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Arachnoporch (our fall porch 2011)

GIVEAWAY· OUR 2nd HOUSE

I struggle with creating a halloween display without going too over the top with neon green/deep purple/bloody skeletons/a stunt double for Edward Cullen.  That’s why I was almost bruised my vocal cords after screaming in excitement when Lowe’s Creative Ideas magazine offered up a giveaway for you guys…and a gift card for me to use to greet my trick-or-treaters in style.

Did you know that in the old house we never had trick-or-treaters?  Not once.  Maybe it was because we weren’t living in a neighborhood…or maybe it was because our direct neighbors were all older…or it could be that our road was a little too busy and narrow for kids to cross…but whatever the reason, we were all alone on Halloween…hugging our giant bowl of Snickers…weeping.  Not really.  But we did think about how one day we would live in a neighborhood that had a few kids.

And hopefully in the next few days, that dream will come true.

But back to the front porch…usually it looks like this:

And now after we added our spooky decor, it looks like this:

Our entire porch got a $50 spooky makeover that will greet those little goblins & princesses with style.

The porch columns are really the ‘entrance’ into the porch, so it was an obvious choice to start there.  We added some branches (trimmings off crepe myrtles that were just thrown into the woods) anchored by a few pots with semi-dead mum bushes.  We also buried a little spotlight in the bush for spooky uplighting.  Outdoor spotlights are cheap right now (under $5 plus the bulb) and I recommend investing in a few.  They are great for the holidays.

Beyond the branchy columns, is our spider themed entrance.  Will loves spiders…I like to credit the homemade spider doll I made last year…and we liked that it was not too scary for any toddlers that would be trick-or-treating. Gotta love a G-rated halloween entrance, right?

We were able to reuse the grapevine wreaths that adorned our windows at the old house as a subtle branchy reference on our double front door.

On either side of the doors lives our black footed urns which were versatile enough to work for Halloween…so they stayed.  First we put in a couple more uplights…then stacked a couple grapevine wreaths and then stuck in a bunch of branchy clippings.

At the floor, we put all our pumpkins and funkins and our homemade spider pumpkin.

 

This creepy crawly is so fun.  First of all – it took only ten minutes.  We just assembled the textured legs (they are actually outdoorsprinkler parts) and used a drill to cut holes for the legs.  Then we sunk them into the medium sized carving pumpkin and added a couple eyes (halves of old plastic easter eggs with eyes drawn on).

Webster (our nickname for our creepy crawler) would be super simple for those of you who don’t want to have your child weilding sharp weapons of skin destruction.  Plus, it gives you or the hubbie a reason to use power tools 🙂

The most impactful piece in our Halloween porch-tacular is the spider web ‘rug’.  I usually don’t go uber graphic or modern but in this case, the high-impact floor covering works for our look (and our theme).  The best part?  It’s no-paint, no-mess, fifteen minute project…oh and it cost less than $20.  (stay tuned for the how-to details on the spider and web-rug later!)

What do you think?  Festive and fun, right?

Well, here’s the best part – Lowe’s Creative Ideas Magazine is giving you a chance to win a $50 gift card to spruce up your exterior (or interior)…let’s get them details on how to win, shall we?

  • PRIZE : $50 gift certificate to Lowes
  • NUMBER OF WINNERS : One (1)
  • TO ENTER : Leave a comment with the phrase ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB” and then tell me what you did to your pumpkin this year!  Is it a jack-o-lantern?  Any cool carvings?  Are you a painted pumpkin pro?  Any ribbon, stud, or puffy paint peeps?
  • PRIZE SHIPS :  The lower 48 states
  • NITTY GRITTY :  This giveaway ends on Friday, November 4th at 8am EDT.  Only one contest entry per email address.  The winners will be chosen using Random.org and announced on this post.

Oh and don’t forget to go over to Lowes Creative Ideas after entering this giveaway to subscribe to your free magazine…they have some really cute ideas in there…like mumkins and how to create a holiday photo backdrop and spooky shredded curtains for your porch!

 

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Congrats to Sara S.  – our winner of the $50 gift certificate to Lowe’s!

Her comment was…

“I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB.  We carved a breast cancer awareness ribbon and “hope” in honor of my mom and her fight against breast cancer!”

What a great reminder to all the trick-or-treaters!  Thanks Sara!  And remember to shoot me a quick email at [email protected] to claim your prize!  Thanks to everyone who entered and happy Halloween 🙂

 

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  1. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    we sadly ran out of pumpkin money this year (due to car trouble-ugh), but will be buying pumpkins (hopefully for cheap) on Monday to dress up the Thanksgiving decor since we’re hosting T’giving this year! We do plan on monogramming and I got tons of old Mason jars at a yard sale to use as pumpkins/lanterns this year!

    also. i. flipping. love. the spider web rug. can’t wait for the how-to! 🙂 have a spook-tacular holiday! 🙂

  5. I’m caught in your web!

    We live in the country and never have trick or treaters….but my husband has me get ‘a couple bags’ of candy every year, just in case. He always requests his favorites….and he gets to eat them all! 😉

  6. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We let the kids drill holes into some, and we painted some giant ones.

  8. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Smaller pumpkins got decorated by our boys. Nice black lines. A bit spooky!

  9. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I went with a carved Darth Vader themed pumkin, but the flies have already gotten to it. It’s sunken in and sad looking. Boo, indead!

    Gotta love Florida.

  10. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We haven’t bought pumpkins yet but plan on carving a few tomorrow!

  11. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We have pumpkins on our porch, but my favorite one is the one I made for inside the house. It’s on a framed piece of burlap and I sewed orange buttons in the shape of a pumpkin with a little stem made from brown buttons. It’s cute as a button! – literally!

  12. I’m caught in your web!

    We actually are leaving ours plain this year. It got cold here so they will last and I want to hold them over for general fall decorating.

  13. “I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!”

    My 12 year old daughter is into the duct tape phase. …thus our white pumpkins have all been made up with duct tape hair, bows, flowers, etc. 🙂 She’s a creative girl for sure.

  16. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We didn’t carve any pumpkins this year. With our first bun in the oven, I’m just too tired/lazy to mess with a pumpkin.

  17. Just came across your blog. Found you on YHL, (which I love) and I’m excited that I found your blog too! I recently moved to the Atlanta-ish area and have enjoyed finding my way around. Well, I just love your style and I look forward to following your blog! Thanks for blogging! Oh! And if you ever need a buddy for Scott’s Antique Market, I’m your girl!

  18. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB. We haven’t bought our pumpkin yet… it will probably be a Halloween day purchase:)

  19. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My husband did a cool haunted house on our pumpkin. It was our first year in a while to carve and it was a fun blast from the past to start the tradition back up!

  20. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! 🙂 We didn’t actually do pumpkins this year, which is sad. We don’t have kids, so we haven’t done them in a few years, but I’d like to start doing them again next year – it’s always so much fun!

  21. I AM CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    sadly no pumpkin at our house this year…but a carved one at my aunts and gma where we are headed to go trick or treating with the cousins this year!

  22. I’m caught in your web! We let our girls decorate their little pumpkins with “face” stickers, and I just did a monogram on out big one.

  23. I’m caught in your web!!! Unfortunately I’m a very poor college student, so the only pumpkins for me this Halloween are fake ones leftover from last year! At least they’re a little festive 🙂

  24. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    Our lone pumpkin is sitting (inside) by the front door, whole and uncarved. But it’s purty!

  26. Katie… I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB.

    No, seriously, I am. I am obsessed with your blog. And I would say that even if I didn’t want a $50 Lowe’s gift card more than life itself.

    Pumpkins? Well, I bought 3 this year, and a whole lot of pumpkin carving supplies and then… my Etsy shop took off and I have time for nothing (except reading blogs, obviously) anymore, so I sat the pumpkins on top of hay bales in front of my house and did absolutely nothing to them. The good intentions were nice while they lasted!

    I make art out of wood and nails and string, so Lowes is my home away from home. Basically, I was meant to win this giveaway, and I hope random.org agrees.

    Thanks, web weaver!

  27. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I haven’t done any pumpkins yet, but I’m planning on grabbing a few this weekend for some last-minute carving (and yes, carving is my thing). Last years were all Nightmare Before Christmas themed!

  30. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    I haven’t done anything exciting with the pumpkins this year, but I am definitely making the pumpkin spider next year!!

  31. I’m caught in you web.
    I bought a pumpkin, cut it up roasted it, and have made pumpkin soup(w/ bacon) yes!!! and pumpkin bread and my hubs made pumpkin pancakes. yum!!

  32. I’m Caught in your Web!!

    This year I painted my pumpkin rainbow colors (a la Meg Duerksen) and my hubby carved a creepy face in his pumpkin…Happy Halloween!

  33. i’m caught in your web!

    my daughter just learned to say fish, so in her honor, nemo (of finding nemo) found his way onto my pumpkin 🙂

  34. I’m caught in your web!!

    Love your decor! We made a haunted mansion and an owl out of our pumpkins. They looked great until it froze outside one night and then they were withered and mushy!

  35. i’m caught in your web!

    your front door looks amazing! love it!

    i didn’t get pumpkins this year because i live in an apartment. i could put one on the balcony, but wouldn’t really see it much. …and putting one outside the door is just inviting someone to smash or steal it. so sadly, i don’t have any pumpkins this year.

  37. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We haven’t cut our pumpkin this year, but last year we had a double pumpkin – looked look a tushie – and carved “comedy” on one side and “tragedy” on the other side. It was very cute!

  38. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We didn’t decorate the pumpkins in our apartment (we just placed a few on the mantel over the fireplace) but at work I stuck two rows of nails into the side of the pumpkin and wrapped string around the nails so it would look stitched. If we had a porch of our own I will definitely be making the spider pumpkin!

    Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!

  39. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We don’t have kids yet, so we haven’t carved since we were kids ourselves. Can’t wait to be blessed with a baby (or two) next year and start the pumpkin carving tradition with our family.

  40. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    We just do the usual, carving of the pumpkins. This is the first year I’ve seen so man OTHER options & I know I will try them one day, but probably not this year. Love your blog & your cute entrance.

  41. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I’ve had a sick 15 month old this weekend, so we haven’t gotten around to carving the pumpkin. 🙁 We live off a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, so we won’t get any trick or treaters, so no real decorating until the kid is old enough to want to, then we’ll start our tradition.

  42. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I wore my pumpkin on my shirt for our work Halloween party! I’m 7 1/2 months pregnant and I wore a black shirt with a pumpkin on the belly and it said “Pumpkin Smuggler.” Cheesy? Possibly. Is that why I loved it? Definitely.

  45. I’m caught in your web!
    My daughter painted her first pumpkin with fingerprint (thanks YHL!), my husband is still deciding and I used an apple corer to make a pattern of holes on my pumpkin!
    Lovin the rug – you have the perfect entry for it!
    Happy Halloween!!

  46. I’m caught in your web! We went old school and carved a toothy grinned face in our pumpkin this year.

  47. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I carved a witch, Alexys (13 years old) carved a scary face, and Logan (almost 11 months) is going to finger paint his today!

    Porch looks great! Awesome job!!

  48. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I baked mines and turned it into pumpkin snickerdoodles and pumpkin gingerbread! lol

  49. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    we were pretty basic with our carving. After halloween I threw the pumpkin into the back yard (I was hoping for a surprise pumpkin ala sherry) – maybe there’s a pumpkin ghost lurking?

  50. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We carved ours with simple faces this year…although mine sort of resembles the guy from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Hopefully we’ll get some trick-or-treaters this year too! The Halloween tradition here in Germany is slowly but surely catching on! 🙂

  51. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Shamefully, our pumpkins are still in the to-be-determined category. We let time slip by and haven’t had the chance to carve them up yet! Today is the day!

  52. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Our pumpkins aren’t carved yet, and I might leave them that way because then they can last through Thanksgiving!

  54. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I have three boys under 5, so we bought those push in type things at Target this year. Easy and mess free! Now we have Ironman, Spiderman, and a Pirate Mr. Potato Head sitting on our front steps! 🙂

  55. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We’re painting pumpkins today! We have a 14 month old and it will be his first time decorating pumpkins…so fun!

  56. I’m caught in your web! We are carving ours tonight..and there is one 6 year old here who wants to carve the Death Star. We’ll see how that goes 🙂

  57. I’m caught in your web!
    Unfortunately, we haven’t carved our pumpkins yet this year. They’re sitting on our front porch, just waiting for their big moment. Hopefully we have time this week to jazz them up a bit! 🙂 I loooooove your spider pumpkin & web rug – can’t wait to read about how you made that!!

  58. I’m caught in your web! I actually haven’t carved my pumpkin yet, but since we have a truck n’ treat at the church tonight and our Newly We small group is manning a table, I think I might do a scrolly heart or something lovey to help decorate the table.

  59. I’m caught in your web.

    I only have 1 pumpkin this year as both the hubs and I are going to be out of town for Halloween this year. I put black sparkles on my white pumpkin.

  60. I’m caught in your web! We haven’t bought a pumpkin this year. My husband says they are too expensive-grr! Next year I’ll buy twice as many! 🙂

  61. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    We haven’t carved ours, yet but we’re planning on using the drill to make a “Pinterest” inspired polka dot pumpkin! Like your boyfriend, my hubby is super excited to use his power tools on a giant pumpkin =) Hope you get lots of Trick or Treaters- we live in a n’hood FULL of kids and in the 3 years we’ve lived here, we’ve had maybe 5 actually ring our doorbell. Total. Makes me so sad =(

  65. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!! Love your front porch decorations! You are inspiring me to go see what I can do to rustle up some halloween magic on our front porch! We are also going to do some pumpkin carving today…the classic ol’ jack o’ lantern face is our favorite!

  69. I’m caught in your web! No pumpkin carving yet, but I’m thinking a monogram of some sort. You can never go wrong with a monogram!

  70. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! my boyfriend and i used two tiny pumpkins as dip bowls at our halloween party. we just cut them open, cleaned all the gunk out, and filled them with ranch! cheap ($1.50, plus the cost of some ranch) and easy (10 minutes, including coloring the outside with sharpies)!

  71. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I kept it simple this year with a smattering of mini pumpkins. They’re too cute not to buy.

  72. “I’m caught in your web!!” First off, LOVE your porch!!!! I’m do not like spiders, but that is an awesome spider web rug!!!! Can’t wait to see how you made it!!! 🙂

    I actually just painted my pumpkins this year!!!! Painted one with our family initial, one with polka dots, and one with ribbon!! SO cute!! 🙂

  75. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    This year I bought a ton (like 15) small pumpkins and covered them in glitter, different shades of orange, gold and black. I used them on my mantle, kitchen table and front porch, I LOVE THEM!!

  76. Can you explain how those orange ribbons are holding up your branch wreaths? I really want a front door wreath but have no idea how to actually hang it!

    Love the web rug idea – I’m thinking I might rip that one off!!

  77. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We live in a condo association with a bunch of older people, so I’m not expecting any trick or treaters this year. But hopefully we’ll be able to buy a house this year and have trick or treaters next year!

  78. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! LOVE the rug, we only have one lone pumpkin and he is slated to go under the carving knife later today. We don’t really plan so what he will become is a mystery.

  79. I’m Caught in Your Web!

    We are painting pumpkins today. Although I am seriously thinking of changing to the spider pumpkin. I LOVE it!

  80. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!! I LOVE your rug!!! I can’t wait to see how you did it! We carved our pumpkins last night. My son went with the classic face while my daughter (4) decided she wanted stars– and then said “no, wait! I want a butterfly!” but I had already started the small stars. So, I did a butterfly next to that. But, while carving it she said- “actually, I’d like a flower” so I made that butterfly into a flower. Then…. She said “I really like hearts the best…” So that flower is now a heart. It was a rather interesting look… Love your “Webster” though!

  81. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We have yet to do our pumpkins this year, hopefully today or tomorrow we will get to it. It will be our little boys first pumpkin carving experience. We thought about letting the little one paint them…..but we want to eat the yummy seeds!!

  82. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My hubby and I carved two pumpkins, one with a retro looking “S” since both of our first names and our last name all start with s, and one with a skull on fire that my hubby did. Both got eaten by squirrels 🙁

  83. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I’m not big into Halloween decorating, more into fall decorating. I purchased a couple of varieties of pumpkins at the farmer’s market and two big mums that are only starting to die after a few weeks. Its a new record for me.

  85. I’m Caught In Your Web! 🙂

    CUTEEEE front porch! We took some ideas from Pinterest and stacked three pumpkins and painted “BOO” on them along with carving the eiffel tower on a smaller pumpkin…aka my husband rocks!

  86. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We didn’t carve any pumpkins this year unless you count helping our German friend carve his first pumpkin ever! But we did paint some faux pumpkins.

    To be honest I just can’t wait to start decorating for Christmas!

    -Meg

  88. I’m caught in your web!

    We took our son, who turned one in September, to the pumpkin patch. He had so much fun and it was so fun for mommy & daddy to see him. We came home with three orange pumpkins and a white one (because I’m obsessed with the white pumpkin). We added a small hay bale, two big colorful mums and a scarecrow to the flower bed on the left side of our front door for a fun little fall decor. We usually dec the house out, but with a one year old at home, mommy taking a college course and working full time, and still recovering from a long road of illness that started last November – we stayed on the small side this year. Now Christmas may be a different story 🙂

  89. I’m caught in your web!

    Today is the day for pumpkin carving. I’m thinking about a funny face this year. I think that with our one pumpkin, I’ll carve one side and let my hubby carve the other side, so we can have a two-fer.

  91. I’m Caught in Your Web!
    My kids and I bought a few mini pumpkins. They painted them with some clearance finger paint I got at Target. They are so cute!

  92. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! My hubby and his buddy took to power tools (jigsaw and drill) to carve our 4 year old daughter her Jack-o-lantern this year. She thought it was great!! She painted a small pumpkin while they got to work on the big one.

  95. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! This year, we carved a ghost silhouette on our large pumpkin and used a small pumpkin, plastic vampire teeth, and red jawbreakers to make a vampire pumpkin.

  96. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!
    We typically carve our pumpkins, but my girls wanted to paint this year. I set them up with the paints and pumpkins and let them go! My son passed on doing anything to his, so I worked on it. I cut out black letters on my cricut machine and mod-podged the phrase “Trick or Treat” on the pumpkin. Then I added a moon and stars around the words. Looks good, just don’t know how waterproof it would be. LOVE the spider! Will have to do that next year. Super cute!

  98. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My kids designed their pumpkins, and I wielded the knife 🙂 We ended up with three “typical” pumpkin faces, and an angry bird pumpkin.

    Thanks for the tip on the spotlights!

  99. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB 🙂
    After looking for pumpkin carving ideas on Pinterest for an hour, I got overwhelmed and decided all the searching was taking the fun out of pumpkin carving. So we decided to have fun designing our own scary jack-o-lantern faces. Nothing pin-worthy came of it but we had a blast 🙂

  102. I’m caught in your web!

    We did some simple monograms on our carving pumpkins. Although, my favorite pumpkin related activity this year was roasting my own sugar pumpkins for making pie, soup, and bread (I had only planned on a pie, but my mistake of buying too many pumpkins has been a tasty one!)

  103. i’m caught in your web. . .

    We are planning on ‘doing’ pumpkins tonight. . . but I think the plan is the hubs and i will carve one & our girl (she’s 1) will paint a pumpkin a la Clara.

    p.s. the rug it cute!

  104. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We just went the easy route this year with a bunch of small pumpkins and gourds. Your porch looks awesome! I love the spider pumpkin and the web rug!

  105. I’m caught in your web!

    I did not buy any pumpkins this year, but my back porch is colorful with all the mums.

  107. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    This year we decided to carve a big one, I painted a medium size one and then we just put an M on the small one for Mason.

  108. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I live in Argyle, TX so it makes sense to paint an argyle pattern on my pumpkin! It was an easy project that looks great on my front porch!

  109. I’m caught in your web!
    The only thing I’ve done to my pumpkin is place him too close to the front door. A few times already, the wind has caught the storm door and flung the bottom corner right into my little guy (well, medium guy). He has a few scars.

  110. I’m caught in your web!

    With an 8 month old and a very busy husband there wasn’t any carving for us this year. Instead I used black paint to add some calligraphy to one pumpkin and made the other into a jack-o-lantern –except I used tape to create and face and then painted the entire pumpkin black so the face stands out orange.

    I love the spider! I’m definitely pinning it to pinterest so I can make one next year!

  111. I’m caught in your web!

    I teach Kindergarten, so I had my class vote on our Jack O Lantern face, then we’ll watch it decompose over the next few months.

    Love your porch!!

  113. I’m caught in your web!

    I haven’t actually had a chance to do anything to my pumpkins yet. If I have time, I’m going to do a painted monogram, for sure.

  114. I’m caught in your web!!

    Nothing creative this year with pumpkins for me this year. But we don’t have kids. But when I do, I can’t wait to go all out… carving pumpkins with my parents are some of my favorite childhood memories.

  115. I’m caught in your web!

    We haven’t done our pumpkins yet, but actually plan to today. I think we’re going with a monogram and maybe some modge podge + leaves on the other one. I love your spider pumpkin!

  116. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We haven’t done anything yet – we’re carving our pumpkins tomorrow. But we usually try and do some sort of silly face; always a classic!

  117. I’m caught in your web!!! Sadly, our pumpkins were stolen off our front porch last week… 🙁 Now I’m afraid to buy more to carve in case the thieves come back!

  118. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!”

    wellllllll went “au naturale” this year. they look so lovely in their nature state! aka i got lazy ha ha

  119. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    This year, we haven’t done anything to our pumpkins…yet! We plan on painting them, but our house in under some pretty BIG renovations!

  122. I’M CAUGHT IN YO WEB!

    It sounds better gangsta style, right? haha

    We haven’t carved our big pumpkin yet {it’s on the to do list for tonight} but I did have some fun with a mini-pumpkin and some vampire fangs a-la Martha Stewart. I saw the idea on Pinterest and I have to say, I will definitely be doing this every year from now on, it’s so easy and it looks hilarious!

    http://pinterest.com/pin/290890438/

  123. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!
    I love the decorations 🙂 Unfortunately, no pumpkins yet for us. I’m traveling around the country interviewing for medical residency. the worst part about it is I cant roast any pumpkin seeds!

  124. I’m caught in your web!!!

    Wow – your entry way looks amazing. I love love love it and the stone makes it that much more “spooky” I think.

    No pumpkins for us – the squirrel’s eat them every year!

  126. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I carved our jack o’ lantern to look like our six month old — complete with the dimple in her cheek!

  128. I’m caught in your web!

    We did the standard jack o lanterns this year. Per my nephews request we made a scary one and a nice one!

  130. I’m caught in your web!!!

    We just do regular faces, but this year we put candy corn in the mouth as teeth!

  131. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    I carved ours into a jack-o-lantern and sat him on our porch with some fall containers, inspiration courtesy of the internet. 🙂

  132. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    No pumpkins this year. Husband and I both are working Halloween night so did not go all out decorating.

  133. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We carved them up for the first time with our 15 month old. I thought she would be pretty into scooping out the guts, but all she wanted to do was kiss the pumpkin. 🙂 Kids are adorable.

  134. I’m caught in your web!
    Have yet to do anything to the pumpkin yet. I’m hoping to give it a paint job though!

  135. We are actually doing our pumpkins tonight. As we learned during our first Halloween in Florida 6 years ago…pumpkins only last a couple days in the humidity. So, to have freshly carved pumpkins for our trick-or-treaters, tonight is the big carving night!

    I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Thanks for the giveaway!

  136. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    One of our pumpkins had already started to rot, and we couldn’t find a single one left in our neighborhood yesterday. So, we improvised and carved a watermelon 🙂

  137. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Just last night we carved our pumpkin for the first time in 4 years of buying pumpkins. We went traditional Jack-O-Lantern route.

  138. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB – Leaving the carving up to the hubby and kids. Usually something classic. The spider idea is very cute may have to try that.

  141. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I didn’t do pumpkins this year, as my husband is away for training for the month, and I didn’t want to be the sad one doing it all by myself. So instead I built a headboard.

    Last year I did a PIMPkin (am I allowed to say that? haha). He had dollar signs for eyes and a great big mouth with an aluminum foil “grill.”

  142. I’m caught in your web! – We bought three pumpkins this year, and I’m the crafty one so I totally thought I could monogram a pumpkin better then Martha Stewart in sub 30 mins. Well 60 mins later, I had a large hole in a pumpkin, and my husband had successfully carved “Happy Halloween” in his, in 15 mins flat, and was already enjoying pumpkin seeds. I’m now officially having a “humble halloween”. P.S.-I am super new to the blog, and really like it 🙂

  143. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    One scary and one friendly pumpkin greet our trick-or-treaters!

    Awesome job on the porch, very creative!

  145. I’m caught in your web!! We will carve our pumpkins today. I plan to use some too-large okra (bright green) for horns on my pumpkin – sort of a Shrek look!

  147. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!
    We stuck wooden parts on our pumpkin to make a pumpkin bat.
    Love your porch, by the way!

  148. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!! We bought pumpkins this year for our front porch, but didn’t decorate them. I could tell people that we’re letting nature be our decoration, but really, I was just lazy.

  150. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Sadly, our one lone pumpkin has yet to be carved or decorated. The plan is to do him up as a standard jack-o-lantern tonight before we get trick-or-treaters tomorrow. I do love the spider pumpkin though so I may have to try that next year as it would go perfectly with the spider wreath I made this year. And with two young boys (1 and 3 years), I totally hear you on the G-rated Halloween decor! Oh, and I am in love with the spider web rug- if we had a bigger porch area, I would totally copy that too!!

  151. I’m caught in your web…

    super simple intial. First married halloween and I wanted to represent my new name… husband got a little more creative and did a dragon and knight… which promptly rotted and thrown out. oh well 🙂

  152. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We went to the pumpkin patch in early October and got a daddy pumpkin, mommy pumpkin, and baby pumpkin for our 2 year and they’ve been sitting on our front porch with our mums ever since! No carving, no paint, nothing…maybe next year!

  153. I’m caught in your web! We bought a HUGE pumpkin and carved it out and put my 5 month old nephew and then my 10 month old niece in it. Cutest pictures ever!

  154. I’m caught in your web!

    We don’t usually do pumpkins, but we carved them with our church group this year, so we did a simple cat carving.

  155. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    Love the toddler friendly decor!!!! Genius!

    This year I went with the black and white theme for the pumpkins, painted them white, and added a black silhouette to one, and chevrons to another!

    Thanks!

  156. I’m caught in your web!

    My last pumpkin creation was a white pumpkin and I carved it to look like a cat. Whiskers and little ears that stood up and everything. She was super cute.

  158. “I’m caught in your web”

    I spray painted fake pumpkins with black board paint.

    My grandbabies are really little so we just got baby pumpkins for them to hold

    so cute!

  159. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB….

    But for real! I really LOVE the web rug you made! How creative!

    This year, my pumpkins are painted with inspiration and instructions from younghouselove! The two of you are great!

    Thanks for the ideas!

  160. “I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”. I work at a zoo and Boo at the Zoo is our busiest day of the year. After coordinating tons of college students to carve pumpkins for the animals and also having 300 + high school students lug pumpkins all over the zoo, I am perfectly content to just have pretty plain pumpkins sitting on my front porch! (Although next year I want to decoupage on like they did in the CL magazine. Or maybe paint one white with a gold stem and gold specks splattered). Or…. maybe paint a scary haunted house theme like CL did last year.
    Hmmmm…… I guess I probably should make a pumpkin this year after all. I wonder if we have any left over at work that I can snag.

  161. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We carved yesterday…we did a few jack-o-lanterns. My 2 year old had no interest in touching the ‘guts’ so he took a marker and stickers to his pumpkin. 🙂

  162. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    I carved a paint horse based on the American Paint Horse Association logo 🙂 (What – I live in Idaho! 😉

  163. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    No pumpkin carving but we found some awesome pumpkins made out of branches that light up from HobbyLobby. Very rustic-halloween-chic! Haha

  165. I AM CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!
    We did the traditional carvings… I did our initial and a paw print for the pooch. The hubs did what he calls a traditional face- I call it uncreative!! 🙂

  166. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We like to get one big family pumpkin! We go for the simple, clean, classic look!

  167. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    I spray painted a plastic dollar store pumpkin. At least i can reuse it next year!

  168. I’m caught in your web!

    My pumpkin display is classic this year. A huge pumpkin at my front door, completely au naturale.

  169. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Sadly, we didn’t do a thing with our pumpkin this year, but we’re enjoying seeing yours!!

  172. I’m caught in your web!

    We haven’t carved our pumpkins. I actually wasn’t planning to but am inspired by everyone else’s ideas so maybe we’ll tackle it tonight.

    I love your spider web!

  173. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    My husband and I carve our pumpkins! This year, I carved a basket weave into my pumpkin while my husband scraped away a Georgia Bulldog into his pumpkin! 🙂

  174. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We live in the country without any Trick or Treaters, so we did not carve our pumpkins, so that hopefully they will last longer, but my mom and I did go to the pumpkin patch and pick the pumpkins, like we used to when I was a kid!

  175. I’m caught in your web!

    This year we let our 20 month old decorate the pumpkin with paint and stickers. What an adventure!!

  176. I’m caught in your web! We got 5 pumpkins this year, mostly interesting green/yellow/white ones that we left uncarved, except for one traditional orange one that my boyfriend carved a Guy Fawkes face onto (think V for Vendetta)

  178. I’m caught in your web!

    Sadly, we only indulged in a teesy-tiny pumpkin this year. Perhaps once we move into a house and kiddies come along, we will get more into the season!

  179. I’m caught in your web!! No pumpkin this year…but last year, there was puff paint and ribbon!

  180. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We bought two pumpkins to carve- one was stolen, and one got eaten by something (we think maybe the little masked burglar of the the animal world was responsible…)!

    So I don’t know what we’ll do. Trick-or-Treat is tomorrow, so if we have time we may just have to do something simple. “Pumpkin Classic :)”

  181. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We were such slackers this year and didn’t even DO pumpkins at our house! We did however go over to my mum’s house and watched my nephew carve out his 🙂

  183. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We used a circle bit to drill holes in a funky design in our pumpkin! We also carved our house number into 3 stacked pumpkins for cool porch decor! 🙂

  184. I’m caught in your web!

    It’s the day before Halloween and we have yet to carve our pumpkin. Better get it done (what’s Halloween without one??) because I’m itching to pull out my Xmas decor.

  185. I’m caught in your web!

    Well, we decided to carve pumpkins last night (10/29/11) but went to 4 different stores and they were out. We have our regular halloween decor out, so we just had a outdoor fire instead. Next year!

  186. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Love that porch! This year, I put out a plastic jack-o-lantern and filled it with string lights!

  187. I’m caught in your web! We carved three an spray painted some others. One medium orange pumpkin with silver glitter spray paint and two little white ones with the silver glitter, as well. And one other pumpkin we spray with glow in the dark (primed with white first). It’s pretty cool.

  188. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    We carved 2 pumpkins this year with our niece. One is a ghost and one is a cat!

  189. I’m caught in your web!!!

    I haven’t bought my pumpkin yet this year although I have ceramic pumpkins in my house that are all aglow by candle light!

  190. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    We carved a breast cancer awareness ribbon and “hope” in honor of my mom and her fight against breast cancer!

    Sara S.

  191. I’m caught in your web!

    And because I am a relatively poor college student consumed by design studio schoolwork and studying for tests, I didn’t do a pumpkin this year! Hopefully next year!

  192. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB.
    Sadly the pumpkin fairy (aka Daddy) was unavailable to decorate this month and our house is woefully pumpkin-less.

  194. I’m caught in your web!!!

    Sadly, we haven’t done a pumpkin yet. I fully intend to do so with my little man (20 months old) on Halloween day. I think we will “paint” our pumpkin so he can participate.

    Love your outdoor decor! Great job!

  195. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Pumpkins and black puffy paint…be impressed 🙂 Kinda ran out of our normal over the top carving spirit so went more “pinterest” instead 🙂

  196. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We don’t actually have any pumpkins this year. 🙁 I just started a new job and we were out of town last weekend and I guess it just slipped our minds. And Halloween is one of our favorite holidays! Okay, that’s it. I’m going to get a pumpkin now.
    For the record, we’ve always carved our pumpkins before, but I’ve seen some really great painted ‘kins on pinterest that I want to try.

  197. I’m caught in your web!! We got five pumpkins for carving at our halloween party! Hubby gutted them all and I roasted the seeds. The pumpkins themselves got quite a few faces courtesy of our guests!

  198. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB …nothing yet has been done to our pumpkins except a little sharpie coloring by my kids. They(I) could really use a $50 Lowes makeover! 🙂

  199. I’m caught in your web! Just a couple pumpkins one gray, one orange, and a couple mums this year. Left everything as is, so they’ll still look good for when we host Thanksgiving.

  202. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”
    I kept my pumpkins uncarved this year. White and blue on the porch and lots of little orange and striped minis inside.

  203. I’m caught in your web

    What a beautiful Halloween display you have! This year
    we carved pumpkins… This is our first Halloween in our new home so I’m excited to see who comes for Halloween trick-or-treating!

    Hope you have a great day!
    Rachel

  204. I’m caught in your web.
    We simply carved faces this year. I love to let the imagination of my five year old go wild!

  205. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I’m a sucker for the standard jack o lantern. Can’t go wrong with those guys!

  206. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I’m a sucker for the standard jack o lantern. Can’t go wrong with those guys!

  207. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We carved 2 and I bought some “artsy” ones (meaning not orange but other colors) that are decorating the front porch along with the interesting carvings my boys each did on theirs! (Professional they are NOT, but they had a great time carving them).

    I’m really impressed with what you did! Looks great.

  208. I’m Caught In Your Web! I actually think our pumpkins turned out better than ever. I finally gave in and bought a cutting kit from walmart and it helped tremendously. Anyhow, I made a picture with two ghosts and a bat….so cute and my husband made a spooky face. I think it was fun family time and our son loved seeing them with the candles!

  210. I’m caught in your web! Katie, I’m mainly posting to tell you how much I love your front-porch decorations! I never really decorate for halloween, but I love seeing what other people do, especially when it’s affordable/attainable. I do have a small pumpkin on my sewing table, but I didn’t do anything to it. I just think it’s cute. Clearly I need inspiration like yours…. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway!

  211. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    As sad as it makes me, we went the thrifty, yet crafty route this year and decided to make the milk jug ghosts I saw on pinterest instead of carving pumpkins. Webster is making me miss those pumpkins, though!

  212. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    we went to the pumpkin patch and let our boys pick out pumpkins to carve.
    with daddy’s help, they designed and carved them.
    we set them on the porch and they promptly rotted and caved in on themselves…guess that’s what happens when it’s 85 degrees in october. 😉

  213. I’m caught in your web!

    Our pumpkin is still sitting on the counter, uncarved, but I’m going to carve it up tonight and put it on the porch (and then roast the seeds!).

  214. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    we actually didn’t make a pumpkin this year. My hubs doesn’t have a job and so we can’t afford anything but needs rather than wants. I have been living vicariously through pinterest and other peoples blogs!

  215. I’m caught in your web!

    Sadly, we just bought pumpkins and have not done anything to them. My excuse: a newly four-year-old and newly two-year-old too young to really care and a 4 week old baby. I’m still in crazy newborn, barely sleeping life. Good excuse? =)

  216. “I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”
    We painted our pumpkins this year! No mess and super fun! Love the porch, and Webster is adorable! 🙂

  217. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I, uh, don’t have a pumpkin. Yet. I’m planning on getting one tomorrow!

  218. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Sadly our pumpkins are unadorned so far…… but i am thinking of carving our monogram in one of them ! 🙂

  221. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We were a little late on the pumpkin train…. we tried to buy one today, and couldn’t find one anywhere! Sad day 🙁

  223. I’m caught in your web! The only pumpkin I’ve bought this year is canned. I got to watch all my cousins’ kids carve pumpkins at my aunt’s Halloween party, though. It’s fun to see 9 lighted jack o’lanterns all lined up.

  226. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My pumpkin has a scary smiley face & my husband did Wario…(Mario’s evil brother/twin/whoever he is…)

  227. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    We carved pumpkins and did an 80’s toy theme. G.I. Joe and my little ponies!

  228. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    Cute porch, Katie! My little one is also too young for pumpkin carving, so we just set a small assortment of pumpkins on the porch. But I did get my craft on by spray painting a grapevine wreath with glossy black paint and decorating it with a furry bat, some glittery skulls, and a bunch of glow in the dark spiders. When I asked my husband what he thought of it, he said “it’s hideous.” And I replied, “Excellent!” 😉

  229. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    my pumpkin was pretty simple this year- just a jackolantern (non-scary)- but I did add a speech bubble that said “hi.” that was fun.

  230. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! My pumpkins are all painted black and white with orange bows. I know….not scary at all.

  231. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We just did a traditional jack o lantern for our 2 boys! And my 3 year old painted a “baby” pumpkin with some markers.

  233. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I actually painted pumpkins this year. They turned out cheerful and bright. It made me happy!

  234. I’m caught in your web!

    We only bought one little sugar pumpkin this year – and I baked it into a pumpkin pie. It was delicious!

  235. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We bought five beautiful pumpkins + squash of various sizes, colors and shapes. On Tuesday, I plan to roast them all to make pumpkin/squash puree for baking + roasted seeds!

    We just bought our house in April, so we have no idea how many trick-or-treaters we’ll get. But we bought three bags of candy just in case, so I hope we get a lot!

  236. I’m caught in your web!!
    We don’t get ANY trick-or-treaters which makes me so sad, so instead of carving pumpkins I make a pretty table arrangement with little baby pumpkins, apples, and candles.

  237. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    Didn’t carve ’em, painted them white with some silver details! Not too exciting but then again we’ve had enough excitement with the snow up here in NY 🙂

  238. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I bought a (60 cent!) pumpkin and decorated it with swirls of black glitter puff paint and tied a big black bow on the stem. It looks very pretty anf feminine – not spooky and halloween-y at all!

  239. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    Oh dear miss Katie, that little Webster has solidified my girl crush on you! Haha, he is so cute and I love the fact that in years to come, all you need is a fresh pumpkin! I went all out last year for Halloween…carved pumpkins, decorations, and enough candy to feed thousands of chocolate loving kids, only to find out that were lucky to even get 10 costume clad buckaroos. I still have my fingers crossed for this year! (OK maybe I got the candy I liked just to have an excuse to eat it all when the kids don’t show again!)

  240. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB” … this year, we grew our own pumpkin! Well, actually we bought a house and the pumpkin was growing (where they had thrown their pumpkins out last year), but we still count it as an accomplishment that we didn’t later kill it. 🙂

  241. I’m caught in your web. I painted my pumpkins with chalkboard paint and then wrote on them, it was cute.

  243. “I’m caught in your web!”

    We actually did not carve pumpkins this year. 🙁 I guess we still have time!

  245. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    No pumpkin craving this year but lots of pumpkin recipes! Love seeing the pics of your little one. What a future heart breaker!

  246. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We didn’t do pumpkins this year 🙁 Sadly we live in an apartment and nobody would be able to see them… I’m going to try to pick up some fake ones on clearance and spruce up my indoor decor for fall. I can’t wait to attempt some of my pinterest ideas!

  249. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I’m with the other Floridians, pumpkins get done tonight. I’m thinking an animal assortment, cats, bats and maybe a ghost. I’m not that skilled with a knife. In fact, I think my husband would prefer if I don’t handle sharp objects in general…

  250. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! My daughter and I attended a halloween party for her girl scout troop and we had a mass pumpkin carving session. So much fun and fun seeing what all the girls came up with. Happy Halloween! Love the decorations!

  251. I’m caught in your web! Usually we carve our pumpkins in an old school nintendo theme. However, we are in the middle of moving from our house (& have yet to find a new one!) so we are skipping out this year. Lame, I know 🙂

  252. CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Carved my new initial – L – first married Halloween together! And a few spooky faces!

  253. I’m caught in your web!!

    Our pumpkins are buried under a foot of snow right now 🙁
    I love your spider though!

  254. I’m Caught In Your Web!!!! We used mini pumpkins this year and used sewing pins to write “boo” on them…a letter on each pumpkin. Simple and sweet!

  255. I’m caught in your web!

    We did not do anything to them this year, because we wanted a fall porch design. They are so cute! My nephew did his as a bat for batman. Looked pretty cool!

  256. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    sadly, this year all we did was arrange our pumpkins in a cute set-up and let them speak for themselves! next year, we’re definitely going to decorate them somehow!

  257. I AM CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! My pumpkins were pretty lame this year. I carved them with friends from work so one was a jack-o-lantern and the other had polk-a-dots. My dogs got to eat the inside of the pumpkins and I got to eat the awesome pumpkin seeds 🙂

  259. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    I did pumpkin towers this year. Big ones one the porch and little ones inside.

  260. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB” – I like to carve my pumpkins the old fashion way. A knife. No fancy tools or patterns here!

  261. I’m caught in your web! My son used his pumpkin for a “pumpkin book report” at school & we painted it to look like the character in the book he did his report on. He just informed me that we HAVE to carve a pumpkin, so I guess I’ll be getting another one tomorrow to carve!

  262. I’m caught in your web!
    I didn’t do anything fun with pumpkin carving, but I had lots of fun eating pumpkin bread!

  263. I’m caught in your web!

    Our pumpkin got the Elmo treatment this year! Its our little man’s first Halloween and he is obsessed with Elmo so we thought it would be the best way to pay tribute to a seven month old that can’t quite decorate his own pumpkin yet. Next year, little one!

  264. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! All I did with pumpkins this year was….eat them 🙂 I just moved into a new place, so mums were about all the holiday themed decor I could manage, I’ve got too much going on inside! But I have been eating everything pumpkin flavored I can get my hands on!

  265. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    Sadly (for my pumpkin), my pumpkin was baked into pumpkin bread (yay for me!).

  266. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB….we are celebrating my grandmother’s 94th birthday! For years I believed my dad that she was actually born in a pumpkin patch. Turns about she wasn’t but it has always been super cool to have a grandmother born on Halloween!

  267. I’m caught in your web!!! We didn’t do anything to our pumpkins this year…just left them as is and scattered them around a hay bail set up on our porch. I actually really liked it!

  268. I’m caught in your web!!

    We haven’t done anything just yet to our pumpkins. We are having a carving contest tomorrow night with our friends so we will get our creative carves on then!

  269. I”M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    I didn’t do my porch this year, but we decorated the back of my Honda CRV for Trunk or Treat at church tonight.

    We carved one pumpkin with ghosts… THe other two were painted using patterns out of the carving book. I traced it onto painters tape and cut out the design. My girls (9 & 3) painted the design in black. All three pumpkins went into the back of the car on top of a navy blue sheet / backdrop. I also pilfered the battery powered candles and some other fall decor from the house to finish it off. Very festive!

  270. I’m CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My pumpkins got the quickest carving possible this year….toddler was tantruming!

  271. I’m caught in your web.

    Sadly, I have 2 pumpkins on our porch but we haven’t made the time to carve them yet. We just moved into our new house and it hasn’ t happened. Maybe the Halloween spirit will motivate me tomorrow to do it??

  272. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    My 4-year-old and I paint our pumpkins. I try to draw the face and let her color it, but she gets a little creative and paint-happy, and our lady pumpkin usually looks bruised and battered by the end.

  273. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    I don’t have a pumpkin this year! 🙁 I have less then 24 hours to fix this! Oh wait, does pumpkin ice cream count?!?!

  274. I’m caught in your web!

    We are going simple this year…. just carving Jack O’ Lanterns tomorrow afternoon before the kiddos start showing up.

  276. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    I’m ashamed to say we don’t even have a pumpkin this year. But last year this time, we were getting ready for our wedding, which featured white pumpkins as centerpieces! Nov. 6 will be one year 🙂

  277. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    Our pumpkin hasn’t gotten any kind of makeover whatsoever – he’s sitting on our front porch steps amongst our mums!

  279. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    I’m so lame… we don’t even have pumpkins, except for the green and white one I bought at the market to bake into baby food for my almost 7 month old son!

  280. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! This year I rescued some sharpie marker-ed pumpkins from a kids project at my church, and since I wasn’t down with the whole picasso-esque look the 5th graders were surely going for, I just spray painted them with flat black spray paint. No time for carving this year, so free + easy = the way to go. LOVE your porch and spider web rug!

  281. I’m caught in your web! No carving for us… we decided to use a Sharpie to decorate our pumpkin this year. The kids love it!

  282. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I did the standard jack-o-lantern face and my husband did a shout out carving to the Texas Rangers for the World Series (sadly, that didn’t go so well). I love your spider pumpkin. 🙂

  283. I’m caught in your web! This year I painted pumpkins silver and a gold/orange color to put on the mantle!

  286. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Your porch looks fabulous! We just carved a pumpkin this year (my first, ever) with a cross and fish. It actually looks pretty cool.

  287. I’m caught in your web! Minnie mouse and pirates if the carribbean skull and crossbones for our little trick or treaters 🙂

  288. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    I’m carving tomorrow to keep our pumpkin fresh – it will be a game time decision!

  289. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    This year I did a “Pinterest” idea! I wrapped 3 medium pumpkins in black socks, each with different patterns. It left the COOLEST design all over them. This year, I’m lovin me some sexy pumpkins!
    I’m posting pictures tomorrow, so head on over to my page to chek them out. My guess is that you’ll also be.in.love. :0)

  291. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    Each of our kids got to pick a design for their pumpkin this year. We ended up with a ghost, a bat and a spooky ghoul face.

  292. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I went with the family initials pumpkin. I also snagged a thrifted wreath for 3 bucks and an orange mum for 5. Our porch is feeling festive and ready for the kids tomorrow!

  293. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB.
    The only thing I’ve done with pumpkins this year is partake in the delight of pumpkin baked goods!

  294. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Turned out quite cute. Not much decor at my house this year, but we’ve made a haunted house area in my department at work. XD

  295. “I’m caught in your web!”
    This year’s pumpkin was my first completed Pinterest project. I completed a Martha Stewart illuminated pumpkin, complete with strings of Christmas lights. My husband helped me drill 1/4 in holes in straight lines and I strung the lights. Adorable!!!

  296. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    my husband carved 3 pumpkins for our 3 kids! they turned out awesome and the kids loved them!!

  297. I’m Caught in Your Web! Every year I have such high hopes for carving the pumpkins…but then by the time we’re done scooping them out (aka flinging pumpkin goo all over the kitchen) with the kids all I have the energy to do is cut a couple circles and triangles out for faces. Maybe next year when the kids are a little older we will again try to be more creative!

  298. I’m caught in your web!

    This year we had our nieces and nephews over and let them do the carving. They are certainly “homemade” in appearance but probably our favorites yet 🙂

  299. im caught in your web!

    I havent done anything to our one lonely pumpkin. We live on the 3rd floor in a condo building, so no one sees it and we dont have any kids yet. Im waiting until halloween is over to open it up and take the seeds out to roast them!

  300. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We are moving across the country on Tuesday (my hubby is in the military and he’s being activated) so we spent our weekend packing 🙁 We could really use the gift card for our new place! But I’m totally stealing your Webster idea next year!!

  301. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!
    I’m pretty simple (and by simple i mean i can’t carve to save my life) so ours are just a grouping of different sized pumkins – and the best part is they can stay out for a little longer since their “fall-ish” not just halloween-ish!

  302. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We didn’t get too creative this year. We have one ghost carving, and one that our daughter painted (she basically just mixed up all the colors so it’s mostly gray). We have one more that we are carving tomorrow night because we ran out of time, and then we have a bunch of mason jar pumpkins that we made at a Halloween party.

    I really wanted to do three carvings spelling “Boo” but I let L pick and she went for the ghosts!

  303. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    Too keep it simple/lazy, I just placed two large pumkins on each side of the front door. It doubles for halloween and fall.

  304. I’m Caught In Your Web!

    We made a “holy” pumpkin or as I prefer to call it, our polka dottey pumpkin. We took a drill to our pumpkin and made a bunch of polka dots!

  305. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    You have a very cute Halloween display.. Love it!

    I left my pumpkins plain this year.. Going for more of the fall look instead of halloween-ish, that way I can keep my pumpkins through Thanksgiving. I’m a cheapskate!

  306. I’m Caught in your Web!

    Awesome porch! I love the G-rated decorating! I don’t like the gory blood-and-guts stuff. 🙂

    The only pumpkin I bought this year so far was in a can to make muffins with! But I’m thinking I may try to get some funkins at Michael’s tomorrow if they have any left. Better late than never, right?!

  307. IM CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I got a pumpkin to carve, but haven’t found the time yet (inexcusable) and probably won’t before Halloween. Thus I will make it a turkey pumpkin. Not sure how, but a pumpkin will be carved this year.

  310. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I carved a cat-bat (using a pattern) and spent the evening carving pumpkins with all my friends!

  311. I AM CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!
    We bought a pumpkin for each child (3) and we let the kids paint them this year. We typically carve them but this year we opted to paint them and that way we can display them longer (hopefully until Thanksgiving). Love your spider…..way too adorable!

  313. “I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”
    We carved pumpkins this year- a jackolantern, a spooky cat, a bat, and mickey mouse for the kiddo. Plus our 2 year old painted a pumpkin!

  314. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! My pumpkins just have regular spooky or funny faces carved in them. Unfortuantely they are covered in snow! Arg

  316. I’m caught in your web!

    I planted pumpkins in the garden this year and for Halloween I picked over 80 of them. I didn’t carve or decorate them but they look great on my front porch.

  317. i’m caught in your web!
    we ran out of time this year for pumpkin carving… my bad. but a Lowe’s gift card would be a big help in dealing with all the bigger house projects we’ve had going on lately…

  318. “I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    I must be the only person who doesn’t like Halloween. Just set out a pumpkin. Boring!

  321. I’m caught in your web! I have made pumpkin cookies…orange frosting and pumpkin candies on top. Delicious!!

  322. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB
    It is horrible but we haven’t bought a pumpkin this year! I can’t remember ever not having a pumpkin on our front porch. And usually I have a whole display but somehow this fall got away from us (and the pumpkins at the local pumpkin patch were crazy expensive when we would have usually bought some there.) ::hangs head in shame:: If it counts, I have fake pumpkins everywhere inside my house and on my front door! I love harvest decorations!

  323. I’m caught in your web!

    We’ve been busy this year and haven’t had a chance to carve our pumpkin, maybe tonight since we won’t have any trick-or-treaters. We need those pumpkins seeds.

  325. I’m caught in your web!

    I never even got a real pumpkin this year! Isn’t that the most pathetic thing you’ve ever heard? And it’s totally true. I’ll do better next year, I promise. But I’ve been making use of lots of canned pumpkin, so maybe that counts?

  327. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    If it’s true that the road to Hades is paved with good intentions, I’ve built myself a four lane highway leading straight there. The kids and I picked up hay bales, Indian corn, and pumpkins of just about every shape, size, and color. I intended to have a “family pumpkin night” and carve up the biggest ones, but between the school projects, the state fair, Scout camping weekend, cheerleading, and all the other crazy that goes on here on a minute-by-minute-basis, we just never got around to it. (See what I mean about the intentions?) The good news is my uncarved pumpkins will last through Thanksgiving, and seeing as I host our annual Gratitude Gathering for the extended family, it means I only have to buy big decor pumpkins once.

  328. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    After years of complicated carvings, for our first halloween with two kids, we went simple – a cute little happy face.

  329. I’m caught in your web! Ack! 🙂 No pumpkins this year, but maybe with a gift card… Your porch looks great- I love that it isn’t over the top halloweeny, and the rug is great- drop cloth and tape?

  330. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! IF I can find a pumpkin so late in the game (how has October slipped away so fast???), I likely won’t carve it, but instead, make dinner in it! It’s our annual Halloween tradition – dinner in a pumpkin! You scoop out out all the goop, and then filler up with chicken, rice, veggies, soup… and make a yummy casserole right in the pumpkin! When you serve up your chicken-and-rice casserole, you get to enjoy the pumpkin squash with your meal! Delish!

  331. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Our pumpkin is currently defrosting in the kitchen sink so I can carve it tonight… We had the winter storm and got tons of snow over it this weekend!

  332. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB….

    I’m so bad, we didn’t do pumpkins at all this year. One of my sons went to a friend’s house and carved, but I’m so lame here at my house!!

  333. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We don’t celebrate Halloween, but I did buy some canned pumpkin to make smoothies this week. Does that count?

  334. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We did some fun carvings on our pumpkins (ghosts, welcome sign, and a grim reaper). But since we carved them a week ago, they haven’t been looking so good with those few 85 degree days we had. Of course, today we woke up to a low 30’s freezing weather. Great.

  335. I’m Caught In Your Web! I didn’t have time to carve a pumpkin this year, which makes me really sad, but I’ve got plenty of ideas for next year! I can’t wait for the little trick-or-treaters tonight though!

  336. “I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    We are pretty big Pittsburgh fans, so when we caught site of the new NFL/NHL themed pumpkins we knew we had to spend the money on them. Sitting out front of our house is a wonderful Steelers pumpkin (carved by the boy) and a fantastic Penguins pumpkin (carved by me). We’re very proud of our team spirit!

  339. I’m caught in your web!

    We carved pumpkins for Halloween. I want our kids to make some turkey pumpkins for a Thanksgiving centerpiece.

  341. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Love your decorations! We just went simple this year with our pumpkins and left them as they are on the porch, but the munchkin did get to stick his hands in the gooey mess of pumpkin carving at Grandma and Grandpa’s house yesterday!

  342. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    Carved a pumpkin with triangle eyes and a big round mouth…designed by my boyfriend’s nieces (7 and 10).

  344. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    no pumpkins for us this year (*tear). we moved this weekend so we didn’t want the hassel of moving jack-o-lanterns with us.

    loving the porch makeover!

  345. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We carved 2 regular jack-o-lanterns this year, and then I got tired of scooping goo & sharpied a couple more.

  346. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We took the Petersiks idea from last year and used our 11 mo. old’s hand tracings for a pattern to cut out the eyes and then a toothy grin on the pumpkin to match our little guy.

  347. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB
    I painted a few with dots, chevron with monogram and a little jackolanten face. There was also some puffy paint as well as carving. I am all about pumpkins!

  348. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We did monogrammed pumpkins this year with scrapbook paper & mod-podge 🙂

  349. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    I carved a pumpkin this year & made roasted pumpkin seeds too! I hadn’t carved a pumpkin in YEARS, so I had a lot of fun doing it. I used a pumpkin carving template & did ghosts. I love it… the smell of pumpkin is amazing!

  350. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    My two girls are 8 and 11, so we did pumpkin carving where they chose a design. With a little help from Mom and Dad, the pumpkins were carved. We also have some awesome and easy Mr. Potato Head parts that are so easy to just stick in a real pumpkin. So cute and easy! Happy Halloween!

  351. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    We aren’t big carvers, but we did group our pumpkins (and got a beautiful green Cinderella) on our porch.

  354. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! My husband and 2 sons are SuperHero Freaks. My 4 year old is dressing up as Batman for Halloween so they carved one of our pumpkins with the Bat signal. It turned out great!

  355. I’m caught in your web!
    I really wanted to do a monogram pumpkin with some ribbon but the hubs vetoed that and we did the classic jack-o-lantern this year. Just means I get to have it my way next year! 😉

  358. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    I didn’t actually get a pumpkin this year… bummer 🙁 . But my plan was to do a monogrammed one like YHL did last year 🙂

  359. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! This year we just got a few little pumpkins and some gourds and created a nice fall-scape on our counter. We live in a condo building so not tons of room for carving big guys.

  360. I’M CAUGHT IN YOU WEB! My pumpkins are all white and spelled the word “BOO” on them with paint.

  361. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! My pumpkins were the same as always…. pulled out of the basement and plugged in. Although, now that today is Halloween, I’m hitting Target for some clearance glitter pumpkins for next year.

  362. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I live in a condo so we keep our Halloween decorations inside. We did a cute little fall themed motif on our counter using mini pumpkins and gourds. I love that I can keep these around through November too, they are Thanksgiving-y right?

  363. I’m caught in your web!

    We haven’t done anything to the two pumpkins sitting on our front porch. Some neighborhood animal took a big bite out of the pretty side of one of them though…

  364. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Just a plain, uncut pumpkin this year 🙁 But they look great on the front porch with my corn stalks 🙂

  365. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Sadly, no pumpkins at our house, we have some mean teenagers in our neighborhood and our pumpkins always end up smashed in the street. It was sad to look up and down the neighborhood this year and see hardly any pumpkins outside. Maybe they’ll grow up and we can have pumpkins again next year!

  366. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We carved 2 jack-o-lanterns, but with all the rain we had, they rotted very quickly. 🙁

  368. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    We made Cinderella’s carriage out of a pumpkin this year…so cute!!

  369. I’m caught in your web! We just carved typical jack-o-lanterns this year. My 3 yr old daughter had tons of fun cleaning out the inside of the pumpkins! Happy Halloween!

  370. I’m Caught in your Web!!!

    My daughters (1 and 3) painted their pumpkins this year. This by far has been the best holiday-their ages are great. My husband and I carved a 4 for the number of people in our family.

  371. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    While there were so many inspirational pumpkins via blogs and pinterest, I felt pretty good that I just got plain old pumpkins for my front porch this year! 🙂

  372. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB…I actually didn’t do any pumpkin carving this year. I bought some beautiful pumpkins and they are sitting outside on my front porch.

  373. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Didn’t carve our pumpkins this year–just placed them on the porch with our gourds, mums, strawbale, and other fall plants.

  375. I’m caught in your web! We just did basic pumpkin carvings this year. The older two kids did their pumpkins by themselves for the very first time. My third child had his daddy help with carving his pumpkin and the baby did some finger painting on his (thanks to Sherry for the great idea!) No wild carvings here this year 😉

  378. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    This year we did not carve our pumpkins, so we bought ones that were all different shades of orange…oh and just to get my jack-o-lantern fill I did buy a ceramic one from lowes that had a face carved in it!

  379. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We actually didn’t do pumpkins this year, but normally we paint them. I am thinking of doing puffy paint ones for next year!

  380. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    Going to carve them tonight before trick-or-treating!

    Happy, Happy Halloween!

  381. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    We are a pumpkin painting bunch with our little 15 month old son! I hope we can do more carving next year though.

  382. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Our pumpkins are the centerpieces of our dining room table, and have spiders and cob webs strewn around them. Happy Halloween!

  383. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! – we were boring this year and did nothing to our punkins. Last year our dog murdered them in our yard (assuming they were purchased for her entertainment) so this year we played it safe and kept them uncarved. Figures.. she hasn’t touched them. :sigh:

  384. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We have a grouping of Pumpkins and spaghetti squash on our porch that we will bake/cook with later!

  385. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I carved one number of our address into each pumkin, along with an R for our last name. They look amazing at night with faux candles lit up inside! Thanks for a great giveaway!

  386. I’m Caught in Your Web!

    This year I put tiny pumpkins and gords inside inside large apothecary jars!

  387. I’m caught in your web!

    I put 2 pumpkins on our porch for a few nights before we carved them and the squirrels got to them! So I bought a few small pumpkins to decorate inside but our porch is sadly pumpkin free this year!

  388. I’m Caught in Your Web.
    We carved four pumpkins this year: one ghost with a creepy mouth (my 6 year old son), regular tiny pumpkin (3 year old daughter), Happy Halloween (12 year old niece), and vampire guy (family one).

  389. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My pumpkin this year was kind of a fail, but my husband carved a huge lumpy gourd at our friends’ pumpkin carving party. He brought his own power tools because that sucker was so tough to carve into. His gourd had a mustache and we named him Pedro. It was pretty amazing.

  390. I’m caught in your web!

    We sadly didn’t get a chance to do pumpkins this year. Life’s been crazy for the hubby and me and since we dont have little ones we usually do them “just cuz”. :O(

  391. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I had some pumpkins and dozens of tiny pumpkins/gourds spilling down the sides of the stairs to our front porch…until the squirrels got them one day while we were at work. Every stinkin’ one. They carried away the little ones and dug into the bigger ones to get the seeds. It looked like a pumpkin slaughter. 🙁

  393. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We bought a couple of pumpkins, and our new black lab thought they looked fun to play with, so they’ve got nice, decorative dog scratches all over them.

  394. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    This year we went with the vomiting pumpkins! Decorated by a few empty bottles to enhance it!

  395. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR (absolutely adorable) WEB!

    We knew we would super busy at the end of the month so we had to do our pumpkins several weeks ago. Normally I love carving, but this year we had to paint. (carving would not have made it to Halloween night). I did a cool argyle print on my pumpkin. It’s all dressed up with no where to go.

  396. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Always the procrastinator, I told my husband to bring a pumpkin or two home after work tonight! I haven’t decided quite what we will do them them, but we need something festive for the trick-or-treaters.

  398. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    It’s not very unique, but this year I drilled holes in a random pattern in our pumpkins and placed them inside 2 big black lanterns that flank our front door.

  401. I’m caught in your web!

    We had a costume/pumpkin carving party at our house this year, and everyone got extra points for carving a pumpkin that matched their costume. Since I was a zombie (and my hubby a zombie killer), I made an angry zombie pumpkin that was eating a human leg. I just carved enough space to stick an old pair of pants (with a shoe attached) in its mouth. Pretty cool!

    P.S. I LOVE your spider rug!! Totally already pinned it. 🙂

  402. i’m caught in your web! The 4 and 6 year old carved a pumpkin (with help of course!), and painted one. they are little picassos!

  403. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I love your front porch, Katie! So adorable and festive!

    My front porch currently has two pumpkins, one is a little guy that my boyfriend’s mom grew in her backyard and the other is one I carved using a stencil. It’s a witch stirring her witch’s brew. I made it to match my Halloween costume (I’m a witch, of course). 🙂

  404. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! This year’s pumpkin was caught up in our painted pumpkin fiesta! Thanks to Pinterest we were not at a loss for ideas. The best part is that we plan on hacking into the sucker after Halloween to bake up some tasty goodies (after trimming off the painted skin).

  405. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We just moved to a new state – into a little apartment – but I still wanted to do the traditional pumpkin carving. We invited a few friends over with the promise of pumpkin bread and hot apple cider and had a sweet old time. Our pumpkins look so cute sitting out on our patio and it’s one of my favorite activities to do in the fall! Thanks for hosting this giveaway – it’s awesome!

  406. “I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    Our daughter’s first birthday party is this weekend so we didn’t want to carve our pumpkins and have rotten pumpkins for her party. We opted to use our pumpkins in a fall display on the front lawn with bales of hay, corn stalks, potted mums, and some ugly bumpy spooky gourds!

  408. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I love Lowe’s, I go there all the time!

    This year I made a standard jack-o-lantern but then I started using flameless candles! It’s been great because I don’t have to worry about them blowing out and they can be reused over and over with just a flip of a switch!

  410. I’m Caught In Your Web!

    No carvings this year, just a couple of small pumpkins sitting on the porch amongst my mums 🙂

  412. I’m caught in your web! I was just excited to HAVE pumpkins this year – I just upgraded apartment from teensy-tiny to normal-tiny and got some decorative small pumpkins.

  414. I’M CAUGHT IIN YOUR WEB!

    We used our Eco friendly pumpkins that we bought a Target last year (on clearance, of course). One is made of twigs and the other is plastic with a cool carving design with a faux candle. Our friend also made us a crocheted pumpkin!

    We did let the kids decorate small pumpkins at our local grocery store. Our daughter made a rainbow pumpkin and our son made a multi colored mixed pumpkin.

  415. I’m caught in your web!

    4 pumpkins carved last night – half spooky, half, um, a few seeds short of a full jack-o-lantern. Needless to say, the kids love the ones that look like the products of an un-branching family tree (or vine, as the case may be). Just enough silly to dilute the scary for the little ones.

  416. I’m Caught In Your Web!

    The hubby & boy carved pumpkins last night & I attempted to make cookies that looked like bones, but turned out looking more like bow ties – oh well, it was worth a try.

  417. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We like to buy heirloom pumpkins and leave them uncarved for our fall/Halloween decoration!

  419. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    This year we did some simple painting. I let my boys go free on their miniature pumpkins with irridescent paint and I did some silver and orange stripes on a big one. Twas fun!

  420. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    I cut out a small mouth hole, and put those little plastic fangs in my pumpkin. So adorbs! I found the idea on pinterest.

  422. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Looks great, I love the drop cloth spider web & Webster! We won a pumpkin at our neighborhood association meeting, but haven’t carved it yet. Looks like it’ll migrate to our festive T’giving porch display….. We did do a big inflatable pumpkin with ghosts, and some blinking purple bats — Hope we get trick or treaters this year!

  423. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    The hubs and I carved Sweeney Todd this year– he carved, I directed 🙂

    Love your blog!

  424. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Sadly, I have never carved a pumpkin. But, I do have two adorable terracotta pumpkins that I put out each year!

  425. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We actually didn’t have any pumpkins this year! Which is sad, but considering we got 12 inches on snow on Saturday and everyone else’s is buried right now, we’re glad we didn’t spend too much time carving.

  426. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    I carved three pumpkins and decorated three. 3 orange carved – 1st was a cat i did for my mom, then a ghost barbershop quartet, and finally a Harry Potter themed one with a dementor looking thing flying over gravestones. Before that I decorated 3 white pumpkins – one that said trick or treat with some fun puffy paint design around it, another orange and black argyle with the little lines drawn in yellow puffy paint, and the last with a bedazzled spider web and 2 spiders! phew it was fun 🙂

  427. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    Sadly, no pumpkins for me this year… no kiddos and I am way to swamped with work. There’s always next year!

  428. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    This year we kept it simple – just some colorful painting with our 2-year-old, and 5-month-old twins!

  429. This year we let the pumpkins speak for themselves! Took the kiddos to a cute little pumpkin festival, called “Country Pumpkins”, and picked out a variety of pumpkins and gourds to spruce up the porch. In my planters that sit on either side of the front door I plopped a big flat Cinderella pumpkin (after first cutting the stems off) and topped them with unique (and kinda ugly) turban squash. It is too cute! I like them stacked on top of each other as it adds height on either side of the door and shows a variety of colors without me doing a thing! We then sprinkled regular old pumpkins and squash of different colors and sizes around the porch and in the flower pots for some height. Overall, a fun and easy look for the season! Have a Spooktacular day everyone!

  431. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Unfortunately by the time we were ready to carve pumpkins, there wasn’t one to be found in town! Good thing we don’t have kids, yet. Maybe next year we’ll be ahead of the game. Highly doubtful, though. =)

  432. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We got two pumpkins for the front porch this year, but sadly, didn’t get around to carving one this year.

  434. I’m caught in your web! Dad’s jack-o-lantern face is made up of all triangles, Mom’s is all ovals and the toddler’s is all rectangles.

  435. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!! We carved Oogie Boogie from The Night Before Christmas in our pumpkins this year!

  436. I’m caught in your web!

    This year I just carved one pumpkin. I did one chevron pattern all the way around. It looks like Charlie Brown’s shirt!

  437. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB- I spray painted my pumpkins an off white and used the frog tape-monogram trick I hijacked from Young House Love to personalize it.

  438. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB….

    I am boring. All I did was place my un-carved pumpkins in my urns on my front porch with a grapevine wreath underneath. We don’t really decorate for Halloween – we decorate more for Fall. I love your front porch makeover though. It is realllly cute and has inspired me to maybe give it a go next year. My daughter did carve a haunted house in her pumpkin though.

  439. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    We painted some pumpkins at our friends’ house in New Hampshire when we visited, and the kids each painted and decorated pumpkins at school (one for a school project). We also intended to carve and maybe even mummify a few pumpkins but the snow took us by surprise and we got too busy over the weekend to get them done. Maybe I can still mummify a pumpkin today though!

  440. I’m caught in your web!

    2 of our pumpkins are good ol’ jackolanterns. My husband got creative and, in an homage to his idol Steve Jobs, carved the Apple logo into a white one. What can I say, we’re an iFamily!

  442. I’m caught in your web, but no pumpkin for us. We’re the Halloween version of Scrooge, I suppose.

  443. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    This year we carved a haunted mansion, grim reaper, a ghost and a witch. Very fun!

  444. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I’m ashamed to admit it, but no pumpkins this year. First trimester sleepiness trumped pumpkin carving!

  445. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB” –we let our 14 month old go crazy with finger paints on our pumpkin this year.

  446. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    I went the path of al naturale/left the pumkin as is. Call me lazy if you must. I call it boosting creativity – each viewer of the pumpkin can add his/her own artistic interpretation of said pumpkin.

  447. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My hubby carved our pumpkin with a football helmet on it and I grew a bunch of smaller pumpkins and scattered them about our yard for decoration 🙂

  451. I’m caught in your web!

    I didn’t get to carve a pumpkin this year but I always do the traditional triangle eyes and nose and jagged tooth grin.

  453. I’m caught in your web! We painted a pumpkin with my 2 yr old daughter. Grandma also got her one to decorate with stickers.

  455. I’m caught in your web! We carved pumpkins, but sadly the squirrels got to them and ate their faces off!

  456. I’m caught in your web! We did two classicly scary jack-o-lanterns. We carved them last Saturday with friends, so they are starting to look a little droopy- all the scarier for tonight!

  457. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB
    I am pumpkin-less this year. I saw your “Webster” yesterday and wanted to recreate it, but could find NO pumpkins at Lowe’s or Walmart. They’ve moved on to Christmas items.

  459. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We put our little 3 month old pumpkin in a pumpkin! the pics turned out great! 😉

  460. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    We let our 2 year old loose with paint @ brushes. We have multi-colored pumpkins this year

  461. I’m caught in your web!

    This year I got a bunch of little mini pumpkins and painted them to display on my mantel. We just ran out of time to carve a big one this year.

  462. i’m caught in your web!

    I didnt do a pumpkin this year! I know that is a halloween sin but i was too busy worrying about the rest of my porch decor to bother. and it’s so hot here (SC) that we don’t do pumpkins till the last minute because they just rot in the heat.

  463. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    I procrastinated and never got a pumpkin. In the past I have made Cinderella’s coach with wheels and a mouse on top. Very cute!

  466. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We left them as is …. forgot to carve (oops) and it’s a little late now. I like them whole in their “as is” state, though!

  467. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    We didn’t carve pumpkins this year. We were lame and just arranged them with some straw, ghords and mums on the front porch. However, I did get creative on the inside of the house and made a festive curtain and wreath!

    I love your spider pumpkin. So creative!

  468. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I used my pumpkins to decorate the mantel and I love the look because it can last past Halloween.

  469. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    No carving this year. Used all sizes and shapes of pumpkins to decorate in different areas outside with gourds, flowers etc.

  472. I’m caught in your web(ster)!!
    My daughter and I carved our pumpkin with the old traditional design of triangle eyes and a pointy toothed mouth.

  473. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I went with the classic jack’o’lantern this year for pumpkin carving, but my husband carved a ninja turtle and my brother-in-law (who lives with us) carved a Ford Mustang logo. Sadly, the pumpkins already rotted, molded, and started oozing all over the front porch, so yesterday they got tossed into the landscaping trash bin. Now there are no more decorations for Halloween at our house. 🙁

  474. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Sadly we didn’t carve any pumpkins or decorate for Halloween, my hubby has been hunting and we got married a couple months ago and I was too tired from a crazy summer to decorate..

  475. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    Our pumpkin is a jack-o-lantern painted black. Should look really cool with the candles in it. I love your pumpkin spiker. So cute!!!

    Thanks for the giveaway.

    Enjoy your blog a little too much 🙂

  477. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB” We didn’t decorate any pumpkins this year, but I did buy a few small pumpkins and left them natural.

  478. I’m caught in your web! I am a total slacker and missed the boat with pumpkins this year. Do you think the neighborhood kids would throw eggs at my house if I put out a few cans of pumpkin puree on my front porch? 🙂

  479. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!! Totally spaced on getting pumpkins to carve this year! But I do have a little basket of assorted gourds on our coffee table – I think that sorta/kinda counts. =)

  480. I’m caught in your web!!

    We have a newborn so haven’t had time to do pumpkins yet…but we will definitely be making a tradition out of going to the pumpkin patch and decorating pumpkins going forward!! 🙂

  483. I’m caught in your web! We carved a pumpkin a few weeks ago, but unfortunately had to throw it out this past weekend, so that the mold didn’t scary away the kiddos on Halloween

  484. I’m caught in your web!! I cut off the top of the pumpkin and two leg holes and sat my 8 month old inside the pumpkin for some holiday pictures! I got the idea on Pinterest, and it turned out so cute!

  485. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Halloween is one of my fave holidays to decorate for, but we are in between houses right now so we just got the Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head push-in from Target for my 16 month old to decorate her pumpkins with. No mess!

  486. I’m caught in your web! With the Noreaster Autumn Snowstorm this weekend, we are just getting around to carving pumpkins TONIGHT — right before the trick or treaters! I’m sure they will be simple jack-o-lantern faces (due to the lack of time!).

    🙂 Keep up the great work, Katie Bower!

  487. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We have a 3 year old girl and a 2 year old girl. We copied John and Sherrie and taped faces on pumpkins before letting our Claire and Madeline paint them.

  488. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My boys (5 and 7) decided they’d like to try the fancy carving kits instead of just making traditional jack-o-lanterns. It was great fun – right up until they got bored 5 minutes into the process. So I spent the rest of the afternoon carving their designs myself. What we do for our kids…

  490. i’m caught in your web!

    we haven’t carved our pumpkins yet. we got busy with outside yard work over the weekend and were just too tired. but, we’re going to carve them tonight, in between handing out candy to the neighborhood. excited!

  491. I’m caught in your web!

    Shameful, but we’re waiting to the last minute and haven’t even done one yet!

  492. I’m caught in your web!
    This year I stacked my pumpkins 3 high in our two front porch urns. So each urn has a large orange pumpkin at the bottom, a medium white pumpkin in the middle, and a small orage pumpkin on top – it looks so cute and I think I’ll leave it up for Thanksgiving! 🙂

  493. I’m caught in your web!

    I’ve been super traditional since ,y daughter came along, so we did a carved pumpkin this year.

  494. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I grew my own pumpkins for the first time this year, but with all the weird weather, they all ripened early and none got big enough to carve. And I refused to spend money on pumpkins when I did actually get about 7 of my own from our garden! So, I just set them out artfully clustered around the 3 potted mums I had from last year too, all of which came back to life this year without any issues.

  495. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!! This year I went with the el natural approach. Just got 3 sizes and stacked them on my step. It works with the little amount of grass because of the Texas heat this summer!

  496. I’m caught in your web!!!!
    Just a simple jackolantern. My cutting skills aren’t the best!!

  497. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    we didn’t get around to carving a pumpkin this year 🙁 I know a crime I’m sure but we have been super busy this month and it just didn’t happen. There’s always next year! I love your spider web drop cloth by the way, I’ll have to try that out next year when I actually DO a pumpkin!!

  501. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    We made mini-vampires out of the little pumpkins. Cut a recgangular hole, shoved in vampire teeth. We got a couple of pumpkins from our patch this year, and we just put them outside. We may try to cook ’em, so we thought we’d just keep them whole. It’s a pumpkin-and-spider thing on our porch too. Though, I’m kind of in love with your rug. Might have to be making that next year!!

  502. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    I haven’t bought any decor because we are saving up for a house!- Actually, we put in counter #4 just an hour ago. BUT- we do have cans of pumpkin which I’ve made into “pumpkin pie insides” which is the best part anyways-with Cool Whip.

    PS- LOVE the sticks! So cute and will be scary when the shadows come out!

  503. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Love all your porch decor especially “Webster” and his web rug! Also, thanks for the outdoor spotlight idea, it really sets the mood. You are so clever. We will definitely be doing this next year! We are carving our pumpkins this afternoon….nothing like waiting until the last minute.

    Thanks for the chance to win & Happy Halloween!

  504. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Being a Star Trek nerd, I carved it to look like Evil Spock from the episode Mirror, Mirror

  505. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I free handed my pumpkin this year in the shape of a puppy paw with a big H in the middle for my pup Harley 🙂 I could just squish him! and my boyfriend did the manly skull. How original 😉

  506. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Unfortunately, we didn’t do anything to our pumpkin this year…he rotted about a week and a half ago. Poor Mr. Pumpkin. So much for trying to plan ahead and go to the patch early.

  507. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We did the traditional jack-o-lantern with a couple of uncarved pumpkins behind him. Thanks KB! xo

    P.S. LOVE Webster!!

  508. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB !

    My daughter doesn’t like the “yuckys” of carving pumpkins, so we opted for the Mr. Potato Head look! We picked up some silly face components and she went went to town!

  509. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I totally puffy painted my pumpkins with giant geometric shapes. Love puffy paint!

  510. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    I used a hole saw to cute polka dots into pumpkins. Once a candle was inserted into them, they made fun Halloween luminaries!

  511. I’m caught in your web!! We drilled holes in our pumpkins to give them a twinkling star feel. (And because the silly little pumpkin carving tools broke!)

  512. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB. The pumpkins are just on the porch… but I have a 3-month old, so I think I get a Halloween free-pass this year. 😉

  515. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I prefer to leave my Halloween pumpkin au naturale, but plan on monogramming a pumpkin for T-day. I’m weird like that.

  516. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    This year, my kids wanted to do one of those barfing jack o lanterns… Squinty eyes and a big, wide open mouth with all of the pumpkin guts strewn out through the opening and splattered onto the porch. It’s actually quite funny!

  517. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We hosted a pumpkin carving party this year and everyone created their own spooky face or figure. And then we roasted all of the pumpkin seeds with 4 different sets of spices on top. Yum yum yum.

  518. IM CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    we left our pumpkins alone so they can stay with us through thanksgiving too 🙂

  519. I’m caught in your web!!!! I painted white pumpkins w/ black paint: Jack & his love interest from Nightmare Before Christmas and a third one had bats & spiders on it. LOVE

  520. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We carved a Jayhawk face (we went to school at the University of Kansas)! It’s so cute!

  521. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!!

    We didn’t do any pumpkins this year…but I’m bound and determined that next time we do them, I’m going to glitter at least one. Top to bottom. And on another either paint or glue buttons on in a monogram.

  522. I’m Caught In Your Web!

    No pumpkins this year; it’s too hard with living in an apartment. However, if my wife would let me, I’d do a U of M (Michigan) pumpkin. 🙂 But I think I’d have to come up with a different design since her favorite college team is ND (Notre Dame) and we’re rivals. 😀

  523. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    We were super boring this year. My husband doesn’t like Halloween, so we’re just using the huge carving pumpkins as decorations through Thanksgiving. I did use a few pie pumpkins and cooked them!
    Jennifer B.

    jenniferlynnebeard (at) gmail (dot) com

  524. I’m caught in your web! I got a mini pumpkin that I put on a charger and surrounded with cinnamon spelling mini pine corns for a cute center piece.

  525. I’m caught in your web!
    Love your blog!
    Plan on spray painting, monogramming them this weekend.

  526. I’m caught in your web!

    We were lame this year and didn’t even get a pumpkin until this morning… now it’s just sitting on our front porch…

  527. I’m caught in your web! We didn’t do anything fancy with our pumpkins. Just regular old jack o’lanterns. Although the squirrels decided to carve my daughter’s pumpkin. I love your spider web rug!

  528. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Despite my best intentions, my pumkins remain plain. The good thing about that is I can leave them out as generic “fall” decorations rigth through Thanksgiving and then split them open and let the deer have a little early winter treat. It works for me.

  529. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    Our kids are 17, 15, and 13 and they were so busy this fall we couldn’t find a weekend when they were all free at the same time so we didn’t even buy pumpkins this year. Are you shocked we are! Instead we have a ceramic mickey jack-o-lantern.

  530. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    I carved our initials into pumpkins this year, my fiance and his son carved spooky faces. I love carving pumpkins but mostly I love toasting the seeds ; ) Happy Halloween!

  531. I’m caught in your web!

    We went with the “fallish” theme, to make the transition to Thanksgiving decos easier! Giant hay bale with a cornucopia of indian corn, gourds, and lots of piled pumpkins!! Love decorations that can last for months!

  533. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Umm…I did nothing with my pumpkins, but I have an excuse. These were the first pumpkins I have ever grown, and they looked so perfect and smooth that I wanted to leave them just as they were. Or I’m just lazy. 🙂

  534. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We carved our pumpkins…mine is a pair of owls on a spooky branch and the hubs’ is a haunted house!

  535. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    we’ve been out of town a lot this halloween season so there were no pumpkins for us this year.

  536. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    This year I spray painted a pumpkin silver to look like a spaceship, and sprayed little pumpkins to look like three eyed martians.

  537. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”
    We just did a traditional jack-o-lantern this year. Nothing fancy. We are just waiting on our closing date to get here on our first house and we were just talking about how we are going to do it big next year!! Can’t wait!

  538. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”!
    Your pumpkin spider is ingenious! We didn’t do a pumpkin this year, but I admired the ones that spelled out “google” on Google’s homepage today. 🙂

  543. “I’m Caught In Your Web”! I used one pumpkin to put the punch bowl in for my party (an idea off pinterest) and then my hubby and son carved a face into it. I carved a vampire like jack-o-lantern in the other pumpkin. Also had three mini pumpkins, one which I studded with silver thumbtacks, and the other two cut out a hole and put some of those dracula teeth in there (yes, Pinterest again) and used silver thumbtacks for the eyes. Hereare some pics:

    https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2336830094775.125472.1070545961&type=3#!/photo.php?fbid=2365162963079&set=a.2336830094775.125472.1070545961&type=3&theater

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2365162963079&set=a.2336830094775.125472.1070545961&type=3&theater#!/photo.php?fbid=2368609409238&set=a.2336830094775.125472.1070545961&type=3&theater

    Halloween has been really fun this year. I was sooo into it!

  545. I’m caught in your web! We carved a ghost. Not super creative, but since we don’t have kids right now it’s just for us anyway. We met on Halloween 6 years ago so we “celebrate” by carving a pumpin together 🙂

  546. I’m caught in your web. This year I used “funkins” and stacked them as topiaries on my front porch. The only carving I did was to two mini pumpkins that I used “puking” out some hummus and guacamole on a serving dish for a party 🙂

  547. I’m caught in your web!

    Plain and simple this year for me– a blingy Target jack-o-lantern I bought on clearance last year for like $2. Easy peasy! 🙂

  548. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB- we go for the fake pumpkins from the craft store and let the kids go crazy with glue, glitter, etc.

  550. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We carved and painted ours this year. I think we’ll stick with the painting next year….

  552. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We had two favorite pumpkins this year: my daughter used coated paper clips and jewelry pliers to make curls, spirals and shapes, and stuck them into her pumpkin all over. I cut a hole in the SIDE of my white pumpkin (not the top), gutted it, and filled it with green Jello. When it was firm, I cut “UFO alien” eyes in the opposite side, and used a flashlight shining into the hole in back to illuminate the eyes. It was perfectly eerie!

  555. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Alas, we didn’t have time to carve a pumpkin this year… just bought a “new” to us house and we are in the middle of a bathroom reno so no time for pumpkin carving. I can’t wait until we are settled and can really decorate the house next year for Halloween (and every other Holiday)!

  556. I’m caught in your web!

    We carved jack-o-lanterns and played with pumpkin guts with our 18 month old!

  557. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I let my kids draw their own pumpkin design and then do my best to carve it into their pumpkins. Love the spider pumpkin idea, though!

  562. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    I absolutely LOVE that spider. I am SO copying that next year.

    We didn’t carve any pumpkins this year… left them intact. But we made ghosts out of milk jugs and alien ghosts out of balloons and glow sticks. All courtesy of Pinterest, of course!

  563. I’m caught in your web!
    We don’t have any trick or treaters and the children are grown, so no pumpkin carving this year. Sad, I know!

  564. Thanks for the giveaway!

    ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    I took Young House Love’s idea and used painters tape to create a face and then I let my 20 month old go to town with finger paint. He loved it.

  565. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We just let the kids paint on their pumpkins this year, nothing too exciting – maybe next year!!!

  566. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I carved my pumpkin Sunday night – I did a somewhat spooky owl. Since I did it so last minute, I didn’t spend a lot of time planning…hopefully I’ll do something more exciting next year!

  569. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    Luckily I did all of the pumpkin carving and decorating pre-storm, but we made masks for our pumpkins this year out of felt, and made little bat pumpkins from Martha Stewart. I decorated our mail table and mantle. You can see them at my blog. No trick-or-treaters though, tough without power!

  570. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We do pumpkin carvings each Halloween! Each child (we have 3) get to choose their carvings and we help out. This year my 11 year old was able to do his all by himself!

  571. I’m caught in your web!

    I carved my pumpkin this year and made it Gator-ific!! I just carved out the words “Go Gators!” and added blue spray paint, since the pumpkin is already orange! I thought it turned out great!

    Thanks for the giveaway – and love the porch decorations!!

  573. I’m caught in your web! we made two jack-o-lanterns which sadly died 2 days before Halloween 🙁 but it was fun!

  574. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We decided to forgo real pumpkins this year in favor of the tackiest-slash-awesomest ceramic pumpkin from Mexico. It is equal parts terrifying (think GIANT smile and beady eyes) and lovely (has a lily motif around the sides) and childlike (the whole thing looks like it was finger-painted by a five year old). I must have boarded the ceramic creature train with you and Sherry, cuz I am strangely in love with it and I’m crazy about the fact that I can use it year after year.

    Thanks for hosting this great giveaway!

  576. I’m Caught In Your Web!

    We always carve, I’m a fan of pumpkin guts. We typically like to do a classic jack-o-lantern and then maybe one ornate design. We were not able to go all out this year due to our construction project in our kitchen, but next year IT-IS-ON!

  577. I”m caught in your web…
    we always carve our pumpkins for halloween but unfortunately they were buried under snow this year in NY 🙁

  578. I’m caught in your web!
    The Little Guy and I carved a semi classic Jack-O-Lantern face in our carving pumpkin this year. We pretty much had month long spectacular over here, so when it came to doing something with all his “lil’ baby pumpkins”, as he likes to call them, I had no energy. I guess it all works out in the end because now I can keep them around through Thanksgiving. Score 1 for laziness!
    BTW- I LOVE your porch display. That rug is an excellent idea and I think I might snag it for next year. Thanks in advance!

  579. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I LOVE carving pumpkins. I usually carve three or four. I would LOVE a Lowes gift card so that I could buy the Dremel pumpkin carving kit! I could carve ten pumpkins with that!

  580. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We’re lame. We just set out a glittery jack-o-lantern on the mantle every year. We did talk about getting a real pumpkin just to try roasting the seeds, but that didn’t happen this year.

  582. I’m caught in your web!

    I used marshmallows in my pumpkin as teeth, it turned out great, especially since a moose ate all the other pumpkins except mine on the first night we put them out! I’m convinced now that marshmallows are a moose deterrent! Maybe I’ll try putting them around my garden in the summer 🙂 jk….maybe.

  583. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    I did my usual an decorated two pumpkins with the Mr. Potato Head accessories themed in Pirate and Princess. Pretty simple but I get compliments on them from parents of trick-or-treaters year after year.

  584. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!!

    We printed off a stencil and carved a spider web in our pumpkin. Then, took some paint to it and painted the web black!

  586. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB
    this year i just bought a few small fun colored pumpkins
    and put them on my desk at work
    I love the spider pumpkin you made!

  587. I’m caught in your web!

    No pumpkins for us this year. Love all your fun Halloween ideas though; definitely saving them for next year!

  588. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We carved our newborn baby girl’s name into her first jack-o-lantern!

  590. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We traced our son’s hands as eyes on our pumpkin -it was a fun way to celebrate his 1st Halloween.

  592. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    We went a little basic this year, pile of pumpkins on the front steps.

  594. I’m caught in your web!

    My friend brought over a pumpkin to us this year (I just had a baby, so our focus has definitely not been pumpkins). She spraypainted it and then hand painted our address number on it. So cute!

  595. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB

    This year, we decided to go traditional with our pumpkins and carve regular old jack-o-lanterns. They turned out really well!

  597. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I painted our pumpkins my 19 month old daughters, Presley, favorite cartoon characters Yo Gabba Gabba! She was so happy! 🙂

  598. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB” – we carved two pumpkins this year – my husband did a simple jack-o-lantern face and I carved our daughters name into the other.

  599. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    We did 4 pumpkins of various sizes for each on of us and then spray painted our initials on each of with the use of stencils.

  600. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB. We just used an old plug-in pumpkin and put it in our big front window.

  602. I’m caught in your web!

    We had a few pumpkins with an arrangement of smaller ones and gourds. We did the traditional carvings. I free styled my pumpkin while my husband using a stencil…I think mine turned out wayyy better! 😉

  603. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! Unfortunately I was traveling over Halloween, so no pumpkin for me… 🙁 Sadness. Loved the spidey-pumpkin idea for next year though!

  604. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!
    Nothing but Jack ‘0 lanterns at our house. I did however, try a monogram pumpkin with great polkadots to throw the light all over our front steps. All my son had to say about that was “but mom, it’s supposed to have a face” Oh well. I did see a fun pumpkin with ribbon that I may need to try for Thanksgiving though!

  605. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”

    We carved a Lowly Worm face (from Busytown…we have a small child who loves those books…) and put a light stick in it to glow at night.

  607. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    My hubby and I sadly had to work this week and we missed out on everything Halloweenie, including pumpkin carving 🙁 we did have a few decorative mini pumpkins as a centerpiece on the kitchen table though!

  608. ”I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB”
    no real pumpkins for me this year (last year the squirrels burrowed their way inside and made a total mess) but in general I’m a fan of the pumpkin au naturale, simply polished and exuding it’s bold orange hue.

  609. I’m caught in your web!

    This year I used vinyl cut out in our last initial with some added polka dots. We also had out 19 month old daughter finger paint one, but that one stayed inside because we live in Portland, OR, where it never stops raining 🙂

  611. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! I have a few pumpkin decor pieces- my favs: a ceramic dish for our keys, etc in the entryway and a pumpkin fashioned out of branches. i love it!

  612. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    I painted a couple pumpkins with black ink, thinking it’d last better through the rain. Wrong! Oh well, now the painted polka dots and paisley just look faded, so it worked out anyway! 🙂

  613. I’m caught in your web!

    All we managed this year was a pair of mini pumpkins (one orange, one white) on our kitchen table.

  615. I’m Caught in your web!

    Unfortunately I live in an apartment with no outdoor space so no pumpkin for me this year. I was pretty bummed!

  616. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB!

    In addition to the very traditional looking fakes, we did a Mac logo, a flower and a kitty as our jack-o-lanterns this year.

    Love, love, LOVE your porch set up, and plan to steal a few elements for ours next year. 🙂

  617. I’M CAUGHT IN YOUR WEB! We did a standard pumpkin carving this year, with a pretty standard cut out. BUT I did use our two smaller pumpkins to make a stuffed pumpkin (which included bacon and cheese – two things that never go wrong) and the other was baked and used to make an apple butter pumpkin pie.

  618. I’m caught in your web!

    We just had regular ole pumpkins. Pretty and orange. They do have rather nice stems, though. 🙂

  619. I’m Caught In Your Web!

    We sadly didn’t carve any pumpkins this year. All that was seen was a butternut squash in our home, soon to be eaten!

    Next year. We’ll go all out. 🙂

  625. Hi there I LOVE this set-up! Just wondering how you anchored the ribbons to hang the wreaths on the other side of the door? We have cement fibre doors so that may be a challenge trying to put a nail in them.

    Cheers!

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