Our front door was in serious need of some TLC!! We have lived at our house for 5 1/2 years, and its something about my house that drove me crazy, but I never found the time to do anything about it. One day last fall I finally had enough!
The door was a country green color, and the trim and side windows were a beige color. It was not very exciting! I'm on a major black kick right now, so of course I decided I must have a black door as well.
I used Sherwin Williams Black Magic paint. It looks black from far away, but close up it has a brown tint to it. I wanted something that wouldn't scratch off easily, so they told me I should buy an oil based paint. I was not familiar with oil based paint, so I wasn't aware of what I was getting myself into! It was like painting with glue or tar! It was super thick! It was also a pain to clean up! But it only took 2 coats. I don't think I'd buy an oil based paint again though. Unfortunately, I have 4 cans of it for my other doors in the house! Lesson learned.
We had a lot of fun carving pumpkins this year! The one on the hay eating the little pumpkin rocked!
This was the first year we painted pumpkins. I loved how they turned out! We will definitely be doing this again next year. It was fun for my girls as well. They did the painting!
The cat pumpkin was 2 pumpkins on top of each other, and we used the stem to make the tail. We cut the whiskers, ears, and eyes out of foam paper. The nose was a pink glittery pom pom. We did the same thing for the Hello Kitty. The bow, eyes, nose, ears, and whiskers were made from foam paper.
The black and white chevron pumpkin was painted by my 15 year old daughter Megan. We have a love for everything chevron! She painted the pumpkin white, then just free handed the black zigzags.
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