Pumpkin carving is what you make of it. It's a fun (family) activity that helps you get into the Halloween spirit and is a great way to express your creativity, too.

The best thing about it is the freedom: you can go for something playful like your favorite meme, or a scary zombie, it's all up to you.

To give you a better idea of what's possible, we at Bored Panda compiled a list of our favorite jack-o'-lanterns. Enjoy!

#1 Luigi's Mansion Pumpkin

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#2 My Friend Is Awesome At Carving Pumpkins

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#3 Someone Got The Pumpkins Right

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#4 I Carved A Pumpkin

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#5 My Husband's Pumpkin Carving

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#6 My Wife Won Her Office Pumpkin Decorating Contest After 5 Years Of Disappointment

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#7 My Friend Carves The Best Pumpkins, Half Of My Halloween Excitement Is Waiting To See What He's Come Up With, Here Is This Year's

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#8 I Just Finished My Pumpkin Carving. "The Mad Titan, Thanos"

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#9 My Sister Carved A Pumpkin Again

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#10 Darling, It Will Be Bold. Dramatic

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#11 Smashing Pumpkins

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#12 My Pumpkin Scares The Hell Out Of Me

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#13 My 2014 Pumpkins: Harry vs. Voldemort

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#14 My Pumpkin Carving This Year

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#15 Just Finished Decorating Our Annual Scary Pumpkin

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#16 Gandalf vs. Balrog Pumpkin Carving "You Shall Not Paaaasss"

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#17 So My Friend Won A Pumpkin Carving Contest With This

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#18 I Present The Trumpkin, 16 Hours, 56lbs, Three Pumpkins

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#19 The Perfect Jack O'Lantern Doesn't Exist...

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#20 My 16-Year-Old Niece’s Halloween Pumpkin Carving

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#21 Peter Peter The Pumpkin Eater

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#22 I Carved It From Pumpkins

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#23 I Work In An Animation Studio With Some Of The Best Artists I’ve Ever Met And This Is The Pumpkin That Won Our Carving Contest Yesterday

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#24 I Carved This For Halloween. Expecto Pumpkin

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#25 I’ve Outdone Myself This Year

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#26 I Carved The Scariest Pumpkin I Could Imagine

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#27 My Pumpkins For Halloween This Year

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#28 I Carved A Dog-O-Lantern

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#29 My Wife’s Contribution For The Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

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#30 Unbelievable Viking Pumpkin

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#31 The Collector

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#32 Anglerfish Pumpkin

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#33 My Aunt Had A Pumpkin Contest At Work. Safe To Say She Won

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#34 My Little Sister's First Attempt At Pumpkin Carving. Her Talent Makes Me Sick Sometimes

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#35 Tonight, I Carved A Pumpkin. I Also Doused It In Lighter Fluid And Lit It On Fire

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#36 Proud Of My Submission For The Office Pumpkin Decorating Contest Today

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#37 Is My Rick And Morty Pumpkin Worthy Of Your Praise?

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#38 We Still Have This Small Pumpkin My Wife Carved 3 Years Ago

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#39 Am I Spooky Yet?

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#40 Pumpkin Carving Success

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#41 No One Even Notice My Pumpkin Last Night

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#42 For My Birthday, I Wanted To Show You Guys My Pumpkin

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#43 My Work Friend Carved This In Our Annual Work Pumpkin Carving Contest, It Was His First Pumpkin And It Took Him 10 Hours

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#44 We Made This For A Pumpkin Decorating Contest At Work

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#45 This Welding Pumpkin

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#46 It’s Pumpkin Carving Season

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#47 Entry For My Work's Pumpkin Decorating Contest

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#48 I Carved A Pumpkin To Sum Up 2020

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#49 I Carved My First Pumpkin. His Name Is Murphy And I’m Obsessed With Him

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#50 Pumpkin Graveyard

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#51 When You Don't Know What To Carve - Star Wars

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#52 BF Carved A Galaxy Pumpkin

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#53 Johnny Depp Pumpkin

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#54 The Rosetta Stone Carved Into A Pumpkin

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#55 My Friend Just Posted This Pumpkin Carving On Facebook

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#56 One Of The Cooler Pumpkins Carvings I’ve Seen

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#57 My First Time Carving A Pumpkin In Years. Love The End Result

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#58 Second Attempt At Pumpkin Carving

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#59 My Girlfriend Had A Pumpkin Carving Contest At Work

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#60 My Wife's First Attempt At Painting Pumpkins. They Came Out Ok

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#61 A Few Cool Pumpkins From A Carving Contest In My Community

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#62 My Buddy's Jack O'Lantern This Year

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#63 If You Pick Your Pumpkins Right, They Turn Into Shrunken Heads In The Las Vegas Heat. Ready For October

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#64 My Jack O'Lantern Turned Out Pretty Good

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#65 My 2020 Pumpkin Carving, "Pennywise... The Dancing Clown!"

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#66 These Handmade Pumpkin Carvings

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#67 These "Up" Pumpkins

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#68 A Pumpkin Carved Into A Pumpkin

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#69 My Attempt At Fulfilling My Daughter's Request For An Anglerfish Pumpkin

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#70 Finished My 2017 Halloween Pumpkin

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#71 That’s No Moon

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#72 When You Putin A Lot Of Effort Into Carving

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#73 Pumpkin Carving Went Plus Ultra This Year

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#74 Really Surprised How Well My Pumpkin Carving Turned Out

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#75 I Think I've Found My Calling. Here's Pumpkin Attempt #3

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#76 The Second Time Carving Maleficent. This Time The Angelina Jolie Version

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#77 First Pumpkin Of The Year And He Unintentionally Ended Up Looking A Bit Like Mike Wachowski From "Monsters, Inc."

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#78 My Girlfriend Made This "Demogourdgon" Pumpkin For The Office Pumpkin Contest And Won 1st Place

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#79 Rawr

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#80 Pumpkins That Were Grown In A Mould

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#81 "Predator" - A Carving On A Tremendous 257 Kg Pumpkin

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#82 My Friend's Dad Is A Dentist. This Is His Pumpkin For Halloween

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#83 I Made A "The Thing" Pumpkin. It Only Took An Unreasonable Amount Of Time

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#84 My First Pumpkin Of The Year. Wednesday Addams Giving Some Epic Side-Eye

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#85 One Of The Scariest Pumpkins I've Seen Yet

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#86 I Painted A Dutch Pottery Style Pumpkin

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#87 So It Turns Out That Leaving A Jack O'Lantern Next To A Tree Where Squirrels Can Eat Away Its Face Results In The Most Terrifying Pumpkin Ever

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#88 "And Then He Greeted Death As An Old Friend, And Went With Him Gladly, And, Equals, They Departed This Life.” The Tale Of The Three Brothers, Both Pumpkins Together

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#89 I Call This “Here Comes The Sloth”

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#90 It's Friday Tomorrow Witches. Took Me Forever To Carve This

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#91 Minion Lovers, This Should Officially Be The Best Jack O'Lantern Ever

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#92 First Time Carving A Pumpkin & I’m 22. Dropped The Little Pumpkin But The Crack Makes It Better

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#93 My Brothers Yearly Pumpkin

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#94 Halloween Pumpkin Carving

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#95 You Guys Enjoyed My Wife's Pumpkins Last Year. Here Is The 2017 Edition

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#96 Six Hours Later, My First Try At Surface Carving A Pumpkin

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#97 Breaking Bad Pumpkin

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#98 My Girlfriend's Submission For The Office Pumpkin Carving Contest

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#99 Zombie Pumpkin. This One Was Tough, But Love How It Turned Out

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#100 Graveyard Pumpkin Diorama

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#101 My GF Carved This Last Night. Don't Think A Lot Of People Will Recognize It But I'm Sure It'll Be Appreciated Here

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#102 My Girlfriend Entered A Pumpkin Contest. Win Or Lose, I Say She Nailed It

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#103 This Pumpkin Gave Me Nightmares Last Night And I Made The Damn Thing

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#104 My Contribution To The Keene Pumpkin Festival

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#105 My Dad Carved The Best Pumpkin And I Thought It Needs To Be Shared Somehow

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#106 My 3-Year-Old Son Wanted Me To Make Him A "Scary Pumpkin". Pretty Happy With How It Came Out

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#107 It's Not Much, But I'm Kinda Proud Of My Bob's Burgers Jack O'Lanterns

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#108 I Stepped Up My Pumpkin Sculpting Game With A Bigger Pumpkin Today

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#109 Pumpktris

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#110 My Pumpkin Don't Feel So Good

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#111 The Scariest Idea I Could Think Of For A Spooky Pumpkin

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#112 Ready For The Office Pumpkin Contest (This Time With The Candle)

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#113 I Carved Geralt Onto A Pumpkin This Year

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#114 Happy Halloween. Charon Pumpkin Carving

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#115 My Friend Carved These Hocus Pocus Pumpkins And Put Glow Sticks In Them So They Glow Different Colors

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#116 Blazing Pumpkins

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#117 My Entry For The Office Pumpkin Contest. Donald Trumpkin

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#118 Very Proud Of My Pumpkin This Year

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#119 This Pumpkin That I Carved Yesterday

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#120 My Pumpkin Carving Might Be Recognizable To Some Of You

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#121 Found Some Candles. Here's My Steve Buscemi Pumpkin. Did I Capture His Eyes?

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#122 I Carved A Pumpkin Today

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#123 A Bit Better With The Lights On

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#124 My 9-Year-Old Daughter’s Idea: Human Spice Latte

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#125 The Pumpkin My Dad Submitted To His Office Pumpkin Contest A Couple Years Ago

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#126 My First Pumpkin Carving. A Tiger Jack O'Lantern

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#127 Kills 99.9% Of Hopes And Dreams

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#128 I Carved A BB8 Pumpkin. This Is Him Now

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#129 Since Everybody Else Is Doing One

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#130 Not An Artist By Any Means But I'm Pretty Proud Of My Pumpkin This Year

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#131 Member Pumpkins Again?

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#132 My First Attempt At A 3D Pumpkin Carving, How'd I Do?

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#133 Pumpkin Eye Ballz

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#134 Why So Serious?

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#135 I Know You Guys Have Seen A Lot Of Jack O'Lanterns Lately, But Here's My Buddy's From Last Night

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#136 Since 2012 I’ve Been Making My Pumpkins A Bit Differently

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#137 This Little Pumpkin I Carved

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#138 I Carved This Pumking. What Do Yall Think?

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#139 Expecto Pumptronus. A Harry Potter-Themed Jack O'Lantern

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#140 Terrifying. An Entry Into The Neighborhood Pumpkin Carving Contest

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#141 Pumpkin Parasite In Action

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#142 Family Pumpkin Carving Got A Little Competitive

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#143 My Minion Pumpkin

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#144 I Decided To Carve A Pumpkin

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#145 I Carved A Pumpkin This Weekend

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#146 My Dad Just Lasered This Onto A Pumpkin

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#147 I Work In A Call Center For Customer Service, And Our Department Entered This Pumpkin Into The Contest That Was Held For Halloween. We Won

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#148 This Is My Entry To The 2018 Blizzard Pumpkin Contest, Not Quite How I Imagined But I'm Still Proud

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#149 Big Green Keg Pumpkin DIY

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#150 Really Happy With My Pumpkin This Year

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#151 My Friend Carved The Scariest Thing He Could Imagine Into His Pumpkin This Year

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#152 Found This Weird Double Pumpkin And Had To Do It

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#153 My Submission To The GW2 Pumpkin Carving Contest

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#154 Giant Smiler

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#155 My Wife Was Not Thrilled With My Pumpkin Carving This Year

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#156 I Did Not Win The Company Pumpkin Carving Contest

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#157 Finished Carving A Totoro Pumpkin Just In Time For Halloween

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#158 My Giant Cheshire Cat Pumpkin. I’m Frazzled From How Much Energy It Took To Move That Monster

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#159 My Pumpkin Contest Entry

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#160 Thought I'd Share This Halloween Pumpkin Decoration Of Bob Ross From Work

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#161 Pumpkin I Carved Of My Fiancée And I For Our Wedding

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#162 Girlfriend’s Pumpkin Blew Me Away

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#163 I Carved A Truth Pumpkin. Happy Halloween Everyone

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#164 This Carved Pumpkin

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#165 My Girlfriend Made This Amazing Pumpkin For Halloween

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#166 My Attempt At A Minecraft Jack O'Lantern

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#167 My Team's Entry Into Our Company's Annual Pumpkin Decorating Contest

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#168 I Carved A Pumpkin

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#169 My Son Wanted A Thomas The Train Pumpkin For Halloween. I May Have Gone Overboard

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#170 Happy Halloween. Our Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest Brings Out The Creativity In Our Team Members

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#171 I Carved A Few Pumpkins

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#172 My Little Shop Of Horrors Decorated Pumpkin 2017

There is a pumpkin in the lower plant with no hand. No puncture or carving allowed. All handmade. Tell me what you think!

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#173 My Barber's Angler Fish Pumpkin

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#174 No One At The Carving Party Knew Who These Guys Were - But I Bet You Guys Will

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#175 Found At My Works Pumpkin Decoration Contest

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#176 My Pumpkin For This Year's Contest. Holy Hot Glue Sticks, Batman

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#177 This Jack O'Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside

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#178 My Submission For The Office Pumpkin Decorating Contest This Year

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#179 Easily My Best Pumpkin Yet

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#180 Scariest Pumpkin Carving Ever

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#181 The Hash Slinging Slasher

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#182 Pre-Halloween Pumpkin Carving

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#183 Do You Want To Know How I Got These Carves?

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#184 Just Bought Some Calls On $pumpkin

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#185 Pumpkin Riiiiiick (And Morty)

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#186 For Five Years Now I’ve Been Painting Classic Goosebumps Covers On Pumpkins. Here Is The First One Of The Season

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#187 My Nephew Has A Pumpkin Contest At School. He Better Win

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#188 My 8-Year-Old Daughter Entered This Junimo Pumpkin Into Her School's Pumpkin Decorating Contest

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#189 Carved This Last Night

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#190 A Little Late, But Here's My Totoro Pumpkin From This Year

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#191 Thanos And The Infinity Pumpkin

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#192 Got The Night King Pumpkin Carving Complete. Pretty Happy With How It Turned Out. Took About 6 Hours In Total To Gut, Carve And Shade. I Love October

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#193 It May Not Be Anywhere Near Perfect But I Am Geeking Out Over My BB8 Pumpkin Chilling On My Doorstep This Year