bethie
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Hubby bought me this giant gourd at a yard sale and cleaned it for me. You need to take the top layer of skin off. It's about 15 x 19. Hubby was appalled that I was doing the biggest one first but I had a gourd shard I did a few samples on first. I knew the smaller ones would seem easier in comparison.I went to the yard and got some lovely oak leaves for a pattern and traced them on the gourd then I woodburned them.
Then I very gently put the black on the gourd with a q-tip. It is leather dye. Then the gourd is sprayed with a sealer. Voila!
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Oh that is really, really beautiful Bethie!!!!  I would be so proud to own something like that.  I would never have thought to decorate a gourd in that way. Well done!!!! 
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Oh, Bethie, it's beautiful. I want one now!
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You did a fantastic job, Bethie! It's fabulous.
But then, your work always knocks my socks off.
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reggaefan
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Very nice bethie you are the queen of creativity
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toni
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Bethie, that is beautiful.
I painted some birdhouse gourds a few years ago, some Randy drilled an opening for the birds and some I left undrilled just painted for decoration.
I have woodburning gourds on my ever growing list of projects I want to try, but they just never get done. I am thinking getting the really large ones and making bowls.
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stratsmom
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ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!
Your craftiness amazes me!
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glendann
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So beautiful .You always do great work.I do love that gourd.I tried to find seeds last year but never found them.I have some bird house gourds I may try to do something with this year.
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Netty
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That's really neat bethie. How long will a gourd last after being painted?
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Primsong
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I love the leaf pattern you did - beautiful. This is one I made a while back, it's about a foot tall - the flash made it a little lighter in coloring, it looks more dark purple and bronze in real life. I swabbed the inside with black dye, the outside is a rubbed leather dye also. Glued scraps of suede for the collar and added one earring from a pair I had lost the other to for the bangle. It decorates a small myrtlewood table in the hallway at my house.
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Fab!!! I can't even find gourds down here.
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I saw them Toni. I could never ever do what you do with a raw gourd. I want one like you make. How can I order one?
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cajunbelle
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Very lovely Bethie and Prim. I might have to try my hand at that.
Bethie, you have passed 500 posts, are you going to pick another name.
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