Carving pumpkins can be fun as a group activity, I suppose, but I always hate how messy it is and how temporary your hard work is.. the carved pumpkins tend to look wilted and sad in a matter of days. I prefer to paint my pumpkins. I unpacked my acrylics and got to painting the pumpkins we got from Roloff Farms.

Classy Argyle Pumpkin

Two sides to a Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) pumpkin:

So far I am pretty sure their only audience is the mail lady. I am hoping we get lots of trick-or-treaters for halloween… at our place in St. Louis we got zero children. Oh how we drowned our tears that first Halloween in a bag of fun sized candy bars. I need to ask a neighbor how much candy I should buy… I do NOT want to be stuck with tons of leftovers. Or worse, run out.

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