The Pumpkin Problem

I loooooovvveeee holidays. Love em. It's the perfect opportunity to decorate, craft, and bake. I mean, what could be better (a million dollars? Okay, yeah...)? But every year about this time, I get too anxious to carve pumpkins that they end up being mushy, stinky, trick-or-treater deterring... Things by the time Halloween actually comes around. What mom is going to let their kid come up to a door that has half-smiling unidentified orange blobs greeting them at the front door? 

OR maybe it's a good scare factor!

Either way, it's the stench that I can't stand. In the words of my southern momma, pee-yewwwww!

So in my avid Pinterest browsing (daily intervals during boring classes, work breaks, and every time I can't sleep), I came up with this idea: 

Paint them! 

Why on earth have I not thought of this before? 

Either way, these cuties can stay inside on a desk, table, counter, wherever! If my cats didn't love raffia so much (fall decor isn't complete without it), these puppies would make an adorable centerpiece. 

Whatever your style, pumpkins can be painted, glittered, spray painted, whatever you like! And they won't scare the neighbors!