Save the pumpkin stems!

Hello! I just wanted to share a fun tip for your fake pumpkins. Some pumpkins come with obvious looking plastic stems:

 And others come with awesome fake stems:

So here is a tip: when you choose out real pumpkins, get the ones with really good stems. Then, you can pull the stems off of the pumpkins at the end of the season and let them dry out until next fall. (I just threw mine in the fall bin with the rest of the decor) Then you can twist the plastic looking stems off of your fake pumpkins and hot glue the dried out real stem to the top!  Here are some that I have done it with:

It makes them look 1000 times better in my opinion. Just a little tip to remember this fall!