{"id":3663,"date":"2011-09-30T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frykitty.com\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2011-09-30T07:28:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T12:28:43","slug":"a-month-of-spookdays-pearl-dots-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/?p=3663","title":{"rendered":"A Month of Spookdays: Pearl Dots Pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pop art by day, luminary by night!<\/p><\/div>\n

I love this thing. I had a couple of false starts, but the project was a lot of fun. Easy, too, if you have the right tools.\u00a0 Seriously, I wouldn’t have attempted this without a Dremel and a flex-shaft attachment.<\/p>\n

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  1. Cut a large hole in the bottom of the pumpkin, so you can place it over lights.\u00a0 I use electric tea lights, because the smell of burning foam gives me an awful headache.<\/li>\n
  2. Mark out your grid. I used a measuring tape to get the lines where I wanted them.<\/li>\n
  3. Punch out holes with your Dremel.\u00a0 Wear gear! Foam dust goes everywhere, no lie. My dust mask was AWOL, so I had to use a bandana.\u00a0 Call me Dremel Bandito.<\/li>\n
  4. Give it a few coats of white paint until you’re happy with the finish.\u00a0 I used Ceramcoat Oyster White.<\/li>\n
  5. Next, a coat of pearl. I used a pearl glaze by Making Memories.<\/li>\n
  6. Once everything is dry, play connect-the-dots with a sharpie.\u00a0 I originally started with black paint, but I just couldn’t get enough control on the uneven surface.\u00a0 That part of the project will be forever known as The Back of The Pumpkin.<\/li>\n
  7. Paint the stem black. Always paint the stem last, so you can use it to hold the pumpkin.<\/li>\n
  8. All pretty!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have one more craft pumpkin, a tall black one. I want to use the Dremel again, but this time I want to actually move it around and carve something, instead of just punching holes like a weenie.<\/p>\n

    Here is the video that got me started:
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    Have fun!<\/p>\n

    And now, a few linkies from today’s mining:<\/p>\n

    Three cute project ideas from Creative Blog<\/a>
    \n    Pumpkin Topiary from Simpsonized Crafts<\/a>
    \n    Ten truly lovely projects from Tatertots and Jello<\/a> I want to do that specimen art.
    \n    Four Halloween Advent calendars from Tip Junkie<\/a>
    \n    Surprisingly simple and elegant Frankenstein’s Monster (yeah, they just say Frankenstein, but I’m too nitpicky!) glass block<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I love this thing. I had a couple of false starts, but the project was a lot of fun. Easy, too, if you have the right tools.\u00a0 Seriously, I wouldn’t have attempted this without a Dremel and a flex-shaft attachment. Cut a large hole in the bottom of the pumpkin, so you can place it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-month-of-spookdays","category-spooky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spookymoon.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}