An Autumn Coffee Table Vignette
August 30, 2012
I worked on an autumn coffee table vignette today. It started with finding some orange mini pumpkins at the Dollar Tree. Of course they look a little fakey, (they cost a dollar), but decorating this early and while it's this hot, I worried that real, mini pumpkins may get moldy. Here is the the Dollar Tree pumpkin on the left, just as I purchased it. The one on the right has been touched up. The original is just too bright orange and too shiny. I squeezed a little blob of Walnut Noyer Ceramcoat acrylic paint on a paper plate and watered it down quite a bit. I then took a half sheet of paper towel, scrunched it up and wet it a little. Then I dipped it in the watery walnut paint. I dabbed the pumpkin on and off until the paint was not too dark. The pumpkin has a sort of mottled look like real ones that are a little green and dirty from being just picked. This is not as easy to see by the photo, but the stem was solid green and plastic. I took yellow paint and wate