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This is such an easy 5-minute fall project: make instant DIY metallic pumpkins with sticky aluminum foil tape.

You don’t have to go to the store and buy new fall decor – just update the pumpkins you already have.

Easy DIY Metallic Pumpkins

Yes, it’s that time of year: to think about fall decor.

I love to recycle and reuse items, and I love super easy, fast DIY projects, so this is my kind of project.

It’s SOO easy, and so much fun to update your fall decor! The kids can help you with it — that easy.

Do you

• have fake pumpkins in a color you don’t like any longer
• have plastic pumpkins that look cheap that could use an upgrade
• or do you want to try something new?

Then listen up, my friend.

When we were organizing our shed in the spring and going through the 20 tool bags my Don owns stuffed full of of drills, nails, and odds and ends from his carpentry and construction jobs, he was throwing a half-used roll of metallic tape into the garbage pile.

Uh, not so fast!

I was attracted to it like those birds that steal shiny objects and picked it up to check it out. I had never seen this kind of tape before, but I immediately fell in love.

If there is such a thing — to fall in love with tape.

It’s actually aluminum tape for HVAC jobs.

Where was this all my life?

I instantly thought of so many ways I could use it for DIY projects!

I mean, it’s metallic, and it has glue on the back of it. There isn’t a surface that’s safe from me now. [Read more…]