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deeplysad ( member #16590) posted at 7:20 AM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Wow - what an awesome talent you have!!! Really amazing art work.
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AFrayedKnot ( member #36622) posted at 12:46 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
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SurprisinglyOkay ( member #36684) posted at 1:13 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
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gahurts ( member #33699) posted at 1:23 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
That's awesome, man. You are super talented. Just. Plain. Amazing!
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Williesmom ( member #22870) posted at 1:26 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
You totally rock, Myname.
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nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 1:40 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Love it, MyName! So cool. 
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lynnm1947 ( member #15300) posted at 3:19 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
MyName, these are unbelievable. Serious talent, my friend. You COULD make a killing on those!
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LosferWords ( member #30369) posted at 4:08 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
That's just amazing. I can't imagine what that looks like in person. Looks really good from here!
Nice work, Myname. Thanks for sharing the pics of your latest masterpiece. 
lostmylight55 ( member #33517) posted at 4:14 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Myname, that's some amazing carvings. You've got some insane patience and talent. We were so inspired by your carvings we picked up 4 pumpkins to play with this year.
And broevil, your little shop of horrors plants are awesome! I would love to have those plants around the house.
Here is what I carved last year.
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little turtle ( member #15584) posted at 4:33 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
Awww Tinker Bell!!! I love it!
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jo2love ( member #31528) posted at 6:43 PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
These are awesome!
Love tinkerbell!!
Myname (original poster member #23138) posted at 12:50 AM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
Thanks guys. It makes me feel so good knowing that you all like my pumpkins. I can't tell you how many times that pumpkin almost got chucked out the window. I started wanting to throw it before I even made the first cut. 
MyName, these are unbelievable. Serious talent, my friend. You COULD make a killing on those!
I actually carved another one this year. It was for my brothers company. It was their logo, company name and slogan. (I can't post it because it's advertising and it's a local company and would give up my location). They loved it and wanted to pay me for it but I told them it wasn't necessary. So the CEO hired me to do some work at his house and then gave me a "hefty tip".
I got a lot of exposure for my landscaping company through it as well. So I was thinking that there is probably a market for that kind of thing with companies. It's something I may think about doing next year. I was also thinking of maybe doing a pumpkin for free for a company and just ask that they put a little sign saying that it was created by "Myname's Company" with my business cards. If it leads to one or two jobs it would be worth it. It may even lead to a "pumpkin carving job".
I was able to do things on this pumpkin that makes it so that if you can draw it I can probably carve it. It opens up so many possibilities.
lostmylight55, I can't carve like that at all. I hope you post some pics of whatever you carve this year.
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nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 1:02 AM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
I was also thinking of maybe doing a pumpkin for free for a company and just ask that they put a little sign saying that it was created by "Myname's Company" with my business cards. If it leads to one or two jobs it would be worth it. It may even lead to a "pumpkin carving job".
That's a really neat idea, Myname.
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Deeply Scared ( Administrator #2) posted at 5:10 AM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
lostmylight55...
Flipping cool!!!! Not only do you make MH look like an amatuer with photography...you carve pumpkins too!!! You are multi-talented!!!
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SurprisinglyOkay ( member #36684) posted at 12:32 PM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
losymylight... way cool!!
And thanks for the compliment on the plants! I love making them, and having them around the house. They're out year round
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cmego ( member #30346) posted at 1:56 PM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
Those are amazing!! There is an old fashioned candy store here that has the foam pumpkins all carved as decorations. They found a "professional" pumpkin carver to do them. She has cards displayed in the store with links to her website, where you can order a carved pumpkin...for several hundred dollars!!
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sinsof thefather ( member #29295) posted at 2:48 PM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
Wow. MyName, lostmylight and broevil you are all very talented people!
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sosorry5454rl ( member #37637) posted at 3:42 PM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
That is awesome! Our grandson would love the spiderman pumpkin. Super talented. Not sure if this is factual or not but heard if you dip the carved pumpkins in bleach it preserves then and they last longer... again not sure just heard that last week.
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lostmylight55 ( member #33517) posted at 5:04 PM on Thursday, October 24th, 2013
Thanks for the kind words. I've carved foam, sculpted with clay and have done molds and castings before but that was my first attempt at working with a pumpkin like that. It's a lot harder and messier than I thought it would be.
Here's a site showing some incredible pumpkin sculpting.
http://www.pumpispumping.com/2010/10/amazing-jack-o-lantern-pumpkin-carvings/
The guy that created them is Ray Villafane. I can't post his actual site on here because he's selling stuff too. But he has some unbelievable work.
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