The Cutting Edge: Virtuoso Pumpkin Artistry
October 30, 2009 by Robin Plaskoff Horton
photo courtesy Southern Living
Out of the patch and onto city steps, patios, and terraces. It’s almost scary to see the carving creativity unleashed on these pumpkins. What have you done with yours? Send us your photos!
You can chisel them, paint them, gild them…
photo courtesy Country Living
Cinderella Pumpkin, courtesy Country Living
Light them…
Photo courtesy Margo Yacheshyn
Photo courtesy myhomeideas.com
Tracery, not trickery…
Filigree, courtesy Martha Stewart Living
Love the visual play with the apartment’s ironwork:
Photo courtesy of Pretty in the City blog
And I will leave you with this out-of-city experience: paddling inside giant pumpkins!
Category: Experiencing
Tags: artisan pumpkins, artistic pumpkins, designer jack o' lanterns, designer pumpkins, Halloween, pumpkin carving, pumpkin decorating, pumpkins
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Pretty pumpkins! I’m always full of admiration for people who achieve more than the usuall toothy grin 🙂
Found you through Blotanical – hope we’ll see you there a lot.
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