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Coming up on this episode of "Designed to
the Nines"... this episode was shot under
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hurricane durress but I still got three
decorative pumpkin projects for you if
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that sounds good to you stay tuned
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Welcome to Designed to the Nines, I'm
NataLee Callahan and if this is the
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first time we're meeting welcome to my
channel if you enjoy learning about DIY
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and home decor then you are in the right
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don't miss a thing and I would love it
if you joined me.
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now I've got three
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great decorative pumpkin projects for
you today but before we get started I
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wanted to give a little shout-out to
what might be my youngest subscriber
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that I'm aware of anyways Sophia hey
Sophia thank you so much for watching
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and really appreciate your support and I
hope you keep watching!
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so let's get started
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we are going to be making some
pumpkin topiaries so I picked up these
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foam pumpkins and they are honestly one
of the cheapest looking pumpkins I have
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ever seen
but the goal is to kind of give them a
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faux stone faux cement with moss on
them effect when I first had this idea I
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really wanted to do real Cement pumpkins
then I decided that I just wanted to do
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something a little bit simpler that has
that same kind of look and feel so the
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first thing that we're going to need to
do for our pumpkins is get rid of all of
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these rough ridges so what I'm going to
do is I'm just going to sand them down a
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little bit and then there's like this
little seam where they put the two
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pumpkin halves together I'm sure they
use some sort of mold and then put them
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together and there's a seam and I'm
going to just take a little bit of this
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dry dex spackling and try to kind of
fill in that seam a little bit and then
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we'll let it dry and then come back and
sand it a little bit and then they will
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be prepared for our cement spray paint
it's Rustoleum's cement and there is a
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technique of spraying styrofoam because
you can melt the styrofoam if you don't
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do it right
set the pumpkins aside and now we've got
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to do the kinda like the base for the
topiary and what I decided to use was
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some terracotta pots now orange does go
with Halloween but I feel that if we are
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doing like an aged mossy cement pumpkin
that we can't just leave these alone we
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kind of need to give them an aged patina
as well and we're gonna age them with a
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little white chalk paint and I have got
to put on my gloves did you notice in
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the last segment I did treat myself
it will probably be totally ruined by
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the end of this episode okay so I'm
gonna just be taking some white chalk
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paint this one's by folk art just kind
of brush it on in like random spots then
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I've got just a little bit of water here
and a paper towel just get it wet and
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then kind of do a whitewash take your
wet paper towel and do the same thing on
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the inside so now it's time to paint our
pumpkins in this rustoleum cement paint
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the secret here is lots of little light
coats and you don't want to get too
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close you want to stay about 12 inches
away then we will flip them over and do
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the tops I picked up this dowel at
Michael's it was about $...1 I didn't
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even use a coupon but now we're gonna
measure it in half it's about 36 inches
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so half is 18 normally I would use my
saw but I know not everybody has a saw
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and so I wanted to show you another
option especially something like a dowel
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I picked up this little hacksaw at
Dollar Tree we're simply just going to
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use it to cut it right in half now we're
gonna pull out our trusty gel stain it's
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like the bottomless stain I've used this
for a million projecst and I simply just
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got one of my husband's garage paper
towels you could use whatever you have
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on hand and I'm just gonna run a quick
stain
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on this dowel so our pumpkins are
completely dry we did the best we could
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and it still did eat a little bit of the
foam
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this is not going to matter so much
because we are going to be adding some
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paint we are going to be adding some
moss so that's okay as far as the cement
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spray paint I think on the styrofoam
you'd have been fine just using gray
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paint honestly you could probably try
grey chalk paint and you probably would
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have had a better result that's my
honest feedback and we're going to pull
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out our white chalk paint and we are
going to add a little bit of dimension a
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little bit of a chalky finish kind of to - whoa!
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I left some chalk paint on my brush
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and put it in a ziploc bag I thought it
would be okay.
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it was not.
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live and learn
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a ziploc bag isn't fool proof
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we want
this to go on actually pretty dry I put
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some paint on and then I'm going to dab
a lot of it off dab it into the ribs and
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then a little bit on top here
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so I'm
just going to do this to the rest of the
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pumpkins then I'll meet you in the
kitchen
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I really just wanted to find an
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excuse to come in my newly backsplashed
kitchen if you haven't seen that video
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I'll put the link above we're gonna take
some of this Moss that I picked up from
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the Dollar Tree and we're gonna blend it
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and I know that seems kind of odd but I
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didn't want chunky Moss I don't think
we're gonna need that much so just a
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little bit I want to assemble our
topiaries first we've already added our
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foam and then we're gonna add our dowel
right to the center so that's in there
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sturdy I don't want to push this through
so what I'm going to do is I've got my drill
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it's pretty easy to do we're gonna
put on our first one facing at that
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direction we want
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if you want to reinforce you can use a
little East 6000 our hot glue or a kind
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of a combination of both
we're going to take some of our matte Mod
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Podge and just kind of brush a little on
the top as well as going down the rib of
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the pumpkin a little bit we're going to
take our moss smoothie and grab a little
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pinch of it and just sprinkle it and kind
of tap it down
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if you want to see another Pottery Barn
dupe, you're gonna want to stick with me to
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the very end that's my last project so
our second project is as I found these
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kind of paper mache pumpkins at Joanne's
and I thought that they were so cute and
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I decided that I wanted to decoupage
them and cover them with some fun fabric
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now I selected these two fun fabrics the
first one is kind of a black and white
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polka dot and the second one is kind of
like a smaller Buffalo check and I did
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this because I'm actually gonna put
these on my front porch I know that
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sounds crazy because they're paper mache
but I think that once we cover them in
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fabric and then I also have this
waterproofing spray that I'm gonna put
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on them and they're not going to be in
direct water it's a covered porch and
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I'm going to kind of put them in the
back area you don't just have to use
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fabric there's lots of options when
decoupaging obviously you could use tissue
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paper you can use napkins you could use
this Buffalo check orange scarf both of
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these I found out like the Dollar Tree
so those are some options as well but I
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really liked these fabrics and I kind of
had a vision in my mind for what that
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would look like so you'll find that my
style's a little bit country a little bit
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rock and roll there's a little Osmond
plug for you so we have kind of like the
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gingham and the polka dot which is a
little bit more country but we're gonna
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make it a little bit rock and roll
because I'm going to paint the stem and
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the leaves in kind of bold colors the
stems are actually going to be black and
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then we are going to paint the leaves in
like a kelly green we're gonna start by
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doing the leaves first so we can get
paint all over if we get some on the
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pumpkin itself it won't matter because
if we're going to be decoupaging the
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best way to do glitter is mixing it in
with the Mod Podge and I went with a gloss
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because then it will have like a shine I
didn't want to matte down the glitter
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because that would kind of defeat the
purpose we're just gonna very carefully
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put some of this glitter Mod Podge on the pumpkin.
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now our glittery leaves have dried I'm
so excited because they turned out
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fantastic mixing it in with a Mod Podge
makes it so it doesn't flake off and
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make a huge mess so anytime I now
glitter anything this is going to be my
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new technique because otherwise it makes
a huge mess and this way it really
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contains the glitter you still get the
sparkle it's time to start mod podge-ing
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and what we need to do is cut
strips of fabric so the first thing
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we're gonna do is find our wider ribs of
the pumpkin and you want to measure at
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your widest spot and then we're going to
measure from the base of the stem you
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always want to take your measurements at
the widest point of the pumpkin we're
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gonna touch the stem and we're going to
measure we've got our pieces cut out and
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now we're ready to decoupage them on I'm
gonna be using matte Mod Podge I want
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the gloss versus the matte so I am gonna
use the matte decoupage on the pumpkins
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you want to brush a decent amount of
decoupage on the back of the fabric
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making sure it's pretty saturated we are
going to take our fabric we want the
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fabric to just meet the stem as you go
you want to just try to work out any
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wrinkles it's going to take some
decoupage and put this on the top
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use the decoupage and your brush to kind of
work it into those crevices working out
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some of those wrinkles I'm just going to
take some blue painters tape I don't
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know I didn't do this to begin with and
just kind of tape these two leaves up
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and out of the way
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so you know I love to do Pottery Barn
dupes... all designer dupes I've done a few
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others as well if you're interested in
those I'll put the playlist above but
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I've got another good one for you today
and it is a Pottery Barn kind of Twiggy
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pumpkin cloche and it has like fairy
lights on it and I just thought it was
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so cute and it came with a price tag of
about $60 so we're gonna try to recreate
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the same look for Less I got this
grapevine off of Amazon and I believe it
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was about $7 for 15 feet and I had been
trying to go into my local craft store
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and I couldn't find one so I went to
Amazon and actually it ended up being
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cheaper we are gonna try to build the
pumpkin out of this grapevine wreath and
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hopefully we'll get a pretty close match
to create the base I create something
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similar to a nest
leaving a space big enough for my candle
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to fit in and securing it all together
with strategically placed wires okay so
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now we have the base for our Twiggy
pumpkin and you can see that the candle
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fits down in there just fine and now we
need to build the top part of the
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pumpkin and we are going to cut it off
in sections to form the pumpkin ribs I
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cut nine inch sections and make sure
each end is secured with a wire either
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then why are each rib tightly to the
base working in cross sections to finish
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it off I start out by hot gluing the top
of each rib to the stem just to add a
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little support while I then weave the
wire in and out creating kind of a web
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effect and finish it out by wrapping it
around the base of the stem we need to
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add the finishing touch and onforu
sent me it was actually pretty
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fortuitous because I actually needed the
fairy lights for this project and they
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sent me a pack of these fairy lights and
they're really cute I'll put the link
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below and all we need to do is just
twist them into place
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well my pumpkin projects are done and
overall I am happy with the results
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I was a little rushed and so they're not
as perfect as I would like them to be
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but I am facing threat of hurricane... a
couple of things that I did learn if I
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were to do these faux cement ones again
I would probably go ahead and splurge
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and spend more money on a nicer pumpkin
because I think that we would get a much
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better result but for less than five
dollars for each one it's a good result
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but not a great one and I also think if
we were to use these same pumpkins if we
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went ahead and used chalk paint we would
also get a more smooth better result but
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they're cute and I do like them and then
we have our decoupage fabric pumpkins
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that are just they are so cute they are
they might be my favorite
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I don't know you'll have to let me know
which one is your favorite you will
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probably be seeing those make an
appearance on my fall front porch coming
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up here soon and then what do you think
of my pottery barn dupe? I think that
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that's a pretty decent look I felt a
little rushed so I think if I had had a
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little bit more time I could have gotten
it a little bit better but overall I am
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happy and you know what I'm gonna let
myself off the hook there is a hurricane
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headed towards my house I do want to let
you know how much we appreciate your
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support we do feel safe and secure where
we're at or taking adequate preparations
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and I'm gonna do the best I can to
update my community page so if you want
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to keep up to date with that you're
gonna want to subscribe to my channel
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below if you liked this episode go ahead
and give me a thumbs up thank you so
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much for watching now I've got to go
busy getting my house ready for a
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hurricane see ya
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