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Giant Annual ANN Pumpkin Carving Contest

Here is a photo gallery of my pumpkin. Sorry if I seem to be bragging but I worked really hard and just cannot help it.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLanding.action?c=kox1fcd.9ofh9e5&x=0&y=-3tuwnf&localeid=en_US

Looks like you have some nice work. Not sure how you have them lit. But i find that taking the top off a cheap lamp and hanging it inside the pumpkin with a coat hanger works great. Candle is not ever going to match a 60 watt bulb.

Looks like you have some nice work. Not sure how you have them lit. But i find that taking the top off a cheap lamp and hanging it inside the pumpkin with a coat hanger works great. Candle is not ever going to match a 60 watt bulb.

maddoghoek100 wrote:

Looks like you have some nice work. Not sure how you have them lit. But i find that taking the top off a cheap lamp and hanging it inside the pumpkin with a coat hanger works great. Candle is not ever going to match a 60 watt bulb.

Yeah, as long as you use a flourescent bulb, instead of a standard 60 watt. I made the mistake once of using a real bulb in my pumpkin, I was wondering who was baking pumpkin pies. Remember those old Betty Crocker - Easy Bake Ovens ©™, they only used a 60 watt bulb, but you could bake a cupcake in them.

I used those little emergency lights you can buy at cheap discount hardware stores. You know the kind you stick to the wall with double stick tape and then tap the dome to turn it on? take a AA battery or two to operate and are about as bright as a flashlight, but they are cheap, and they work well for pumpkins. If you want really bright, but cool, light get yourself one of the new LED bulbs. Cost quite a bit per bulb, but they are definitely going to light up your pumpkin. You can also get the ones that change color. Now that is awesome!

If you want to make colors on the pumpkin outside of painting it, put colored cellophane on the inside. Then you can put it in different sections and get a really good effect. :3

fastandman wrote:

wow!!!, the competetion is hard!!!. well this was my first year, lets see my luck. great pumpkins everyone

Which pumpkin was yours? Mine was the last Kamina I believe with the name: Sa-Chan. And I was very suprised with the turnout! Then again, if you take away all the people who posted more than one, the chances of more people winning is great. I'm glad that they only allow one win per person.

My favorite though was the Serial Experiments Lain one.

have you had the feeling that you don't recognize whats in fron of you?
there are some pumpkins that I just don't know what they are, they don't have any form at all, I don't mean series, I mean shape..

is the first time someone has to explain what the "pumpkin" looks like