Thank you Ryan and Mayor. The photo staging and the room are all really decorated for the pumpkins. If I didn't have ZP patterns to carve I don't think I go to so much bother. They need a proper home so for one or two weeks that's how it looks. I picked that room specifically because of the Victorian sideboard. It makes me think of the type of furniture the Addams family or the Munsters might have. I love it even though such furniture isn't really in fashion. It's a family heirloom which has come to me so i'll take good care of it.
The tooth fairy was a last minute idea, I put Hocus Pocus on and made a load of teeth. Just before taking the photo I remembered the old pliers so I couldn't resist getting them out.
The pumpkin I used for the Witch worked out great, it was my favourite looking pumpkin and by far my favourite pattern too. Raven had already done the apple carving in her photo so a couple of piles of shiny red apples was the next best thing I could think of.
I got four Pumpkins from my Uncle. One was a little baby so I carved Baby's first onto it for a friend who had their first baby in September. No picture of that one though, I clean forgot. The grinning jacks and the Patchmaster were his other two and ive kept one back for Clark Griswold if it keeps. The rest I got from a farm not to farm from me, same one Matspud gets hers from. They were a lovely crop this year, no rot at all, nice big and lovely long bodies, just how I like 'em.
Annabelle, Tooth Fairy, the skeleton duo and the Grinning Jack trio are all going to a fireworks party tonight. They've held up really well, just a little sloppy inside but pattern wise OK. I'm not going, I fancy a cosy night in with the extended edition of the Desolation of Smaug instead.