31 Days of Halloween 2012 - Day 24: 16 ADORBS No-Carve Pumpkin Dec Ideas

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I'll be honest - sometimes, I'm just straight up lazy.  If it doesn't seem that worthwhile to me, I'm not that motivated to spend time doing it - Pumpkin carving falls into this category for me.  It's cute, but the amount of work that goes into it - my goodness, it exhausts me just thinking about it.  So I've spent some time looking for alternatives.  Granted, these all take a good amount of time to do as well, but some 1.) Last forever because they're fake, and 2.) You don't get pumpkin guts on you ;)

Here are my favorites:

Decoupage:

Mod Podge a fake pumpkin

More decoupage

Embellishments:

Wrap fake pumpkins in jute twine

Glue on some buttons and tie a ribbon

Add a rhinestone spiderweb

Paint:

Puff Paint Patterns

Painted Bugs

Paint a chevron pattern

Paint them and stencil letters to spell a word

Bookshelf tree

Glitter:

Glitter that puppy up!

Glitter pumpkin topiary

Okay, so this requires a LITTLE carving, but it's so beautiful!!

Wrap it up:

Wrap it in lace

Make it a mummy

Arsenic and old lace pumpkins

Okay, okay, I forgot one, but instead of changing everything around - I'll just give you a bonus ;)

Book page pumpkin