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I have several people who donated pumpkins. I purchased 50 of them from an Amish family for a $1.25 a piece. I don't have a big space to grow my own. I wish I did.

I take one entire day to gut all the pumpkins. I take another entire day to draw on all of the pictures. I then take another entire day, 8am to 2am, to carve them all. I carve them out. I do not scrape the skin. I take another day to put up the display and the haunted yard. My two daughters, 19 and ...

I carved 97 pumpkins and my oldest daughter carved 7 pumpkins. I also carved 9 wedding pumpkins. We were haunted scarecrows this year.
Look at my web site below to see four years of pumpkin carvings.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ntiegs

Hi to everyone,
Here is the web site to check out the pictures.

http://www.pumpkincarvingshalloween.com

It was a lot of work but worth it in the end.

pumpkinwoman

This year our theme was Psycho Circus. I carved 91 pumpkins. My daughter and I dressed as evil clowns. We built a circus tent in our front yard. We had colored lights and strobe lights. We had four other life size clowns with us. The trick or treaters were scared to death. It was great. We gave out ...

I bought stereo wire. I measure out the length I need between pumpkins and place light sockets where I need them. I buy candle shaped lights painted orange and red. They give a wonderful orange-yellow glow inside the pumpkins. I have 6-7 strands of wire to light 60+ pumpkins. If one burns out, I jus...

I am a teacher in a city of about 5000. I have had kids come to my house when they are in 3rd grade. When I am their teacher in 6-7-8th grade, they tell me they remember coming to my house when they were in 3rd grade. They tell me everything that happened at that Halloween. It is great that they rem...

I don't really have one favorite. There are too many of them that I like. There are some patterns I do every other year because I like them so much. Then I try and do as many as I can to match out Halloween theme. My daughter and I are the witches in the pictures. She has a very strong interest in a...

The pumpkins are taken by hunters to feed the deer. The seeds and guts are put in the compost in our backyard.
Did you see all 7 pages of pictures?
We are trying to do more with our yard each year.

Hi,
Yes, I carved all but a few my daughter did. It takes about 6 hours to carve 20 pumpkins.

I love doing it. My daughter wants us to do 100 pumpkins next year. We will see.

Hi everyone,

I have looked at many of your pictures. Here are mine.

pumpkinwoman

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