Happy Almost Halloween!
I am teaming up with some talented bloggers on a Fall/Halloween Tablescape Tour. I hope you are like I am and excited to see all the inspiration from my friend’s tables. There’s oodles of ideas to inspire you! I will list all of my friends down at the end of my blog.
Are you getting ready for some trick or treaters? I wished I was. We live in a rural area and we just don’t get any. So…I decided to bring the fun over to our home a different way. I invited 3 of my girlfriends over to carve pumpkins. I want to share with you how I set up my table for a Pumpkin Carving Party! Maybe this will be the first of many, who knows.
I hope you enjoy this table and maybe it will inspire you for next year’s pumpkin season. Save this blog in your Pinterest feed!
Let’s get started!
Like always, starting with a bare table. I am going to place down a white Dollar Tree plastic tablecloth so I can just throw it away when the party is over.
I want my table cloth to have a little cute scallop to the edge. Folding the tablecloth in a triangle, taking a little bowl making my design and cutting it out.
I saved some newspaper to use as a place mat.
Placing a folded newspaper to each place setting.
I purchased cutting boards from Dollar Tree. I added some ribbon to the handle.
Next I sat a pumpkin at each place setting.
I went on Google search and typed in pumpkin face print outs. I found a bunch of cute faces. Printed them out and sat at each place setting.
One day while in Dollar General, I was looking at their clearance shelves and stumbled on this little planter. Right away I thought how cute this would be for my pumpkin table.
Adding the pumpkin to the planter looks so cute.
I added one to each place setting.
Now no pumpkin carving table would be complete without the proper tools. I placed at each place setting:
- carving knife and spoon – to carve the pumpkin
- pen – to trace the face
- rubber glove – to protect the scooping hand
- sponge – to wipe off the pumpkin
- wash cloth – for our hands
- tea light – to place inside our pumpkins
I placed the glove, pen, sponge and the craving spoon and knife in the planter. I rolled the wash cloth up and placed it on the cutting board next to the tea light.
I found these two pails at Wal-mart. They are perfect to place in the center of the table to put all the seeds and insides of the pumpkin into. I took a piece of chalk and wrote the word SEEDS on both of the chalk painted label.
Making name tags:
- 4 mini pumpkins – I painted mine orange
- 4 paper clips
- ribbon
- hot glue guns and glue sticks
- piece of scrapbook paper
- printed our names off
Take your paper clip applying a dab of hot glue and placing it on the stem of the pumpkin. Adding a bow to the stem and place the name in the paper clip.
I added a little bowl with candy corn to each place setting.
Here is my Pumpkin Carving Tablescape.
Here are the other bloggers that are participating in on the Fall/Halloween Tablescape Tour. Just click on their blog name I will take you straight into their table!
- Laura – Harper Home Design
- NJ – The Colorful Wings Journal
- Maria – Willow House Lane
- Tar – Stilettos and Shiplap
- Jerri – Farmhouse Fun
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Stay strong and stay blessed!
XO Terrie
Decorating our home on a budget is my thrill. I think a home can look beautiful without breaking the bank. Your home should bring the best out of you and make you feel happy. You should smile every time you enter your home. 🙂