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    Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
    Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
    Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
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    Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life

    By Roxanne Rhoads

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    Bring your Halloween party theme to life with these quick tips and tricks!

    Pumpkins and Party Themes features ten unique party themes with five do-it-yourself pumpkin designs for each theme. The pumpkin projects have a variety of decorating ideas that include carving, painting, and mixed media craftiness and easy-to-follow steps on each creation. Author Roxanne Rhoads also includes quick ideas on how to bring the theme to life through décor, costumes, and activities. These fun party themes range from gothic elegance to Edgar Allan Poe, under the sea, let's get literary, and more!

    With beautiful full-color images to illustrate the tools needed, steps to follow, and final products, this book makes for the perfect gift for Halloween enthusiasts and party hosts alike!
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateAug 25, 2020
    ISBN9781510751170
    Pumpkins and Party Themes: 50 DIY Designs to Bring Your Halloween Extravaganza to Life
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    Roxanne Rhoads

    Story strumpet, tome loving tart, eccentric night owl...these words describe book publicist and erotic romance author Roxanne Rhoads. When not fulfilling one the many roles being a wife and mother of three require, Roxanne's world revolves around words...reading them, writing them, editing them, and talking about them. In addition to writing her own stories she loves to read, promote and review what others write. Roxanne is the owner of Bewitching Book Tours and operates Fang-tastic Books, a book blog dedicated to paranormal and urban fantasy books. When not reading, writing, or promoting Roxanne loves to hang out with her family, craft, garden and search for unique vintage finds.

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      Pumpkins and Party Themes - Roxanne Rhoads

      INTRODUCTION

      Welcome to Pumpkins and Party Themes.

      In this book, you’ll find ten unique Halloween party themes that are showcased with tips, tricks, and ideas for coordinating decor, party activities, and costumes, plus five DIY pumpkin designs for each party theme. That’s fifty pumpkin DIYs using painting, carved designs, and mixed media craftiness.

      The projects range from super simple to midrange skill, so even if you don’t consider yourself to be crafty you should be able to complete most, if not all, of the projects in this book.

      I created a variety of pumpkin designs that include paint, glitter, glue, and other craftiness as well as several carved pumpkins. Not everyone likes to carve so I wanted to provide ideas and methods that everyone can enjoy. If you like to carve, some of the designs I used for painting pumpkins can easily be modified and used as carving stencils.

      Feel free to mix and match designs and themes. There are many projects that can be used for multiple themes. Gothic Elegance and Blood Bash have projects that could be used for both themes. Blood Bash’s Blood Splatter pumpkin would fit in great with the Zombie theme. The Zombie theme’s Bloody Handprint, Brains, and Hand Reaching Out can be incorporated into the Blood Bash party if you are going for a gory style or the Brains and Hand Reaching Out can easily be background pumpkins for the Dr. Frankenstein’s Laboratory theme. Edgar Allan Poe projects could be featured in Gothic Elegance and Let’s Get Literary. Mina and Dracula, and the Frankie and Bride of Frankenstein silhouettes are a perfect fit for Let’s Get Literary as well.

      Have fun customizing a party to make it your own.

      Roxanne Rhoads

      CHAPTER 1

      GET READY FOR HALLOWEEN

      PUMPKINS: A QUICK HISTORY

      Pumpkins and Halloween go hand in hand. No other symbol is as synonymous with Halloween as a grinning jack-o’-lantern.

      It is believed that pumpkins originated in Central America over 7,500 years ago. These original pumpkins did not resemble the bright orange variety we commonly see today. The original pumpkins were small, hard, and had a bitter taste. The pumpkins we use today are thought to have originated in North America. Seeds have been found in Mexico that are over five thousand years old.

      The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for large melon which is pepon. The French turned pepon into pompon. The English changed it to pumpion. Shakespeare referred to the pumpion in The Merry Wives of Windsor. In 1584 when the French explorer Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence region of North America, he reported finding gros melons which translated into English as pompions. American colonists later changed the name to pumpkin.

      Native Americans called pumpkins isqoutm squash. The squash was a staple of Native diets long before the pilgrims landed. Native people would roast long strips of pumpkin on the open fire to eat. They also dried long strips to be woven into mats.

      When white settlers arrived, they learned about pumpkins and incorporated them into a variety of recipes from desserts to stews. The first pumpkin pie was created when colonists cut off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds, filled the pumpkin with honey, milk, and spices, and baked it in the hot ashes of a fire.

      One of the first published American pumpkin recipes was recorded in the early 1670s in John Josselyn’s New-England’s Rarities Discovered.

      THE LEGEND OF JACK-O’-LANTERN

      The legend of the jack-o’-lantern is thought to have originated in Ireland with the tale of a miserly blacksmith named Stingy Jack. Many versions of the story exist. The following is a compilation of some of these stories.

      Stingy Jack was a con man. To simply call him a bad man would be an understatement. But Jack was clever and had a knack for getting out of trouble. Legend has it Jack sold his soul to the devil for his ability to avoid the responsibility and repercussions of his actions.

      One Halloween night the devil came calling. Time was up and the devil wanted what was due to him: Jack’s soul.

      The devil met up with Jack at a pub. Legend tells that ol’ Jack had drunk way too much and his soul was on the verge of slipping away, but before the devil could collect, Jack managed to convince the devil they should have a drink together.

      The devil had no money and Jack was as sly as he was stingy. He convinced the devil to turn into a sixpence so he could get that last drink. The devil’s pride was his downfall; he couldn’t resist showing off his shapeshifting skills so he promptly became a sixpence on the counter.

      Clever Jack didn’t buy a drink; he shoved that sixpence into his wallet which had a silver clasp in the shape of a cross.

      He trapped the devil and wouldn’t let him out until he promised not to collect Jack’s soul for another ten years (some legends say it was just a year Jack bargained for).

      Ten years later on Halloween night, the devil tried to collect Jack’s soul again. Wandering down a lonely country road the devil suddenly appeared to Jack. They walked together and talked for a while before happening upon a tree covered in shiny red apples.

      This time Jack convinced the devil to fetch him an apple. The devil stood on Jack’s shoulders to climb into the tree to get the shiniest red apple they could

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