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10 beautiful ways to decorate pumpkins and squash

From decorative place cards to striking accents and centrepieces, give your harvest table an uplift with these pretty DIYs.

By Chatelaine Updated October 6, 2015

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Harvest gold

7 / 10 Photo, Roberto Caruso and Angus Fergusson.

Double-dipped

Spray-paint small gourds and pumpkins white. Once dry, dip the bottoms in gold paint. Make sure your container is wide enough to fit the base of the pumpkin, and dip deeper on one side for an asymmetrical look. (We placed ours on empty egg cartons to let them dry, then flipped them upside down to let the bottoms fully cure.)