How to clean dried gourds

You've purchased some gourds and are ready to create! First, you'll need to clean the mold and grime off the outside. Read how to here.

Learn how to properly dry gourds and create beautiful birdhouses with our comprehensive guide. Discover tips and tricks for selecting, cleaning and preserving gourds for your next project. Start crafting your perfect birdhouse today!

The cutest little dried spinner gourds for painting, crafts or ornament making. They have been lightly cleaned, and may need a few spot cleans depending on how you want to use them! Great for bowl filler or fall crafts. This listing is for a set of 8. They will be the same or similar to the ones shown, with variations in if they have a stem and small variations in size and coloring. Would you like tiny holes drilled at the top for inserting a hanging wire? Choose preference with the…

How to preserve pumpkins and gourds, using just three ingredients. This method keeps pumpkins and gourds from rotting, and is so easy!

How to clean the residue, pencil lines, graphite lines, sticky tape and glue off your gourd after wood burning your design.

In this post we are going to talk about cleaning the outside, and then cut and clean the inside of the gourd.

This is a guide about preserving ornamental gourds. Proper preservation of ornamental gourds can keep them looking good for a long time.

Did you know you could dry out gourds and keep them for many years? Here's how to dry out a gourd and a fun and easy gourd decoration idea.

Halloween Gourd Craft Project – Making a Gourd Jack o’Lantern Below, you will find instructions on how to design and make a jack-o-lantern from a hard shell gourd. Gourds make a better jack o’lantern because they can last forever. You may choose to use a pattern or draw freehand directly onto the gourd. You will need: a clean dried gourd ... Read More

I'm just about done with the scarf project, and so I'm moving on to my next requested work: a decorated gourd. My first step was to head out to the stash in my shed, and pick out a dried gourd. I brought it inside a couple of days ago, to give it time to adjust from the baking desert heat out in the shed to the cool and somewhat more humid air in the house. A raw gourd has a waxy coating on the outside of it, which needs to be removed so the dye can get to the rind of the gourd. I scrub the…