Pages Tagged “Pumpkin”
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- Halloween, the TL;DR Edition
Oddly quiet night here. Big change from last year when everyone seemed to be going all-out because they finally felt like they could.
- Pokemon Pumpkin Parade
We went with a Pokemon theme again for this year’s Jack-O’Lanterns.
- Pokemon Pumpkins
Patterns found online and carved by the mom-and-son team.
- Ant-Man Approves of this Jack O’Lantern
The kiddo managed to get another Halloween out of last year’s homemade Minecraft Spider Jockey costume. But it’s not easy to run around and play in, so we offered to buy him an alternate for parties, and he chose Ant-Man. Curiously, the costume didn’t come with gloves, so Katie took a pair of plain black […]
- All Pumpkin, all the Time
Now you can have pumpkin spice milk on your pumpkin cereal! Also interesting: “almond beverage” rather than “almond milk.”
- Teal Pumpkins Go Retail
Cool: Michael’s is selling plastic teal pumpkins for people who plan on offering non-food treats for allergic trick or treaters as part of the Teal Pumpkin Project. You can still paint a pumpkin teal, of course, but this simplifies the setup. (Are we really that close to Halloween already?)
- A Teal Pumpkin for Halloween
The idea behind the Teal Pumpkin Project is to offer alternate Halloween treats that aren’t candy, so that kids with severe food allergies can still go Trick-or-Treating. It started last year in Tennessee, and FARE picked it up and promoted it nationwide this year. When I was a child, I always had to either decline […]
- Grinning Jack-O-Lantern
A photo from last year’s Halloween.
- Skull Pumpkin & Vampire Halloween
Katie carved this incredible anatomically-correct skull Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween today. Update: Check the comments for her writeup on how she carved it. It seems to have worked as a “yes, we’re handing out candy” signal. Last year we didn’t get any trick-or-treaters. (We also didn’t put up any decorations that year, either.) This year, they […]
- Geeky Pumpkins of Halloweens Past
I’m not much of a pumpkin carver myself, but Katie likes to get creative. Here are some Jack-O-Lanterns she’s done, inspired by science fiction, fantasy, comics and games. From 2003… Gourdzilla! Inspired by a Grand Ave. strip earlier that week. Also, Aeryn Sun from Farscape! More about these: 2003 Halloween Madness From 2005… Puzzle Pirates’ […]
- Great Park, Great Pumpkin
The Great Park Balloon in Irvine, California, all dressed up as a Jack-o-Lantern for Halloween. I was hoping to get a shot of it aloft, but it landed as I approached the park. It looks really eerie lit up at night, floating off in the distance. Or just floating above office buildings. It’s not as […]
- Pumpkin Patch Day
Well, it’s the second Tuesday of the month. With Microsoft’s regular update cycle, that makes it Patch Tuesday. It’s also October, the month leading up to Halloween. I hereby declare today to be Pumpkin Patch Tuesday.
- Pumpkin arrrrrrrt
I love carving jack-o-lanterns. These days, though, I don’t have much motivation to do one unless there’s a prize involved. So when I saw that someone on Puzzle Pirates was holding a contest for piratey-themed pumpkin carving, I jumped on it. This is my rendition of the navigation puzzle from the game, and my first-ever […]