Pumpkin Carving Contest

October 7, 2014 11:30 pm

Morostide is around the corner--let's carve some pumpkins! We want to see what clever ideas you can come up with, so how about another contest? Staff will vote, and the three winning pumpkins will be drawn as official Subeta items that you can carve and add to your collections!

Rule Breakdown:

You must carve a pumpkin.Â Real live pie ingredient? Yes! Fake foam pumpkin? Sure!Â Potato?Â No thanks!
Your pumpkin must be Subeta-themed.
You can use other decorations (paint, glitter, ribbon, etc.) but you must include some carving!
Include a description (500 characters or fewer) that you would want to be used for the on-site item should your pumpkin win.

You can enter your pumpkin until end of day October 19th. The winning pumpkins will be released shortly thereafter. :)

Winners will receive a copy of their pumpkin and 2000 CSC! All entrants will get a handful of Morostide items (maybe a retired item or two will make a comeback?), an achievement, and a forum title!

Enter your pumpkin here!!

October 18, 2014, 3:36 pm by

Entered! I could only find foam ones at the dollar store since I live in a really small town so it looks ridiculous hahaha

October 14, 2014, 7:23 am by

Hello staff, can I send two photos of my pumpkin, one with the light on and one without? :)

October 13, 2014, 12:55 am by

Carved, photo'd and entered! And oh yea, those seeds are going in the oven! This contest has got to be one of the best ideas yet. I love Morostide.

October 11, 2014, 10:53 pm by

Got my pumpkin! Although I hope I get it done soon, I have a bunch of pumpkins I need to carve to decorate my house too

October 11, 2014, 4:54 pm by

My arm now feels like it's going to fall off but I finished my pumpkin. Don't ever tell someone you want a small pumpkin or else you'll end up with a really hard to carve pie pumpkin. Do to that I had to do a bit of creative changes do to a mishap in carving. lol I doubt it'll be the most spectacular carving but I'm proud of it.

October 10, 2014, 6:36 pm by

Can't believe how excited I am getting for this...Totally went to the pumpkin patch today just for this contest... [IMG]http://i1148.photobucket.com/albums/o568/Olivia_Wing/Pumpkinfromthepumpkinpatch10-10-14_zpsd0655a8f.jpg[/IMG]

October 9, 2014, 10:59 pm by

whoo!!! finally, a contest I have a chance with v

October 9, 2014, 8:09 pm by

YAY!! So doing this over the weekend since it's going to be raining here. :D

October 9, 2014, 8:00 pm by

Do you want lit pumpkins or just the carved pumpkins

October 9, 2014, 7:58 pm by

Do you want lit pumpkins or just the carved pumpkins

October 9, 2014, 5:03 pm by

That's fine Tanya!

October 9, 2014, 4:59 pm by

If only it could include counted cross stitch or embroidery then I might give it a try. Congrats to those that enter the contest and have fun ^_^.

October 9, 2014, 1:54 pm by

Does anyone know where you can buy foam pumpkins in the UK?

October 9, 2014, 10:44 am by

Wuuhuuuu im actually excited now!,! Last night my husband helped my carved mine! First time doing this! Carved pumpkins are not s thing in mexico, instead we make pumpkin candy but im excited sbout thr contest, time to pick a design

October 9, 2014, 3:03 am by

Walmart has foam craft carving pumpkins that were decent sized for carving in black and orange colors for like $5. Ours were on an end cap in the Halloween section, but I've also seen them in the craft section on previous Halloweens as well as on the main Halloween section shelves. Any craft store should have them otherwise!

- Would it be acceptable to like carve a giant foam craft ball into a pumpkin and then carve a pumpkin in it? What if the medium was something you could make into a pumpkin, then carve? :) Curious! Thinking of ideas for those in areas without pumpkins! ^_^

October 8, 2014, 11:54 pm by

Any craft store should carry foam pumpkins this time of year. I know Michael's does. I'll be out and about tomorrow, so I think I'll pick one up and a little carving kit (need a new kit anyways for doing carving later with the family). I'll try to come up with something and have some fun doing something more challenging (than my usual quick pumpkin carving lol). GL to anyone that is entering! This'll be fun to see all entrants. =3

October 8, 2014, 11:16 pm by

c: Just picked up 3 little (a bit more than the size of a surprisingly large grapefruit, maybe?) foam pumpkins and a carving kit at the dollar store for this...I would have bought a real one but I can't see spending like 8 bucks and then screwing up somehow. At least if I mess the foam one up, I've got two more to use. xD

October 8, 2014, 9:54 pm by

I might do this...I was going to buy a bunch of pumpkins this year and didn't know what to carve, so I guess one will go for this contest!

October 8, 2014, 9:38 pm by

I have always had bad experiences with carving real pumpkins, they grow mold, rot and sag within a few days and I have cut myself in the past because they can be really hard. Whelp, since I am making my own costume this year from scratch, maybe I can find a foam one on my journey to the craft store this weekend???

October 8, 2014, 9:09 pm by

It ends on the 19th, though? Maybe it's where I live, but we usually do our Jack-o-Lanterns/carved pumpkins/whatever within the week of Halloween because they go bad and gross so quickly. So I'll have to decide if I want to deal with pumpkins so early. :P

October 8, 2014, 6:03 pm by

aw shit I suck at carving but I really want to do this

October 8, 2014, 5:39 pm by

Sounds interesting, but I won't be entering. My family has always done their carving within the last week of October, to ensure that the pumpkin is still good on Halloween. The 19th is just too early for me to be doing it by. Particularly with the ant problem we have, I can't count on a carved pumpkin to last ~10 days, it'll be completely infested by that point.

October 8, 2014, 5:38 pm by

Star_Gazer we're trying contests with different mediums. There will be one for drawing in the future! We're trying to branch out so everyone will at some point be able to enter, basically!

October 8, 2014, 2:05 pm by

Yeah, pumpkins here are complicated... sadface. Still, I very much enjoy these contests and I hope they'll become a holiday tradition from now on! :D

October 8, 2014, 2:03 pm by

Why not be able to draw a pumpkin just as much effort. And I could understand not accepting something done on media but at least accept drawing of pumpkins some of us army financialy able to get pumpkins and others don't have them around their areas?

October 8, 2014, 1:49 pm by

Fun! I have no idea what I'll carve though..

October 8, 2014, 1:28 pm by

Can't carve to save my life, but if I can find a 'kin, I am in!

October 8, 2014, 1:14 pm by

I love these contests. Can't wait to see the winners!

October 8, 2014, 1:11 pm by

Oh yush. I am pretty happy I don't need Facebook to join this time.

October 8, 2014, 1:10 pm by

What's pumpkins, precious? What's pumpkins, eh?

October 8, 2014, 12:17 pm by

Oooo! Sounds like fun! A real pumpkin would get all icky before Halloween I think so maybe I'll try a foam one. I do have to go out this weekend. Maybe I can bribe mum into stopping at a craft store.

October 8, 2014, 11:37 am by

Aww I got excited until I saw it had to be something carved... guess crocheting a pumpkin is out :P I hope I can find a fake foam pumpkin somewhere because real ones are icky and smelly and slimey ; ;

October 8, 2014, 11:00 am by

Let's see if I am able to get a pumpkin for myself ^^ I love the idea!

October 8, 2014, 10:41 am by

I want to do this!

October 8, 2014, 10:00 am by

Potato ... Lol This looks like fun!

October 8, 2014, 9:54 am by

This has me hoping for a Christmas ornament contest. It would give me a reason to crochet Jules. As for the pumpkin, no artistic skill, and my eyesight is piss poor. Don't need to be slicing my own thumb off or something!

October 8, 2014, 9:05 am by

Can I use a laser? >D

October 8, 2014, 8:37 am by

But I live in Brazil, we don't have pumpkins here... Or fake pumpkins... We don't even have halloween! Anyway, I'll try to do it! Morostide retired item, you said? Do you accept bananas? I can paint them orange!

October 8, 2014, 8:18 am by

ugh, carving pumpkins are so much harder than it sounds XD This is a great contest, look forward to all of the entrants!

October 8, 2014, 6:46 am by

Can I draw something on a Satsuma? It's orange and round.... :D J/k, but in all seriousness, can entrants from the cake contest get some retroactive prizes as well? I want a spiffy forum title from that one; "the cake is a lie" or "took the cake" are some titles I've got in mind.

October 8, 2014, 6:19 am by

aww i've never carved a pumpkin before.. dont even know how XD what if i make a 3D model of a pumpkin and make it look like it's carved?

October 8, 2014, 6:18 am by

I wish pumpkins would at least exist where I live. I guess this is anothre achievement I won't get for real life reasons orz

October 8, 2014, 5:04 am by

yay a new contest :) i'm happy to see that it's not a contest identical to the cake one. too bad pumpkin carving is not big here. it's an imported holiday/ custom and not yet very popular. :/

October 8, 2014, 4:06 am by

I love these contests that you're doing now!

October 8, 2014, 4:02 am by

why do all entrants get something this time? =/ and not with the pie contest...

that's lame

October 8, 2014, 3:32 am by

I was going to do a subeta pumpkin anyway! But I was going to do one that was already on site... that doesn't count huh? >.<

October 8, 2014, 3:00 am by

That's nice, but it does seem to me that the cake competition was the only one recently where the other participants didn't get anything. I'm curious as to why that was different.

October 8, 2014, 2:57 am by

So...Australia isn't really big on Pumpkins, and I'm not great at carving...but you said foam is okay. Does that mean, if I were to find a foam ball...paint it orange, and carve that...it would be okay?

October 8, 2014, 2:27 am by

my pumpkin carving skills are terrible, but I'm really excited to see what other people can do!

October 8, 2014, 1:53 am by

This is so awesome

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