Pumpkin Crafting

Your ultimate guide to carving, painting and decorating pumpkins for your home, complete with tips and recipes for getting the most out of your pumpkin all season long.

When the leaves start to turn, it's time to rediscover our love for autumnal delights, and chief among them is decorating our homes with pumpkins galore. Pumpkin Crafting is your complete guide to turning these beloved seasonal gourds into decorative centrepieces, candle holders and show-stopping jack-o-lanterns.

From playful and whimsical pumpkins that will liven up Halloween or Day of the Dead parties to sophisticated and elegant designs that will bring autumnal charm to your home all season long and be showstoppers at your Thanksgiving dinner, you'll find projects to suit every style and taste.

Divided and organised into helpful sections, you'll find:

A guide to the Tools, Tips and Techniques that will help you achieve the best results

Pumpkin Carving projects, for transforming your pumpkins and seasonal gourds into show-stopping jack-o-lanterns

Pumpkin Painting projects, for transforming your pumpkin with a lick of paint, no sharp objects required

Pumpkin Dressing projects, for turning your pumpkin an original creation with glue, tape and other odds and ends

And Recipes, for using every part of the pumpkin to create delicious meals and tasty snacks

Each project has clear and helpful directions to help you easily turn your pumpkins into impressive creations and every section comes with helpful tips and templates so that you can focus on having fun creating amazing pumpkins.

About the Author

Jen Rich is a photographer and stylist with over 10 years of experience working for a range of editorial and advertising clients. She has a passion for all things crafty and has always enjoyed making things with her hands, whether that be sewing her own clothes or writing 150 wedding invitations in calligraphy. She strongly believes that crafting and sewing can be extremely helpful in maintaining our mental and emotional wellbeing.

Jen has published two previous titles with Octopus Publishing Group, Clever Cookie Cutter and Pumpkin Crafting . For both titles she developed the designs from initial concepts, crafted the projects, then styled and photographed the book.