I was so excited yesterday because I thought it was the first day of Fall. I had been waiting for it all week so I could decorate. When the 22nd finally came, I pulled out my fall decorations.* Then I looked it up and realized the the first day of fall wasn't until the next day: today. Whatever. I started the season a day early.
My new addition this year is the book page pumpkin.
I used the tutorial from this blog.
It was really fun and easy to make, and only slightly tedious to cut through the 400 pages of the book.
*Ok, so those are the only fall decorations I have right now. I have a festive wreath for the door, but I'm having trouble finding our wreath hanger after the move. I have some Halloween decorations, but I refuse to put those up until October 1st. So this is what we get for one more week!
Happy real First Day of Fall!
6 comments:
So cute! I am totally doing this :) Thanks for sharing!!
Your pumpkin turned out so cute. I made some too but they aren't quite done yet. Yay for fall.
In the back of my mind I keep thinking that this would be slightly faster to do on a bandsaw, rather than 5 pages at a time with scissors. Anybody have time or resources to try this out?
I think it's funny that pretty much all I could think about while looking at your pumpkin was, "I wonder what book that is and what it did to deserve being turned into a pumpkin." That's a punishment I would reserve for only the most truly heinous literary crimes like Brideshead Revisited or A Farewell to Arms.
I will sheepishly admit to staring at the full size image of the pumpkin and trying to pull out identifying information from the snippents of text I could see. I got the names Mireille and Nim which pointed towards a late 80's thriller called The Eight. I would be extremely interested to hear if I was right.
Neil is weird. But I confess I am curious to know if he was right or not!
I love your decorations. I'm not sure that I am ready for it to be Fall already. In California I can prolong the delusion that it is still summer for a couple more weeks, at least!
Whoops! It occurs to me that "neil" might actually be Ashley--in which case "Ashley" is not weird. Ashley is just way cleverer than I am because I was wondering what book it was too but it never occured to me to try and see the words...
But if it IS Neil, he's still weird.
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