What should my last carved pumpkin be?

A skeleton would be awesome.

Also… I carved pumpkins in college. You’ll figure it out if it’s something you want to do!

A skull with fangs grinning?
(but really clowns are damn scary)

A penis.

Pennywise is the only clown I like.
If you can do it and make it look awesome, I’d say go for him.

I hope it won’t be your last, maybe you will have kids some day and enjoying carving pumpkins with them!! And I love your idea about Pennywise, sometimes ya gotta go with your gut feeling.

Go grab a larger
pumpkin and carve it into a monster eating smaller pumpkins. I’ll post y
photos of y
pumpkins sometime soon.

@cbloom8 Nah, it won’t be your last. Think of all the cool jack-o-lanterns you’ll carve with your kids. :-)

PS – It definitely won’t be the last, but it might be the last for a year or two.

My vote is for Pennywise. My favorite clown, although I like all scary clowns. The scarier, the better.

Why would this be your last pumpkin? We had pumpkin-carving parties every year in college, and it’s still a fun activity for a date later in life. I carved Jack (from Nightmare Before Christmas) into my pumpkin for this year, and he looks awesome. It was an easy pattern to sketch out myself, too.

Last?

Once I was out of school and had my own little place, I started buying my own pumpkin and carving it every year. That first year, I taught my landlord’s little kids how. Much later I would buy three, one each for my two children and me to carve. The last most recent time I did this was last year. My kids are in their twenties now, and a couple of days ago one of my sons brought home three pumpkins.

I consider myself at least a decade away from my last pumpkin.

@wildpotato That pumpkin is ADORABLE!!!

@fireinthepriory Thanks! He was fun to carve. I’ll post one of him lit up tonight when I get home.

Edit: Here we go – Capt_Bloth already put a pic up. The other also extremely awesome pumpkin is his.

~How about carving a chupacabra?

@wildpotato AWWWWWW seriously that is just the cutest fuckin thing!! Ok, you and the Cap’t have got me inspired. I have got to go make me a pumpkin in the very near future…

If you have a picture I can get it usable as a stencil for you.

I’d want to get abstract with it.
Perhaps I’ll carve a thin horizontal slice at about ⅓ down the pumpkin and call it the Cylon pumpkin.

Frank, from Donnie Darko.

@wildpotato Those are awesome pumpkins. This year, I think I’m going to try my hand at a swirly pattern, rather than a face. Not scary, but still cool.

@cbloom8: The one you do when you are 90.

I am old-fashioned enough to think that a Hallowe’en pumpkin should be a jack-o’lantern, meaning that it has a face. I usually try for scary myself. Being scared by things on Hallowe’en is part of the great fun of it.

@ccrow Frank would be pretty hard to carve..

@ccrow GA! Here‘s a template I found for Frank. It does look hard, but it would be totally worth it.

@augustlan Thank you!

Inside out Jack-o-lantern. Get a huge candle and then put a little pumpkin in it.

Oh, the kid’s pumpkins will most likely have faces. Though one year, one of them wanted a cat & a crescent moon. It turned out pretty well.

Get three pumpkins for this one

Last year I did Groucho Marx. Total success.

An evil Dr. J, the nastiest of jellyfish, of course.

This site has some really cool ideas.

@brinibear cool :0 )

@augustlan those are some pretty awsome carvings

One of our own jellyfish does these.

@breedmitch Those are freakin’ awesome! Which jelly is involved with that fantastic idea?

Wouldn’t that be outing someone?

@Jeruba Hrm. Good point. I retract my question.

I don’t mind.
marcismyhero
He’s a good friend. But he doesn’t fluther much anymore.

Yes, but would he mind? I hope he’s too busy carving those great pumpkins to Fluther!

Hey everyone, check out this website. Downloadable free patterns (I hesitated to fill out his order form because it didn’t involve buying anything, but I never received an email from him after unchecking the box, and no one’s stolen my fake identity so far. It’s a real .pdf file, and full of awesome tips. The guy seems legit), and good tips on pumpkin preservation. I just tried the Clorox with bleach trick on the ones I carved with my cousins today; will give updates on how it works out.