At Long Last....A Finished Project

I found the idea for this project over at The Other White House back in August.  It took me a little while to get all my supplies, but I think I started this in early October, with the hope of having them done by Halloween.

They have been sitting half done for over a month and I finally got around to finishing them off this week-end.

Here's roughly what I started with:

Needless to say, I forgot to take a before picture of the actual plastic gourds that I used on this project. 

My first step was to spray paint them all white.

My next step was to use Mod Podge to adhere strips of tissue paper.  I found some fancy tissue paper at Michael's all in gold and black tones that I really liked.  Here's what the larger pumpkin looked like half way through:

And here are my finished products:

Don't look too close or you will see all the wrinkles and mismatched patterns, but honest...from a distance they look pretty cool.

They are up on my mantle for Thanksgiving.  I've seen some amazing holiday inspired mantles out there and I know my falls short.

I think I need your help.  Here's my mantle:

Somewhat seasonal...but very sparse.  Any ideas or suggestions of what else to do.  What would you add.  I have a gold charger (for under a plate).  Would that help?  Open to any ideas.

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