeveral small pumpkins or gourds
1 can Krylon indoor/outdoor primer
2 cans Krylon Glitter Blast paint in color of your choice
Masking tape
1. Clean surfaces to be painted.
2. Mask off stems.
3. Prime pumpkins by spraying with Krylon primer, then allow to dry.
4. Spray with Krylon Glitter Blast, then allow to dry; re-coat with paint if necessary.
Tip: Slightly elevate pumpkins 4 inches off table to allow access to the rounded bottoms of the pumpkin while spraying.
Peace, love and Karo syrup ... XOXO
