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Happy Halloween – Take 31
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Happy Halloween – Take 28
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Happy Halloween – Take 27
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These technically aren’t Jack-O-Lanterns, I guess, but I LOVE the creativity!
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Happy Halloween – Take 25
Happy Halloween – Take 22
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Happy Halloween – Take 21
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Happy Halloween – Take 19
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Happy Halloween – Take 17
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I love the diorama look of this one.
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This one just makes me smile. I love it.
Happy Halloween – Take 15
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I love Halloween. The creativity in the costumes and the talent and thinking outside the box on the pumpkin carving simply make me drool. Since our driveway is 650+ feet up a steep ridge line, and out away from town, we don’t have the hoards of trick or treaters we used to have. In some ways I miss it, even though one year we spent $200 on candy, not wanting to turn anyone away…
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One Halloween I’ll never forget my husband got a truly awful mask and put a pillow high on his back to make a humpback. He covered it with a big blanket. The first kids showed up and one little girl cried. My husband ripped off the mask to show her the monster wasn’t real and she agreed to forgive him, particularly since he gave her a candy bar. The word quickly spread and the whole neighborhood of kids HAD to visit ‘the house with the monster.” Our son, Brian, was scared of the ‘monster,’ too. Even when HE put the mask on and wasn’t happy until the mask went away. My husband had the time of his life that Halloween.
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I have fond memories (from went dinosaurs roamed) when we went trick or treating in groups of friends, without parents, having a blast. I went with a bunch of friends. We were gone until our sacks were bulging. We brought the candy home and my mom made us put it in the cupboard after choosing a couple of pieces to eat, doling out the rest until the end of the year.
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I always drooled over the costumes in the stores, but we never bought them. We always came up with costumes on our own, with funny hats, maybe a mask, borrowed shoes, oversized clothes, blankets, etc. It was fun to try to figure out what we could do that would be gory or funny.
I remember our family trying to carve a pumpkin one year. My parents were both only children who had never carved a pumpkin. We did the best we could, finally achieving a more or less classic look, after working ourselves to death and making a huge mess. Every year as our son grew up, I tried to carve one. I got a bit better each year, but never carved one I really thought looked good. I love seeing what really talented folks can do now.
Enjoy your celebration this year!
Happy Halloween – Carvings by Ray Villafane
And now we meet the grand master of pumpkin carving – Ray Villafane, from Queens, New York. The following examples of his work are my personal favorites – (Thanks to Emily Davis, trendingly.com)
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Happy Halloween – Take 14
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Happy Halloween – Take 5
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Happy Halloween – Take 3
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Happy Halloween – Take 2
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She can even hang her candy bag on the walker! :0)
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Happy Halloween – Take 1
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Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I could only carve the most rudimentary of jack-o-lanterns, but I love seeing what creative people are doing these days, from the very traditional to objects-d’-art.
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Needless to say, I also get a kick out of creative Halloween costumes, particularly ones that are DIY and the product of wonderful imaginations.
A hundred years ago when I was a child, we hadn’t become aware of the awful things that could happen to kids out alone at night. My friends and I went trick or treating together as a group, walking several miles to gather goodies, having the best time ever. I brought my candy home. My parents took a perfunctory look for razor blades in apples, and then tried to get me to eat only one piece – a thing that never happened.
I always wanted a costume from the store, a thing that also never happened. Usually I ended up with a mask, carried a sack, and enjoyed every minute.
As an adult, when my husband and I lived in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma in a neighborhood FULL of kids, we took our son out to houses we knew, gathered a bit of candy, came home early and went through each piece carefully, and then gave him a couple of pieces to eat. He was very young and didn’t have particularly characters in mind that he wanted to be at that point, so we did the best we could do fashion something he liked.
My husband enjoyed dressing up and giving out candy. One year, in particular, he dressed up in a scary rubber mask, a big blanket over a humpback, etc. The kids would scream bloody murder when they saw him. Then – they would tell all their friends and come back! Everyone had a blast that year, but we spent WAAAY too much for candy. (I went out twice to get more when we ran out.)
Now we live at the top of a ridgeline up a steep driveway with few close neighbors, so the trick or treating thing is only a memory. So I look online at Jack-o-Lanterns and great costumes that I’ll happily share with you.
I hope you enjoy them!
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