This week, I fell in love… with a sea green squash and some tiny pumpkins.
Now you can probably guess my general tiredness (and sanity) levels lately… by the fact that I went to buy lunch and came back with a ‘slightly (ok, very) more expensive than a pumpkin’ squash. Yes, I was vaguely delirious about the whole purchase – in the way you should only ever be about an expensive pair of shoes or a new camera (please feel free to insert your own item there).
Even carrying it home (it’s not exactly light) didn’t deter me from my new-found obsession…
Thing is… I couldn’t bring myself to carve it! Yes, you know you’ve reached a new level of weirdo when you (a) buy a funny looking squash to carve up and then (b) get too emotionally attached to said squash to actually carve it!
I mean really it’s the perfect shade of Where The Wild Things Are green! It just seemed mean to do anything to it. Ahem…
Thankfully, we’d bought some pumpkins that I could carve (though does anyone else feel that emptying out pumpkins feels serial killer dark?!) We do take the carving quite seriously – see on the table behind me? There’s a mallet, a power drill, hacksaw etc. Um, yes, that might explain why it seems so dark!
As well as getting some normal sized pumpkins (and the squash), we also picked up some munchkin pumpkins… possibly the best thing ever (second to the squash of course). Now they’re quite teeny for carving…
But oh boy are they brilliant! Carve out the middle, stick in a pair of vampire teeth (10p from Asda!), then simply poke two holes in for the eyes (I put the ends of match sticks in so they had a bit more definition here). So easy and how much fun do they do look? Love them!
So this is our entire pumpkin (and squash) family… a rather handsome set even if I do say so!
(Um, yeah, this mask has nothing to do with this post… but hey, it’s here anyway. Just in case, you need a small break from pumpkin shaped objects!)
And oh yes, the dinos… well, that meant we had to have a dino carved into a pumpkin right?
Stegosaurus pumpkin meets plastic Stegosaurus…
And oh yeah a Polaroid pumpkin… mainly as this seemed an easier shape than carving another dinosaur!
Oh and a New York skyline – partly as it gave me an excuse to use the drill to do all those windows!
Does anyone else see that the Polaroid totally has a face?!
Ok, this is pretty much the same picture as before – but how cool are the pocket-sized pumpkins? If I had a free day/weekend soon, I would so want to take these guys round town and do a mini photo shoot. (See the soliders/Easter chicks post for what happens to my brain during a ‘holiday’!)
And just because… doesn’t the munchkin pumpkin make a good Wild Thing?!
I hope you all a lovely/scary/spooky Halloween! (As some of you probably know, Halloween is also pretty much my birthday so I’m taking some time out to do some celebrating/chilling/costuming!)
See you all in November xx (Arrgh! Now that is terrifying!)
Tiny pumpkins!!! I NEED these! Love it Zoe (also do you know your jumper matches your pumpkin, you probably do!)
Also happy birthday/halloween for when it comes!! x
Thanks Helen 🙂 The jumper matchy-ness was unintentional but maybe my subconscious knew! x
Must get munchkin pumpkins!! And teeth!! Mwah ha ha :E (that’s a vamp teeth smile just for you!) Happy birthoween lady! x
Ha ha Kirsty, love the vampire teeth smiley! x
Your flat is soo pretty – that wallpaper is amazaling! Also yes to Polaroid face!! Happy hallobirthday gorgeous xx
Aww thanks Rachael 🙂 x
I LOVE the tiny pumpkins! And, yes, there’s totally a face in the Polaroid.
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Yes there is! Funny how these things turn out isn’t it? Spooky even? 😉 x
Two favourite pumpkin things this morning: http://t.co/bkadEGx9 and vampire munchkins: http://t.co/ePZPzT1T
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Baby vampire pumpkins, these are so adorbs!! Love your mini Halloween!
Thanks Abbi 🙂 Yeah I’m rather fond of them!
I think pumpkins and squashes are essential for Birthowe’entime.
The dinosaur is my favourite – RRaaarhh!
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Yes they are LM! 🙂 Yay for the dino one – it was hardest to do!! (Never again!) x
So much cuteness 😀 I’m definitely going to try making the ickle vampire pumpkins! Aldo you use a drill on your pumpkins?!
Happy birthday for when it comes! 🙂
Ooh do send me a pic if you do – would be fab to see them Jo 🙂 (Also yes to the drill… it’s so much fun, I promise!) x
Great pumpkins!
wow Zoe! U are some kinda pumpkin carving expert! And I LOVE munchkins, keep *nearly* buying them in waitrose!
Munchkin vampire pumpkins? Possibly the cutest thing ever!
Dinosaur pumpkin design… We think that’s a pretty inspired choice for a seasonal veg…
oh I wouldn’t be able to carve that green one either! But the others are absolutely SPLENDID! I am totally getting vampire teeth to do the same with my £2 co-op pumpkin!!!
You’re too artistic for your own good, you know that, don’t you?!
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Oh cool Alison 🙂 (Splendid is such a good word!) And ha ha, well, I’m not so sure about that… too impatient for my own good definitely! 😉
Ahhh your pumpkins are AMAZEING! Have a happy Halloween lady! xx
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Thanks my dear! 🙂 xx
What a squash! Yes I can see why you’d not want to harm it! Love the little pumpkins too 🙂 Happy halloween birthday x
LOVE this all!!! Tiny pumpkins are so cute! Big ones are fabby too. Happy Halloween Birthday 🙂
I’m absolutely loving your attention to pumpkin detail! I have one sitting on my table that I’m going to chop in four then roast – lame!
x
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Aww these are awesome!!!!!!
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these are so fun and amazing!! I looooove the polaroid one (of course lol) but the teeth ones are my favourite, what a clever idea 🙂
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LOVE the smiley polaroid pumpkin, and the skyline is beautiful, and the munchkins are adorable, and that squash is gorgeous! I think you might have gone a bit pumpkin crazy though!
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These are amazing, I am definitely going to be on the look out for some fangs next year. I have some mini pumpkins too, just knocking around looking cute on my mantlepiece. Unfortunately I left it too late to buy a big pumpkin for the kids so I had to improvise with two large oranges. Worked pretty well! I’d love you to link up this post to my Halloween link up (belated ta-dah Tuesday has become woooo Wednesday!)
x
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[…] manage to hunt down this gorgeous green squash though and immediately snapped it up (inspired by Zoe’s love for a similar squash earlier in the week). My boyfriend and I have different approaches to pumpkin carving so after […]
Happy birthday! Love that squash, and the vampire teeth are hilarious! x
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Happy belated birthday wishes from me! Once again, your post made me smile. Hope you’re feeling a bit better?
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Catching up on blog reading, scrolling down through your post and just burst out laughing at the munchkin pumpkins with the teeth. Love it! Thank you for making this grey post-Hallowe’en day much brighter!
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I like the smiley polaroid camera. I think we need to get more into halloween in this house. Maybe next year (like I say every year)
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