Show us your pumpkin

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Have you been growing a whopper of a pumpkin for Halloween? Or shop bought is fine

Do you and your DC carve a Jack O' Lantern every year? Or do you just want to show off your artistic brilliance?

Upload a picture of your pumpkin here for us all to howl ogle over and any top carving tips/pumpkin recipes you have, do share.

And a scary witch

We bought ours on Thursday and carved them Friday.

On Monday we came home from work to find they had melted. That was somewhat unpleasant to clean up.

Just found this one online.
It's had me laughing so thought I'd share [hgrin]

I carved one on sunday and another on monday. I sprayed the cut edges with wd40 to protect them a bit (you can use vaseline too) and they are still ok. I had to stick the one from sunday in a basin of cold water today as it was starting to curl a bit at the cut edges - I then dried it off a bit and resprayed with wd40. Hoping they will both last till tomorrow night.

Test ppicture of last nights effort

One of the most effective ones I've done, from last year

I wish I'd seen this thread earlier. There are lots of ideas for next year on here.

at the pumpkin giving birth! Made by a doctor and apparently displayed in a hospital.

Poor Mama Pumpkin. On her back, cannulated so probably pumped full of syntocinon, baby apparently back-to-back ...

Día de los Muertos inspired this year's pumpkin...

Ok, I'll try again

that is fab - had to click on the wee box to see it

oh you're ok, its showing now

Third time lucky?

My 10-year-old DD did this one

she did a great job

By ds1.

By ds2.

The face of evil.....

OhlimpPricks!! [hgrin] Now that is horror!

Yours are all so fabulous! How are you all so great at this? Are you all professional pumpkin carvers or something

Mine look awful in comparison!

And although you can't see it, I gave my pumpkin face red pupils and a silver filling in one of his teeth

They look a bit better in the dark!

Here are our pumpkins - Ben 10 and Hello Kitty!

Here's mine. First time ever carving a pumpkin! It's Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas...

oh no, image not working... it's just a jpeg.