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Thank you all so much for the get well wishes.  They're working!  (Them and the antibiotics, I suppose.)  I'm doing much better (although I still sound awful and need to rest a lot), and I thought I'd post some instructions for those of you who requested them for the vine pumpkin.  It really was so easy, here it is summed up in one picture (that I drew in paint...ummm...it's not great).

It's an incomplete cross section, just enough to show what the vines are doing.  After rubber banding them around the top, you just bend the rest into a circle a few at a time until you've gone all the way around.  I'm hoping once the vines dry in that shape, I can get rid of a lot of the floral tape and the rubber band.
Hope that all made sense- I looked up all the side effects of my medication and hallucinations is on there, so...hmmm. 

DIY vine pumpkin

I saw these at Target and I really liked them.

{Sorry it's so super pixelated- I could only save the thumbnail image.}

Then I forgot about them.  Then I was looking at a grapevine wreath in my craft supplies stash and I remembered them again. 
My version started out like this:

Yep, a pile of yard waste in my living room.  Don't mind my little campout on the couch in the background- I have walking pneumonia.  Yeah, it totally sucks. 
Anyway, all of that turned into this:

Quite a bit more rustic than the Target version, but I really like it.  It's still being held together with a lot of floral tape and a rubber band (the white thing around the top), but I hope I'll be able to take most of that off once it dries.
I'm not fooling myself, thinking it looks like a pumpkin, right?

**UPDATE**  

I've added the how-to for this on a separate blog post

***ANOTHER UPDATE***

I took all the floral tape and rubber bands off of the pumpkin and now I love it more than ever:

Now it's just being held together with a length of picture hanging wire around the middle- I twisted the ends of the wire with pliers so I could get it really tightly.  Then I took it outside because the light in my house was being crappy.  Don't you love all those little curly vines sticking out of it everywhere?  I do.

Bring it on, fall

Still nothing new.  I did get out my fall decorations, though.  I haven't distributed around the house yet- that'll probably be this weekend.  Although it is the perfect weather for it now (those other Utah people out there know what I'm talking about- 75 during the day and down into the 50's at night- lovely, wonderful, perfect). 
Anyway, I found these when I was going through my fall stuff:

My no-sew fabric pumpkins.  I made them at a church activity the fall after Mike and I were married- they were one of the first decorations that I made for our little apartment and they're still one of my favorites.  They're also one of the easiest I've ever done.  Ready?
You take a circle of fabric- for the littler pumpkins I think it was about 18-20 inches in diameter (I'm betting a fat quarter would be just about right) and for the larger pumpkin, about 30-32 inches in diameter.
Then you put some poly fill in the middle of the circle and gather the fabric up around it.  Make sure it's not going to be to full- you need to be able to maneuver it around to create a flat-ish bottom and a more pumpkin-like shape.
Then you take a twig or cut stick and hold that in the middle of your gather and tie it closed with raffia and/or some scrap fabric.
And... done!  So easy, right?  And the possibilities are endless- I'm going to make some with orange and natural burlap, and I'll probably replace the raffia with twine on the ones I've already made.  You could make an orange felt one and then cut out jack o lantern shapes and faces on black felt, and then you have a toy/decoration, which are so so useful.

{The rest of my 3 pumpkin set}

I thought of a new craft for tomorrow.  That's right, I'm going to make something for the first time in like a week.  Weird.