Greeter and Guardian: How freaks carve pumpkins.

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The Greeter before the sun went down fully, you can see the paper bag luminaries with LED candles, I wanted to do more, but I didn't want the risk of them getting stolen.

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The Guardian at his post on the table of food.

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Greeter as one would have seen him walking up the steps.

Silly boys, and thier silly pumpkins.

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The one who couldn't take it. "Phoenix Wright" Tried to carve a template pumpkin but unfortunately failed when his dragon popped out with the rest of the pieces he was trying to remove. When Perfect Timing and Phoenix went to Cici's to pick up Pizza, Batboy and I "fixed" PW's pumpkin by turning him over and carving 'xX' for eyes.The mouth just worked. We then took a pizza box (after we ate) set our victim on it, grabbed some pumpkin guts, the Bottle of Jack, Some candy Wrappers and a pizza crust and placed it all together as you see above. I decided to light him, which seems an unusual choice considering the abundance of vomiting pumpkins out there. This image is very very nice, the lighting of which aided by the neon bat behind "the one who couldn't take it". I'm glad we averted another soulless pumpkin.

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Retro Gamers pumpkin, a soulless one. A template by pumpkin masters was used here, and the lighting was augmented by our Neon cat in the background.

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Perfect Timing's pumpkin, a soulless one. Another pumpkin masters template.

A Haunting In Las Vegas

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My mother did her house up this year, and this was an off year! all the images in this post is of my mothers work, and the heritage passed down from mother to daughter as years go by.

Above is one of the candelabras my mother purchased years ago. Don't be fooled by the lack of a scale, they are about 6 foot tall and 5 feet wide. Yes, those are REAL candles.

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My mother didn't carve a Pumpkin this year, these were her substitutes.

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This is a wreath made by my grandmother, who has passed on. We display halloween items of our passed family every year, and this year Nana's wreath went up in moms house, Papa's Phantom Hat went up in mine.

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I love this picture. Just had to share it.

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The gemmy ripoff of the Flying Crank ghost. The Lighting in this picture is perfect I think. 

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Here is a neighbors house, I loved the little stakes.

Of the Halloween Sunrise

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The Halloween sunrise. I've never experienced it before but since I was up so late, I figured no time Like the present. This was the state of my cobwebs BEFORE they tried to blow down. they were so pretty in the first rays of dawn.

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The bats and my cheesecloth and sheet curtains. One can also see the faint outline of my neon bat in the window on the right.

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That's one fearless little bat.

I would suggest enjoying the Halloween sunrie with a cup of vanilla caramel tea or a Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Pre Halloween Photos

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I wanted to get some photos of my pre Halloween prep, and here are some of my favorites, above is the view from my kitchen looking at the orange haunted house night light and the purple glow of the LED lights we picked up this year in the other room. I love the contrast of the orange and purple lights with the darkness of my condo.

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My decrepit wreath. Looks like it was attacked by spiders and moths. this entire thing was made in around 30 minutes using a 3.00 bare branches wreath, a bit of bag webs, a sign which was 50% off, and a strip of shredded cheese cloth stained with a combination of tea and supremely watered down craft paint.

Just the way I like it.

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Our pumpkins. The light one (second in line) is the Greeter, and the far one (bulge at the end) is the Guardian the other two became the soulless (template carved) ones.

Pumpkins grinning in ghastly delight.

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 The greeter.

As the few T.O.T's walked up the stairs, the light of a strand of purple lights and apparently only four luminaries illuminated their way. As they made their ascent the wicked grin and insane eyes of the greeter became apparent, flanked by two more luminaries.They hesitated a moment before knocking on the door.

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The guardian.

The guests took their food under the stare of this toothy beast, who guarded the food. Keeping the devil at bay, while making sure that one did not gorge them selves to bloatation.

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 The grim gourds.

Greeter and Guardian, Sitting side by side after a long night, laughing at the two soul-less ones and the one who couldn't take it. They reminisce at the tiny bit of fun they had, and wonder if their kind will ever get their moment of glory. The creator reassures them: Next year will be the year of the pumpkin.