Editors' Picks: Best Pumpkin Carvings Ever
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Our Top 28 Pumpkin Carving Picks
Our Top 28 Pumpkin Carving Picks
Turns out TOH fans can do wonders with some tools and a gourd. Every year, you blow us away with your creative designs. Sadly, we can only pick one winner. But here, we hope to catapult a few of you into Internet superstardom with this glittering showcase of our most favorite creations. Have a look at our Hall of Fame.
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Hungry Jack's Pumpkin Patch
Hungry Jack's Pumpkin Patch
Len C. of Highlands, New Jersey, painted a pumpkin guts-y scene with this giant pumpkin monster and sea of victims below. "This is a 1200-pound pumpkin. I used clay tools and a paring knife"
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Brigham City Boogey Man
Brigham City Boogey Man
Photo by Ed and Kristen B./ youroldhouse.thisoldhouse.com
Ed and Kristen B. in Brigham City, Utah, carve more than 100 pumpkins each year for display in their local Pumpkin Festival. What a haunting harvest! They wrote in their 2008 entry: "We use Dremels to carve artificial pumpkins, and pottery tools on real pumpkins. This is one of our most favorites!" Ours, too!
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Swashbucklin' Shading
Swashbucklin' Shading
Photo by Alex W./ youroldhouse.thisoldhouse.com
Alex W. of Elk Grove, California, carved a portrait of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow into an artificial pumpkin. The excellent shading and attention detail here—check out the beads in Jack's dreads!— make this true-to-life portrait one of our top picks.
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Extra-Special-Terrestrial
Extra-Special-Terrestrial
Photo by David M./ youroldhouse.thisoldhouse.com
David M. in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, put his Dremel to work for a few hours on this melancholy martian. Another example of great shading, this piece took hours to complete and certainly left behind a mound or two of Funkin dust.
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May the Force be With You
May the Force be With You
Photo by Noel D./ youroldhouse.thisoldhouse.com
Star Wars fans are sure to appreciate this Death Star carving by Noel D. in Centreville, Virginia. "I use various wood working tools, little pumpkin carving saws, and clay loop tools for my carvings," he says. Noel is a real—ahem— Stormtrooper for getting through this carve; though the design breaks down into simple geometric shapes, attention to placement and the 360-degree nature of the piece make it a real labor of love.
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Here's Where the Wild Things Are!
Here's Where the Wild Things Are!
Photo by Tom K./ youroldhouse.thisoldhouse.com
"In honor of the movie version of possibly the greatest children's book ever, I decided to make a carving of one of the wild things from Where the Wild Things Are," said Tom K. of St. Louis, Missouri. He used a sharp X-Acto knife to chip away at the pumpkin surface, then cut the spent bits into 3-D ears, leaving us to echo the wild things when they said, "Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!"
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Think It's Too Late to Get Carving?
Think It's Too Late to Get Carving?
Photo by Robby J./ youroldhouse.thisoldhouse.com
Think again! Robby J. in Ringgold, Georgia, makes another appearance with this carved Thanksgiving centerpiece. "It was carved with a Dremel tool with the pen attachment and several small bits."
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Tiffany Carved Pumpkin
Tiffany Carved Pumpkin
Karyn P. of Fort Worth, Texas, was inspired by fancy lighting fixtures and carved her own gourd-geous version of the prized lampshades. "I used the simple carving tools found in the prepackaged kits at the grocery store. This one is displayed as a shade for a lamp that sits on an end table."
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See All of the Entries and Enter Your Own
See All of the Entries and Enter Your Own
Now that you're inspired, make sure you head over to The TOH Pumpkin Carving Contest and enter for a chance to win the $1,000 Grand Prize this year!