Using the spiks from 2020 Pumpkin (covid edition), I created my own COVID pumpkin. My wife found me a nice white base pumpkin, fudged some GF googly eyes, and made spikes and painted them red.
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From the many comment I have heard about these pumpkins locally, it appears there is a market for these spikes. (I have resisted showing an interest)
I would advise acrylic if making sales. Not convinced the MDF is up to anything semi permanent.
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i just used scrap baltic birch. they don’t have to last that long and they’ll get tossed with the pumpkin when it rots.
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Pierced pumpkins aren’t really up to anything semi-permanent. Not likely to get more than a week or two before it’s turning to squish on the front porch. In my neighborhood, the racoons drag pumpkins away soon after cutting & decorating.
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Mine also, but we did not ‘buy’ them. If purchased, they would probably get hosed off and stored for the next victim.
Product damage and replacement is one the reasons I resisted making packs for sales.
Really did not want to go into the pumpkin spike business rabbit hole.
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Came out great!
Does make me wonder though…are COVID spikes really red in real life?
I don’t know. The are in illustrations.
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Yes! I wanted to do that but team out of motivation.
hey, that’s not fair using a grayscale picture!
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At the scale of features on a virus, there is no color.
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I imagine he had red paint, same as I had Pumpkin Orange (that just screamed to be used).
It is a Maker thing. Need paint. Look on shelf. Return with something. Hope nobody notices.
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