To make this fall porch decoration, we stacked three pumpkins in a planter and then adorned the pumpkins in vines, greenery, baby's breath, and some feathers.
In order to stack the pumpkins, break the stem off the bottom two pumpkins. Or cut holes in the bottom of the top two gourds. Paint the pumpkins if you wish.
On a painter's tarp, lay out all the gourds and greenery. Start with the bottom of the gourd, unroll the vine and cut a piece to go around the bottom of the gourd, letting some stick out of the bottom a bit. Use u-pins to hold it in place.
Cut a piece of the boxwood greenery and place it under the vine twigs, use pins to hold it in place.
Place three of the five bundles of feathers around the vine. You may want to use the scissors and cut off most of the stem and then tuck the rest between the gourd and the vine. Use a hot glue gun (medium heat) to hold it in place.
Cut pieces of the flowers and their greenery, then tuck them into the vine around the base and glue them in place.
Use dried flowers to fill in the rest, make sure some pieces hang over the edge of the urn.
Repeat the steps on the top two pumpkins, but don't use as much decoration as you did on the base pumpkin.
We used our tarp not only as a work surface, but placed it on the bottom of the urn to bring the height of the pumpkins closer to the top of the urn. If a tarp doesn't work, try rocks, packing peanuts, or old towels. Place the pumpkins in the urn on the tarp, allowing it to sink slightly into the center of the tarp. Make sure none of the tarps or inside edges of the urn are showing.
When everything is in place, fill in the blanks with more flowers, feathers, or even birds.
