OH! My paper mach pumpkin is looking so awesome can't wait till it is done.

I have cut the face.  And put on the clay to add more detail.  After it drys I will start the paint process.  It looks so "spooky"

My paper mach pumpkin progress

My pumpkin now has a spooky stem.  I have put five layers of paper mach and one layer of paper mach on the stem (not shown).  Today I got some paper mach clay at Michaels so if the stem is dry I will add some character to my pumpkin by cutting out a face and applying the clay.  I am so excited for the end result it is killing me that you have to be patient with this kind of project.

Oh How I Love Halloween!!

I can't wait till Halloween!   

I am working on my decorations right now...  

Come back later to see... 

:)

      

OK I will give you a sneak peak on one project...

Paper Mach pumpkin.  I have never done this before.  Hope it turns out.  

Happy Halloween Decorating 

The only Pumpkin I could grow

 I grew pumpkins last year and I only got two.  I thought this year would be different.  New place and the weather is different.  But no.  I got this big vine to grow.  It stretches about twenty feet from the garden box.  

You can see that I have a few small pumpkins.  They are about the size of a grapefruit.  I have one the size of a basketball.  That is the only one.  I have had about twenty possible grapefruit size but they get to grapefruit size than stop growing and die.  I give up I can't grow pumpkins.  

Well we will be someplace different next fall maybe I can try again.

My Garden Halloween Carved Pumpkin

This is my pumpkin that I grew in my garden.

I used my dremel and carved BOO! into it.

This is the dark look.

This is the lighter look out side.

This is my purchased pumpkin.  I did this one the old fashioned way.  I love caving pumpkins.  I still have one more pumpkin in my garden.  He is small and still green.  But hey I had success I got two pumpkins.  Yeah!

Pumpkin number two!

The pumpkin Gods must be smiling on me.  I now have a second pumpkin.  He is small and is growing very slowly but he is growing. 

This is my first pumpkin.  I am not sure he will turn orange by monday, here is hoping.  If you does not I will still cut him off and carve him.  He will just be green.  So maybe he will have to be a frankenstein, or green witch.   I resorted to buying a pumpkin a couple of weeks ago, before my first pumpkin started to grow.  I will have to carve that one too.  As for the second growing pumpkin he will not be ready but I will get to have a fresh pumpking for thanksgiving decoration.  Hoorah!

Haunted tree decoration -pumpkin update.

This year I made these cute Halloween ornaments.  I decorated the entry way table with the haunted tree.  Hopefully the kids will leave it alone.

 I have a candy corn, mummy, ghost, vampire, Frankenstein, cat, bat, pumpkin and two witches.  They turned out so cute.  I can't wait to do the Thanksgiving and Christmas ones too.

The patterns for these ornaments, I got from Happy Hollow Design. You can also get the pattern for the skinny witch to the left of the haunted tree from Happy Hollow Designs.   If you are familiar with fusible quick grids you will like these patterns. 

The table runner I believe came out of a Fons & Porter magazine.  I don't remember what year.  Within the last five years I think.

This is my only pumpkin.  I was pleased to get at least one.  I was not sure I would get any this year.  The Texas drought has been hard on the crops here.

Happy Halloween.

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We got one!

After watching for weeks and being disappointed when a pumpkin would wither away and die. (No Pollination). I had to take matters into my own hands. May I present my first pumpkin. It is 4" x 41/2".

I also pollinated this one two.

This little guy in next.  When the blossom opens up I will play match maker again. 

I can't wait to see what size they get.  I am sure they will last till November now. Yipee!

OH My lovely Pumpkin!

Look at my lovely pumpkin.  The first 6 pumpkins died in the heat.  Now that the weather is turning cooler a pumpkin that shows promise is growing.  It is the size of a quarter at best.  I am seeing other new pumpkins so I will hold at hope to get six or seven this year.  Hooray!!!!!!

It is getting dark out and the weather is so much more beautiful with a pumpkin growing.  Fall is coming. And it rained last night Yeah!

we have pumpkins!!!!!!!

Can you see my pumpkins.  I have two.  I had three but it is not going to make it, the little guy fell off.

I am so excited.  Now I have to be watering more than once a day.  Our hundred degree temperature will not take away my babies.  I hope I get more.  This is so excited.

no pumpkins on my pumpkin vine and a midnight guest

To start these little creatures live around our house.  I found these at midnight on the wall by my front door.  I found four. I made my family crazy yesterday when I told them that a smaller lizard ran under my bed.  They do not believe me but no joke I have one in my room.  I am not sure how it go in there but well it is there none the less.

And here is the updated pictures of my pumpkin plants.  I am not seeing any pumpkins yet.  but you can tell it is getting bigger.

Well I have to say I had a better picture of this but when  I went to turn it clockwise it hid the picture and now I can see it in the slide show, but I can not edit or use it.  This really sucks.  I also had a good picture of the fourth lizard on a different wall last night it is also hidden.  Does anyone know how to get it back?  I can't figure it out.

So what are ya doing?  "Just hanging around."  That is what I can imagine they are saying to each other.

August Pumpkin plant update

This is my pumpkin plants.  Even though it is hot they seem to be doing OK.  No Pumpkins yet but I am hopeful.

I did plant some more of the giant Max pumpkins because they died.

But now I have a problem something is eating the leaves.  I have fire ants that have taken up residence.  I put stuff down on the mound to get then to go away.

The rain that we got yesterday in Texas has perked up my plant.  The leaves are standing tall.  I cant wait.  I need pumpkins.  Go baby make momma proud.

Help! My pumpkins are suffering

Wow I am sure that you have seen the news on how the heat wave is causing a problem.  Well it is causing my pumpkin plants to burn.

 This plant is my best and is not what I would expect of it for the time it has been in the ground.

 This plant is my next biggest and it is not doing any better.

This one is the last of my surviving pumpkin plants.  Sad huh? I water everyday.  Sometimes twice.  I am not sure they are going to produce any actual pumpkins.  I have lots of buds and well nothing.  Help me?! any helpful advise would be great.  I can only hope that the Texas heat wave will pass and the rain will come and save my plants.

Summer kraziness

I am so sorry I have not blogged that much this summer.  I have been working on lots of things.  However I don't know how interesting they might be.  I have three major things I am doing:

 I built this garden box.  I planted pumpkins and they sat in my window sill until this box was finished.

 They finally are in the ground.

I built a garden box to grow pumpkins for my kids for Halloween.  I am so excited. I hope to update my growth on this blog.  It has been two weeks since I put them in the ground and they are not dead.  Wish me luck!

Next I am working with the local paper in my area developing coupon workshops.  I am really excited about this.

And last I have a lot a genealogy to retype.  I lost all my stuff on my old computer when it crashed.  Over 3000 names. Yikes!  My fingers are going to be tired.  At least I have most of it on hard copies.  I need to have family names ready for my teenager to do baptisms in Sept when the youth go to the Houston Temple.

Hope you are having a good summer so far. Stay cool!