Thanks! There are some incredibly talented people here in this family! I'm really hoping to get some prop ideas that I can use to spruce up my pumpkin display. Right now, I have a few fake skeletons and stuff, but really, I've given virtually no thought there. To date, I've really only given consideration to how best to display my pumpkins. Here's the front of my house from last year (left to right, and then right to left - its at the top of a hill on a corner, so it has a nice display area):







I'll never get anywhere close to some of the absolutely fantastic haunts and cemetery displays here with all these customized props, but hopefully I can find some ways to but better Halloween surroundings to the pumpkins. I think I can do a better job of perhaps hiding skeletons behind them and stuff, and perhaps might come up with some more interesting things to prop the pumpkins up. Right now I just put them on stands and so forth.

But if you guys have any ideas on how a VERY novice prop maker might "Holloweeni-cise" this pumpkin display, I'd LOVE to hear any and all of them!

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wow, fantastic display. that is as flashy as the light parade at christmas. [forget i said christmas]

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Wow! Those are incredible!

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Wow! And I thought I was mad about carving pumpkins! Welcome sfam! I could use tips from you! hahaha On average I carve 6 pumpkins for the front of my house. Last year I did Shaun of the Dead, XBox start button, King Leonidas from 300, and Oogie Boogie from NmBC. LOVE LOVE LOVE your work!!

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Great stuff! I LOVE your Shawn of the Dead one! I find that pumpkin carving is an obsession that just gets worse each year - I'm guessing you do as well.

The Cut-through pumpkins really give a lot of cool options. I like to stick stuff in them, and use multi-color lights, which show up lots better on the cut-throughs than they do the grays scale. I did a whole bunch of Pirates of the Carribean pumpkins a few years ago - here's one I did of Davy Jones, with light-brite type inserts to highlight his barnicles and a multi-colored light inside:

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Thanks! I definitely get a kick out of it - although I do go a tad overboard. I'm flat out exhausted by the time showtime comes.

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