Wednesday, August 12, 2009

My Pretty Pumpkins!


Are you growing pumpkins in your backyard?



Does it look like my punkies are growing words on them??


My cousin told me that if you scrape words or designs on a pumpkin while it is still growing, the scraped parts will "heal" over and looked etched in!
Isn't that COOL?



I LOVE IT!


Here's our last name etched in a pumpkin that hasn't turned orange yet.


My daughter plucked this beauty from the garden 2 weeks ago 'cause she was so excited to have a pumpkin. Hopefully he'll last 'til Halloween!


It may be only August...
but never too early to get excited about PUMPKINS!

14 comments:

Jen~ Lipstick and Laundry said...

Your pumpkins make me SMILE... I can't wait until FALL...

Em said...

You are right! That did make me smile :) Thanks! How fun!!!!

Roxanne said...

Cute! I'm gonna try that etching thing next year!

houseofkat said...

Wow! Your pumpkins look great! I guess we waited too long this year. We usually plant mini pumpkins each year, but the last few haven't done well. Now we have these critters eating everything in sight so maybe it's a good thing we didn't plant any.

Empty Nest Full Life said...

I am wishing so much that I had planted some pumpkins, especially after seeing yours. Jackie

Michelle said...

What a GREAT idea!

Southern Fried Gal said...

Hello! Thanks for stopping over. Very cool! I can't wait to see how they look when they are bigger!

Jen said...

too fun!

Embellished Bayou said...

What a neat trick! Can't wait to see them grow!

Jill@Barnes Yard said...

Oh, fun idea!

Cheryl @ a pretty cool life. said...

What a fun idea! Thanks for sharing!

I have acorn squash, but no pumpkins. Maybe next year...

Unknown said...

Oh my goodness this just made me laugh out loud. It is a fantastic idea. So clever!fa

Empty Nest Full Life said...

The center of the flower on the cake was a fabric covered button. I went on line and typed in fabric flower tutorial, and this was one of the ones that came up. Jackie

Lemondrops Simple Stuff said...

All these fall posts! I can't wait for pumpkin season.