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.

I can see it EE.

I refreshed the page and it worked. some fabulously creative ones on here! I'm inspired! Pumpkins are new to me because we always had a turnip!

Here's mine

Heres my kids pumpkins grave stone by ds and smiley by dd

can anyone see mine?

yup.

They take a few minutes to show.

Yes I see them. Very good they are too

8yo DD designed this Wizard.

4yo DS designed this King.

Not a fab pic, but all I have with me til I get home for Trick or Treating. Ds's on the left, mine on the right.

Mine rally will NOT upload, grr!

Aha!

I like the upside down look

Well, I have NO idea how that happened.

LOVE these! The sugar skull/dia dos muertos one is fab.

Here's mine. I've always wanted to do one of these. Unfortunately, DS1 was very saddened because the big nasty one was eating his baby pumpkin. Maybe I should've waited a few more years?

Not my work, funny nonetheless!

Here's a shot of the poor baby pumpkin (who has his own battery tealight). I'm going to have to get DS1 another one, aren't I?

Excellent, OhLimpPricks!

I carved a Tinkerbell pumpkin for DD from a template I downloaded

Love the pinterest link. You can see them much better on there. Thanks MNHQ.

Pumpkins carved by my friend Carla - she has been doing it for years - and more amazingly - carved them for us while chatting - freehand - no marker on them - just did them - She is amazing...!

How do you do the ones where some of the skin is taken off, leaving just the fleshy part?

Does the skin come off easily?

You can buy special pumpkin carving tools but I used a combination of various sized knives, potato peeler and a screwdriver! Think the texture is like a butternut squash.

I also use a screwdriver!

That might be a job for me then rather that our ds's (4 and 7).

I bought the carving tools this year, but it didn't include anything that would have got the skin off very successfully.

I must plan next years more in advance!