hahaa i saw one of them the other day ..can't remember where tho...hmmmmm

this is our little flower (she'll never forgive us for that, I suspect), our scarey leopard, and a couple of our jack-o'lanterns. We had slighly fewer visitors than last year, but following the same pattern: little kids with parents in tow from around 6pm, progressing through to small groups of mid-teens and all wrapping up by about 8.45. We've got loads of candy left over which I've donated to the office kitchen today in a vain attempt to stop eating it all myself!

Well - yours look sweet - mine? Not so much!

(sorry about the quality of the pics - darkness plus pathetic flash equals awful pics! )

aww she is so adorable..yeah she wont forgive you whilst she is in the teen years probably...LOL..but then when she gets older she will love it again..trust me!!!

and your son looks cute and scary!!! Love those jack-o-lanterns...

aww they look great!!! my son would love that dead rock star idea..i will tell him and will bet he will want to be that next year!!!!

they look realy happy!!! and that is what it is all about huh!!...

Between my place & your place

My OH loves Haloween and decorates the house every year. Kids talk to each other on the streets during the evening and word gets about so they all come from far and wide to see what my OH has done each year. He's the one in the hairy mask at the back in the 3rd photo. What the photo doesn't show are the evil sounds coming out of our darkened house, played through on the stereo. My OH comes out from the dark saying, 'Wadddddda you waaaaaant,' in an evil and scarey voice. The spider to the right of the door is sound activated and runs down the wall with flashing eyes, the white ghosts, woohoohoo eerily, the skeleten to the left of the door, vibrates and flashes red eyes, there's a mouse on the ground that invariably some kid treads on so it squeaks, and some kids, both young and old, are really freaked out by it all, until my OH takes off his mask and produces a basket of sweets. A neighbour and I stood on the other side of the road for ages watching the kids reactions, it really was so funny to watch.
We didn't see much of our own kids cos they went off to the surrounding streets in a group, so no pics of them, other than the last one, where both my son and OH are teaming up for the big pumpkin face. (It's on the table in the 1st photo). It's huge isn't it? Given to us by one of the old folk around the corner who have an allotment.

ahhh how cool!!...you will be very popular over here ..that is for sure!!!..it looks like it would have been a lot of FUN!.....

Do you want to frighten the smaller ones away? I'd be scared to knock if i saw that hanging there

Really fab pictures everyone, thanks for sharing.

Have completely missed halloween and bonfire night this year working away

Stories & pictures, cool kids and arty pumpkins all fab fab fab

I did make some pumkin soup though!

Thanks!!!!

Have already posted these pics on another thread, but happy to do so again.

1st. My first ever pumpkin carving effort, am pleased with it.

2nd. We all went with a theme for the kids, the other pumpkins were a bit more complex than mine.

Behave yourself thats you..........go on admit

Hi I know I'm a bit late checking out this thread but I LOVE your pumpkins - did you draw the characters on yourselve and then cut them out or use templates? If you used templates where do you get them from as we havn't been in Canada long and were living in an apt block this year so didn't do pumpkins but can't wait to carve them next year for our new home.

Thanks in advance
MissMellyShoes

There are loads available as free downloads (google "pumpkin template" - the ones from eHow looked pretty good) - we downloaded a few, but then bought a "pumpkin carving kit" for the princely sum of $4 from the Superstore, that had a booklet of templates and a couple of carving tools that made the job sooooo much easier than trying to use a kitchen knife (and a "goop scoop" scraper thingy that made scraping out the insides a lot easier too). Our "BOO" ghost and the witch's face in the photos in post #17 were from these templates (I wish I could claim otherwise, but I'm not that good at drawing on flat paper, never mind on a pumpkin!)

Awwww, thank you so much. It was my first ever try, and i was so pleased.

We printed teh templates off from a Disney site, and i then picked the simplest one for myself. Friends and i got together with a bottle of wine one night and did them for the kids, we had fun.

Before that night i didnt even know the pumpkin carving tools and templates existed - well worth it.