No, I am not making wine or grape jelly!!  I am going to decorate our dining room table for Fall.  Decorating with blue is hard to say the least, because there’s not many realistic items to use.  Example, I find flowers and fruit are not true blue.

So when I started planning for the dining room table I thought about using grapes for the blue accent, along with my blue painted pumpkins. 🙂  I knew I had several clusters of faux grapes up in the attic from my Tuscany décor years.  Brought them down and as I thought they are all the wrong color.  You know I love a good design challenge!  I pulled out purple and black craft paint and went to work.

Not sure if I will use the green cluster, but will paint the cluster just in case.

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HOW TO PAINT FAUX GRAPES

I didn’t have a dark purple in my paint supply, I mixed some black and added it to purple to make a dark grape color.

Using a brush to paint the grapes on the cluster was the easiest way to paint them.  I wasn’t sure if spray painting the cluster would get into all the spaces, plus wasn’t sure I could find the color purple I wanted.

I kept turning and pushing my brush in between the grapes to get everything covered.

Making sure I had plenty of paint on the cluster, letting them dry about 1 hour or so.

Taking a lightly damp cloth, place the dried painted cluster inside the cloth and rub around the cluster removing all the excess paint.

They turned out better than I expected.

Now that it worked I painted all the clusters, even the green one.

I will wait to see if I can incorporate the green cluster in my design.

Next week I will share how I incorporated the grapes.  This week is the planning and preparing part of decorating.

Happy this project turned out, I can check off purchasing grapes from the list. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

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