I'll show you how...

A couple girls asked how I made the little pumpkin head man that my halloween bear is holding a few posts back. So, since I was making a bunch more this afternoon I thought why not show you.. So you start with miniature plastic/ styrofoam filled pumpkins.. If you can find white, buy them.. It was cheaper for me to get these and paint them, though I do prefer the other.

I painted them off white, which I didnt have,
so I mixed a little white with a tiny bit of goldenrod yellow.

After you paint them white.. splatter them with a little bit of orange, tiny splatters. I water the paint down a little bit, dip the brush in and then tap the paint brush with my finger to cause tiny splatters.

Then paint your faces on, how ever you want them to look..

While my faces were drying I made collars for them out of black crepe paper.

I then folded some fairly heavy wire , like shown below

and put it through the head like this...

then through a collar,

and then into the pumpkin body.

I did add a little bit of hot glue and held it tight for a minute

to make sure it was going to hold.

I used some black halloween ribbon and tied a bow around his neck.

Then it was time for his arms and legs.. just cut some pipe cleaners,

either orange or black to the lengths you want

and stick them right into the pumpkin body.

Then use a pencil or paint brush to curl the ends of the pipe cleaners into little tendrils to make hands and feet!

Then TA-DA! You have a little pumpkin head man!

I put witches hats on a couple of them too and made a garland of them.

in other news... my car is broken.. some pipe or line or something that goes to the radiator..

poopie..

so, i'm home for the weekend

creating

and

cooking..

maybe even a pajama day tomorrow,

its supposed to be cold and rainy.

i'll cuddle with my kittens!

look! all my pictures are little!

gotta go kitten cuddle now

night!