Pumpkin Party

I am so happy to join Beth at her site Food As Art  for a Pumpkin Party.  Please click on the link and see all the other great pumpkins in blogland.

I went to a local pumpkin patch with my kindergartener.  I have never been to a pumpkin patch and always wanted to go.  I bet you didn't know that one of the top producing states of pumpkins is Illinois.  90-95% of all processed pumpkin is produced in Illinois. 

Here is a sampling of some of the pumpkins on our front porch this year.  After carving several pumpkins, I let my youngest get out a marker and he had fun decorating the last of the pumpkins.

The star of my Sleepy Hollow decorations was this guy.  I have carved this pumpkin for years.  I got the idea to do his eyes like this from the makeup Gene Simmons wears.  He was a bass player with the rock band KISS.

I have never experimented  with pumpkins in so many ways as I did this year.  I was trying to get more creative and do new things.  This is a sneak peak of this week's floating pumpkin.

I gilded my pumpkins to give them some glimmer and then put  some in a topiary. 

My standard pumpkin pie even got the Halloween treatment.

Some of my favorite new finds in blogland were a burlap pumpkin and a posh pumpkin.  I didn't have all the materials to make both, but combining what I had on hand, I created a posh burlap pumpkin. LOL

And, here it is almost Halloween and I have removed almost all of the Halloween decor.  We are getting into a thankful somber time for November.

In this centerpiece I have some baby boo and jack-be-little pumpkins that I have gilded and glittered for November to extend their life.

 Thanks for joining me as I re-caped my new adventures with pumpkins for 2010.  I never knew how much pumpkin love there was out there till I got to reading some of your blogs.  It was such a fun October. I have been filling my idea files up for next year!

Sherry