Pumpkins gone wild.

Alternatively titled ... the day my husband used a whole bottle of Mod Podge.  Seriously.

I am a stickler for tradition.  I look forward to certain events all year.  Putting up the Christmas tree.  Shopping with my dad every Christmas Eve.  Carving Pumpkins.  

My husband hasn't always enjoyed the pumpkin carving process.  This was mostly a tradition that my son and I did together.  But Stu has carved with me the last couple of years after Michael passed away.  He's a trooper.  But really I know that he is counting the minutes until he can be done with the process.

Tonight was our night for pumpkin carving.  Pizza and Pumpkins.  (I'm trying to get in all of my favorite gluten filled foods this week until the big day next week!)  I decided to paint my pumpkin this year.  My big plans included chevron stripes and a orange glittered spider.  Stu decided to decoupage his pumpkins.  Though he doesn't know what the word decoupage means.   He wanted to cover his pumpkin in paper.  I taught him the proper Mod Podge application process.  He took me very seriously and just doused the pumpkin in glue.  Over, under, all over.  No part of the pumpkin was left untouched.  

This is where we should have just enjoyed the pizza and watched it's a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

My chevron stripe looked like a bad version of Charlie Brown's famous zigzag.  Stu's pumpkin has absorbed a full bottle of Mod Podge.  A full bottle.  It's not dry.  We decorated our pumpkins three hours ago and it is still not dry.  It's a gooey mess.  

I tried to fix my zig zag.  I made it worse.  I applied the vinyl stencil for my spider.  It pulled off my carefully constructed crappy chevron.  I said less than nice words as I reapplied paint with reckless abandon.

Our pumpkins look like a bad art class experiment.   I'm sure we will tweak again tomorrow.  But until then ... see for yourselves.  I warn you.  This picture is NOT pretty.  We need a pumpkin intervention.  Stat.

Entitled "Patchwork".

Entitled "Cheer up Charlie".

-Jenn