Lame I know, but I'm proud of my "Hope" pumpkin

[trailrunners]

I just finished carving my Obama "Hope" symbol pumpkin and I'm so proud of it, I just had to post the photo.



The kids loved it. It should be safe this Halloween as we live in one of the bluest precincts in on the the bluest cities (Duluth, MN)in the country.

[SallyMander]

1. Wonderful job!!!

:yourock:

[BrklynLiberal]

2. That is EXCELLENT!! In the window with a candle inside!!!

[asdjrocky]

3. Good job dad, you should be proud.

[AuntPatsy]

4. You should be, it's beautiful, a work of art...

[Sydnie]

5. That's great!

Wish I lived close ... I would have you carve one for me too.

:woot:

[Jade Fox]

6. That's great! nt

[grannylib]

7. You did a beautiful job! We did punkins this weekend too, but yours

came out much better than mine did...but I'm REALLY proud of my granddaughter's - she did McSame with his tongue hanging out *lol*

[QueenOfCalifornia]

50. the "retard"

carving is not very appropriate. IMHO.

[Blondiegrrl]

8. I love it! You did a great job.

Happy Halloween! :toast:

[rwheeler31]

9. Love it, Happy halloween.

[tomnjoy]

10. Awesome!!

That is amazing! I wish I had your artistic talent.

Yay Duluth!! I was born in Duluth (but grew up in Brainerd). My mom, brother and grandmother still live in northern MN in Tower (north of Virginia).

[quantass]

11. Nice Job. Geez, i cant even draw a proper circle much less carve...

[AZBlue]

12. Nicely done!

[enki23]

13. Can I move to the part of Duluth you're in? In our neighborhood, they smashed our obama sign.

Nice pumpkin, btw.

[trailrunners]

16. Yeah, we'd love to have you in our neighborhood!

We're over by UMD and there are a few houses for sale around here. The only damage to our Obama sign occured when one of my son's buddies tried to hurdle the sign and didn't quite make it. Bent it up a little, but it's still standing strong. It's a GREAT neighborhood!

[enki23]

57. i don't doubt it. i'm in a grad program at UMD, so i'm in the area all day

our house, however, is right on the edge of a bunch of college student rentals, and every year (sometimes semester) is something akin to russian roulette. other than that, i love the city.

[Betsy Ross]

14. Nice job. Gave me a smile.

It's ok to show off to your friends.

[PBS Poll-435]

15. Beautiful!

:D

[AtomicKitten]

17. I approve of your message. ;)

[Quantess]

18. Nice job! It looks better than mine.

I didn't use a stencil, though.

[Brundle_Fly]

19. I work as an artist and I consider myself to be a pumpkin carving expert...

and that is one hell of a great pumpkin...

*bows*

[Lex]

20. Hey that's excellent.

Great job! :thumbsup:

[VPStoltz]

21. I've seen a couple of those in my Seattle neighborhood.

[calimary]

22. VERY nice, and Welcome to DU!!!

Glad you're here! Nice work on that pumpkin!!!

Halloween HOPE!!!

Reminds me of eight years ago when my next door neighbor and I walked our kids around the neighborhood trick-or-treating. He was a staunch, life-long, old-style Republican (NOT a republi-CON). As we were making the rounds, the talk naturally gravitated toward the election just a few days away. bush v Gore. He knew my politics and my preference for Gore. Ever the gentleman, he never engaged me in any political debate or tried to give me a hard time. He was a mcsame man. Well, McCain, back then. And he was discouraged, one of those who was going to be holding his nose to vote for bush because his man had already lost. And as we walked, he mumbled, somewhat downcast, "bush is SO STOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-pid."

This same fellow and his wife just recently replaced their Obama for President yard sign with a newer Obama/Biden sign.

:toast:

[KT2000]

23. Are you an artist?

because that is far from lame - it is very well done!
Or do you have special pumpkin tools!?!?

[trailrunners]

41. Not an artist, but my Dad is

So, maybe I got a little skill from him, but not much. My sister is an art teacher, so she got most of it. I just used a paring knife to carve it, but I was VERY careful! ;)

[GetTheRightVote]

24. Cool very Cool !!!

:bounce:

[bluedawg12]

25. Outstanding! n/t

[Connonym]

26. nicely done n/t

[I LIKE IKE 61]

29. Wow!

Love those Hope pumpkins. They are great. :) Thanks for posting them! :)

[IndependentDem]

27. cool. be sure to add it to yeswecarve.com

they have a bunch of really cool Barack O' Lanterns from supporters all over the place.

http://www.yeswecarve.com/

[rufus dog]

28. Looks damn good, very clean lines.

[Greg K]

30. Very cool - here's mine (and my '04 pumpkin too)

I was a little more ambitious 4 years ago. Hard to believe it's been that long:

[Muttocracy]

59. Wow! Your Kerry-Edwards one is amazing! nt

[bmartello]

31. i love your "Hope" pumpkin! n/t

[Clio the Leo]

32. That's one of the best ones I've seen! NT

[flygal]

33. Wow - that's really good!

We're cutting ours tonight but we are artistically challenged so we'll be lucky to get it look like a face!!

[bowens43]

34. Not lame, very cool!! nt

[npincus]

35. I LOVE your pumpkin!!!

Why do you say it's lame? I think it's great.

My 6-year old gets to design the pumpkin, so I don't think it's going to look like yours! :)

[trailrunners]

42. Actually...

I meant the lame part to be posting a photo of it here on DU. There are so many other important things to discuss here. :-)

[npincus]

51. I disagree! In these final anxious days, we need something to smile at...

like your darling pumpkin! :)

I'm thinking we should carve ours tonight!

[spoony]

36. You should be proud, that's really cool!

[H2O Man]

37. Really nice.

A job well done.

Nominated.

[Undercurrent]

38. Great job!

I really like the idea of the Obama pumpkins.

[No Elephants]

39. Wow! You are one good pumpkin carver. And what a great idea! Respect. (And you're cute, too.)

[Rex_Goodheart]

40. LOL

OK, I'm looking for a girlfriend. Gotta go get myself a pumpkin carving knife and post my own on DU.

[stuntcat]

43. it's beautiful!

I wanna make one too!! I'll do it this afternoon!

[ellacott]

44. Oh wow!! That is soo cool

You did a good job. :)

[Psyop Samurai]

45. Excellent!...

The guy holding it's not too bad either.

:evilgrin:

[Jennicut]

46. Love it! Wow, good job.

[bigwillq]

47. Awesome!

:bounce:

[Kukesa]

48. That's not lame, that's really cool! n/t

[QueenOfCalifornia]

49. IT'S THE GREAT PUMPKIN!!!!

Charlie Brown!

I love it and am going to do one myself! Not lame! Wonderful... Any you look like a nice person too!

:yourock:

Send the pic to the Obama campaign!

[K8-EEE]

52. FYI everyone, you can download Obama Pumpkin stencils

at www.yeswecarve.com

I did one that is the EPITOME OF LAME.....GIANT CHUNK FELL OUT OF THE "T" ON "VOTE.." But it still makes people smile!

[quantass]

53. Very Professional!

[quantass]

54. Very Professional!

[Terran]

55. Not lame at all!

Way to go!!

[Duppers]

56. WOW!

love it!

and welcome to DU.

[peace frog]

58. Beautiful!

I love it!

[No Elephants]

60. Kicking for Hope on Halloween

[happychatter]

61. I made a hope apple pie last night.... but the hope part got burned

the kids were laughing at me, when they saw my big boo boo lip

[OnionPatch]

62. That is awesome!!

Very cool! And I hope you don't mind, but my eight-year-old daughter comes home from school in about an hour, and we have four big pumpkins to carve.....I was trying to think of some ideas on the way home, so maybe I'll do something similar on one of them. :)