It's Halloween. Who has the best pumpkin pattern?

[texastoast]

I'm going with a witch's hat this year.

Last year it was a broom.

Always, it will be something SKEEEEEEEEEERY!

[HereSince1628]

1. Pumpkins? We're going more traditional with smilies of turnips! n/t

[texastoast]

4. Turnips were carved before the tradition of pumpkins

as I recall.

So are you going to hollow them and carve or just carve them as heads?

[HereSince1628]

7. Slice off the top & hollow them

And they actually start as large rutabagas

[JoePhilly]

2. This year I bought a HUGE pumpkin ...

and I mean HUGE. It's almost as big as an exercise ball, about 2 ft across.

On it, I have carved an angry face with a large mouth, and sharp teeth.

On my lawn, I have created an area with dead leaves, and a large old beat-up sweat shirt. One of the arms is arranged to come up out of the ground. The hand will be holding a SKEWER, on which, I'll have 2 small pumpkins and a gord, each with a terrified face.

When fully set up, the huge pumpkin will be about to eat the smaller pumpkins and the gord. We'll have two basketball sized pumpkins looking on, one scared, one laughing.

Plus some other semi-floating spirits, like a plastic pumpkin wearing a black cloak, which sits on the top of a shovel so that when the wind blows, it moves and looks around.

Big fun.

[texastoast]

3. What a lawn!

I love decorating. I have my dining room table laid out with old pictures of ancestors, a skull, a cauldron, and a pumpkin candle.

Our motion sensitive candy bowl is screaming at me every time I walk by. LOVE Halloween!

As a kid ("too big" to go trick or treating), I ran a long line across the yard from a tree on the perimeter to the roof. On the line was a bucket draped in a sheet. When the trick-or-treaters came up, I was on the roof and tightened the line to raise the bucket and sheet from the lawn, and had so much fun watching the little kids' reaction.

I LOVE Halloween.

[proud patriot]

5. what a great idea

I have my yard decorated with scarecrows cauldrons and other shadowy things

[sakabatou]

6. One of my pumpkins used a stencil