I know everybody and their neighbor likes to Pin cute, crafty, and inventive things on Pinterest. (myself included) I am all for this harkening back to general homemade cuteness.
What I don't get is why we, as a people group, have felt the need to turn everything into a DIY craft project?
Do we really need to make our own brooms?
Do we realize suckers are still for sale? We don't have to melt jolly ranchers on a cookie sheet.
Did you know that you can still buy skirts? We don't have to make them out of shorts, old t-shirts, or even duct tape. I'm just sayin' that given the choice between spending $15 and countless hours on a DIY skirt made out of rubberbands, and a $15 skirt from Target... I am going with Target. Every.Single.Time.
I got an e-mail with 15, yes FIFTEEN ways one can create, embellish and DIY the crap out of pumpkins.
People... they.are.pumpkins.
They are a decoration all on their own because...
They are round, and orange, and come in various sizes and shapes.
No two are exactly alike. They are like the snowflake of fall.
So stop...
stop covering them in glitter
stop sticking gold thumbtacks in them
stop decoupaging them
stop gluing yarn to them in yellow and blue
stop making them out of cardboard, old books, and yes... DRYER VENT HOSES
Just enjoy them for what they are.
pumpkins.
They are one thing you can and should be able to just walk into the grocery store, plunk down your $5 for, stick on your porch and say... "DONE".
Embrace this freedom friends.
Take back the organic beauty of the unadorned pumpkin.
Stop exploiting them for your DIY addictions. ( exploiting... a tad over dramatic, but you get the point)
PUMPKIN FREEDOM FOR ALL!
I want to give everyone permission to be free and simply enjoy fall
ONE PLAIN PUMPKIN AT A TIME.
So put down the bedazzlers, sit back, watch some leaves turn colors, and leave the poor pumpkins alone.
Well, until October 31st when we gut the junk out of them and stick candles in their innards.
Survival of the fittest you know ;)
(I should note that having small children paint pumpkins rather than giving them a knife to carve, this I am all for. Intact appendages are a good thing.)
Feel free to leave photo links in the comments of your pumpkins. I will add them to my new pinterest board entitled "Pumpkin Freedom"
Put down the Bedazzler!
ReplyDeleteI have a friend that wants to DIY everything. Every. Thing. I think some people are just born with innate desire to torture themselves. NOT ME. I'll take the plain pumpkin on the porch thankyouverymuch. loved this! ;P
This is why we will b friends forever.
ReplyDeleteThis is why we will b friends forever.
ReplyDeleteI have to raise my hand on this one...as I do enjoy carving it's guts out and seeing if by the end it even resembles the cut out...I take joy in that part even when it turns out bad!
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