- This topic has 111 replies, 1 voice, and was last updated 17 years, 5 months ago by .
-
Posts
-
Wow! How did I miss your pumpkins, Mimi? They sure are wonderful!!
Did you ever get your glass pumpkins at the studio? I might have missed those as well.
darjeb wrote:Those are some wild pumpkins Mimitrek you did a great job on them
lamortefille wrote:Wow! How did I miss your pumpkins, Mimi? They sure are wonderful!!
Thanks!
lamortefille wrote:Did you ever get your glass pumpkins at the studio? I might have missed those as well.
I did visit the studio last weekend as planned, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to find the colors/sizes/shapes that I was looking for. It looks like they had already sold off all of the ones that I liked at the pumpkin festival!
That’s OK though…I’m going to look around at some of the local stores that carry those pumpkins, and it’ll be a good opportunity to see what other pumpkins/squash that they make — I think only a small portion of of their stuff was displayed at the pumpkin festival. And there’s always the pumpkin festival next year. 
By the way, the visit to the studio was fun nevertheless. They had a lot of neat stuff on display which wasn’t at the pumpkin festival (vases, etc.) and their garden, which had a lot of pumpkins/squash stashed among the plants, was really pretty. The glass blowing was fun to watch also. If you’re interested, here’s a TV report that ABC did last Thursday. The video shows a lot of the stuff that I saw during my visit — the glass blowing and the garden — and they interview Molly Stone as well.
My in-laws have those ridiculous high output accent lights all over their house and yard, so my husband and I got some real nice theatrical lighting gels to put on them. Everything is now a nice eerie purple! We have a professional fog machine that we’re going to set up and cover the house and yard in fog on Halloween night also. With the purple spotlights, it’ll ‘color’ the fog a deep eerie purple. It’ll be fun. I’ll put on my dragon costume to hand out candy. I’ll get photos if I can!
Volunteer mod- I'm here to help! Email me for the best response: nambroth at gmail.com
My art: featherdust.comI’m making 2 doggie costumes this year!
I have to wait a year or 2 till my niece/nephew is old enought to dress up. Man my sister is going to HATE me! mwhahahaha 
Here are a few pumpkins I did last year…or the year before, can’t remember…
yes, the one in the left corner is eating a smaller pumkin
here’s a Maleficent pumpkin I did for my grandma’s house
I think I might get the fake carvable pumpkins from Michaels this year and try them out…anyone ever use them? Are they any good? I wonder if you can put candles in them….
"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
-J R R TolkienMimi…it’s a shame you didn’t get the pumpkins you wanted, but as you said there’s always next year.
Nam…all that purple fog sounds cool.
Arlla…Great pumpkins! I saw the fake pumpkins and wondered about them myself. You’ll have to let us know if you carve one.
Arlla wrote:Here are a few pumpkins I did last year…or the year before, can’t remember…
yes, the one in the left corner is eating a smaller pumkin
here’s a Maleficent pumpkin I did for my grandma’s house
I think I might get the fake carvable pumpkins from Michaels this year and try them out…anyone ever use them? Are they any good? I wonder if you can put candles in them….
Hey Arlla,
I’ve done a few fake pumpkins this year. They both harder and easier to carve, if that makes any sense
They have a thinner “skin” than real pumpkins, but it’s a high density foam, so sometimes a bit harder to cut.
And NO candles in them, they will melt/catch fire. I use those little LED tealights in them and it works just fine!Just curious, what do people use to carve their pumpkins? I’ve used a steak knife and and exacto knife. I’ve tried those Pumpkin carving kits but find the blades are to soft and flexible and I always destroy them.
Wow Arlla. Those pumpikins are fantastic! I allways try to do things like that and it comes out horrible.
I would help but I am just to tired to get out of bed today~
Engaged to a WeaselWONDERFUL PUMPKINS AND DECORATIONS EVERYONE
Well since very few here seemed to know who Barbara Stanwyck was then I’m not sure if you will know this years entry by me. I will be Mae West this year. I have never attempted her yet so it will be interesting to see how she comes out. I do not want to shave my chest unless I HAVE to, it’s such a pain when it grows back and starts itching. I found a male body suit on line today so I hope it gets here in time. It’s coming from Conn to CA priority mail so I’m wishing for the bestfoxfeather wrote:Hey Arlla,
I’ve done a few fake pumpkins this year. They both harder and easier to carve, if that makes any sense They have a thinner “skin” than real pumpkins, but it’s a high density foam, so sometimes a bit harder to cut.
And NO candles in them, they will melt/catch fire. I use those little LED tealights in them and it works just fine!
And the fake pumpkins are light-weight enough that you can suspend them from fine wire so that they “float”. That’s going to be fun!
There are some really talented pumpkin carvers in this group! I never got past the triangle-eyes-nose-and-big-toothy-mouth level of carving (think Charlie Brown Halloween Special).
Seeing what people here have created with their pumpkins is quite impressive!
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.
