Halloween Pumpkins.

Who is buying pumpkins for Halloween?

We always buy 2 and make them into bunny pumpkins and the kids that come trick-a-treating love them.

Bunny Pumpkin 2008


Bunny Pumpkins 2010






And sometimes I decorate the front of our home for a laugh, this was at our old house before we moved here.

I'm loving those pumpkins

love those

They are flippin' fabulous! Love them!

I think I may have to make one now

LOVE THIS!!! I was only saying to my OH this afternoon that I might do bunny pumkins this year...I did a Michael Jackson Thriller, and a jack skellington pumkin last year, it was hard work, and I had to work on em in 2 or 3 seperate sittings, but I was quite chuffed with the result....

I love doing pumpkins! Looking forward to it Bunnies can eat pumpkins cant they??
A couple years ago I cut a pumpkin and put it in the rabbits run, they loved knawing on it. I did one for the piggies too and they crawled inside it! so fun

they're so cool we never carved pumpkins before.. maybe we'll try this year

Ooooooh can they eat pumpkins? Wonderful!!

wow super pumpkins you are very talented

I LOVE halloween its my fave holiday but we never have any money we can decorate the house with at this time of year, wish England was more like America with how over the top it is xx

Yodaphine wrote:LOVE THIS!!! I was only saying to my OH this afternoon that I might do bunny pumkins this year...I did a Michael Jackson Thriller, and a jack skellington pumkin last year, it was hard work, and I had to work on em in 2 or 3 seperate sittings, but I was quite chuffed with the result....

Wow they are fantastic! they put our bunny ones to shame that must have been so hard to do they are brilliant

I said to my OH that I'm definitely doing bunny pumpkins this year hehe. They're fab Maysie!

It was the first time we had carved pumkins believe it or not....I kinda cheated a bit and used a stencil, could no way have done it free hand. The Jack skellington was easy peasy...but I had to admit, doing the MJ one very nearly cost me my sanity and self control...the fiddly bits were infuriating!

Oooh =^o^=

If there is one thing I do like it's carving pumpkins at halloween.

Here are a few axamples of my own work.

The Slush puppie painter 2009



Vauxhall motors pumpkin for my cousin 2007



Cabbit Pumpkin 2005



Carved shark fin melon 2005

These glow white and have dark skin , I always carve them in this style.



This years main pumpkin ( 2011 ) The General Malice ( vinyl rec label ) cats. This one is gonna be big and will wrap around the pumpkin much like the Vauxhall pumpkin did slightly in 2007

They are amazing! I really like the melon one. Such a simple idea to use a white fleshed fruit for variety.

Yodaphine, the MJ one is amazing. You must be soooooo patient.

Maysie, bunny pumpkins are just brilliant. The ears are great. bet the kids love coming to your door. xx

It's not actualy a melon , it's more of a gourd. Actualy I dont know what it is lol . The asain's usualy cut the top off boil them up to make a soup base. But you can eat the flesh as it is , if you can get around all the pith and seeds.

I get the seeds each spring from the local Chinese takeaway shop. The were origionaly known to me as Kevin's monsters , until I saw a BBC Drama called grow your own , and subsequently found out they were called Shark fin melon.

When halloween comes up each year , I always get excited carving these unusual fruits.

Four whimsical gourds 2008 , these little guy's were a bit late, so these were in my flat.



My first puking pumpkin 2007



Several carved pumpkins and gourd uplighters. 2003 35mm film camera print



Rather more demonic pumpkin 2010 , seemingly burning hotter than the fires of hell .



Two party globes from 2007



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they are soo cool

those bunny pumkins are FAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gonna have to do one this year

Standard design pumpkin ( nanci and gary's pumpkin )

Jojo in the stars pumpkin ( Replacement pumpkin )

Staplehurst

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IKUE pumpkin 2011

This was done quickly to use a pumpkin that had started to rot internaly , that I was supposed to be taking down to family the next day to carve. I had to turn it lid up and scoop out some yukk before washing it out and carving.

R.I.P Mark Grover

hehe these are fantastic

From Staplehurst to Addiscombe ( Olds's House )

The larger Kevin's monster's ( skark Fin melon ) this year are so ripe that their skins have gone hard. Luckily I had this little late chappie on the allotment. he was nice and soft , in fact he's positively glowing.

Unlike the other chap that appears to have sustained a rather nasty injury to the side of the head , most likely caused by that axe nearby.

My first traditional style axe head pumpkin.

I asked Mike all last week not to forget the pumpkins and ...........he forgot!
I asked him Saturday and Sunday ...........he forgot! said he would go today
He's just been and come back and guess what...........NO PUMPKINS LEFT!

Thanks Mike and Happy Halloween

Addiscombe 2011 . The house at nash's garden. ( the dreaming suburb )

General Malice cats + standard pumpkin , similar design to the Staplehurst pumpkin that nanci and Gary provided.



General Malice cats



You Tube : General Malice : Hands Up

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