World Pumpkin Carving Championship

 Hi all,  Well, they say third time's a charm. Perhaps the third time I sit down to post the winners I will actually get it done! Here's to hoping, because not sure about yours, but the pumpkins carved in this house are oozing on our compost pile and well on their way to being food for next year's pumpkins so it's time to get this wrapped up.  Just to revisit the scoring - the judges all choose their top 3 picks. A 1st place vote gives 10 points, a 2nd place vote 7 points and a 3rd place vote 5 points. This year we had 8 judges and for the first time ever 7 of them agreed on the first place. As far as I can remember that has never happened. I have a funny feeling I am going to get accused of rigging the competition or paying off the judges but I claim innocence!!  The podium has some well known names this year (Congrats guys!!) but what excites me most is the 4th-6th places. The Turnbulls have some up and coming carvers to watch out for...  Thanks to all the car...

Well my friends, you did it again. 15  17 (so sorry to the 2 I missed in the first post! Shouldn't be so tricky to keep track of all the pictures but thank you for keeping me in line and please don't take it personally :)) Stormy pumpkins carved by participants from 6-70! We have at least one first time carver this year so welcome to you :)  Hope everyone had a great Halloween with more treats than tricks. Stay tuned to hear what the judges have to say... Pumpkin A Pumpkin B: Windfall Pumpkin C: Collateral damage Pumpkin D: Halloween blown away Pumpkin E: Lightning storm Pumpkin F: Saddened sun Pumpkin G: Skull in the wind over stormy water Pumpkin H: Storm cloud Pumpkin I: Storm dragons Pumpkin J: Storm front blowing in Pumpkin K: Stormy (Pusheen's sister) Pumpkin L: THOR the thunder maker Pumpkin M: Twister of Oz Pumpkin N: Two ghosts in a storm Pumpkin O: Boat in a storm Pumpkin P: Twister Pumpkin Q: Witch on a stormy night