Shimmering Pumpkins
Apply as few or as many coats of silver floral spray to the pumpkins as you like.

For the Pumpkins
1. In a well-ventilated area, coat pumpkins with silver floral spray. Let dry.

2. With a craft brush, paint stems with green acrylic paint. Let dry.

3. Brush plastic toy insects with tacky glue, and coat with orange ultrafine opaque glitter. Let dry.

4. Attach bugs to pumpkins using a hot-glue gun or poster tack.

For the Leaves
1. From a 1/2-yard piece of green silk taffeta, cut out three 6-inch squares, three 7-inch squares, and three 10-inch squares.

2. Fold one large taffeta square in half. Lay the large leaf template along the fold, as shown below. Pin to fabric, and cut out. Repeat with remaining squares, using smaller templates for smaller squares.

3. Snip cloth-covered floral wire into forty-five 9-inch pieces, and separate into 9 sets of 5 wires. Wrap a set with floral tape, beginning 3 inches from the top of bundle if you're making a small leaf, 4 inches for a medium leaf, or 5 1/2 inches for a large leaf. Tear tape. Splay the 5 wires at top to create "veins."

4. Apply glue to one side of splayed wires, and press against leaf. Let dry. (If wires extend over the leaf edge, trim after the glue has dried.)

5. Shape leaf with your fingers. Repeat.

For the Tendrils
1. Brush an 18-inch length of floral wire with tacky glue, and sprinkle with chartreuse glitter. Let dry. Create as few or as many as you like.

2. Coil wire around a pencil, leaving about 4 inches of wire straight at one end.

3. Using floral tape, wrap "tendrils" onto leaf stems. You can create a vine by joining the stems with floral tape, or simply arrange the leaves beneath the bases of the pumpkins.

4. Affix crystals to leaves with tacky glue.