Personalized Pumpkins

My kids have the traditional orange plastic pumpkins that I had when I was a kid, and that's how I like it. Don't get me wrong--I love the latest crop of fashionable buckets & pails, and whatnot-- but for me it's all about the tradition. The kids' pumpkins didn't present a problem for me until this year, since it's only my daughter's second Halloween and last year she was just over 1 month old! I was wondering how they weren't going to get the pumpkins mixed up. And then, I thought "DUH!"



So I cut their names out on the Cricut to personalize them! I wished I had black vinyl, but the chocolate brown worked fine...until I ran out of it after finishing Madelyn's pumpkin! So I resorted the the only other color I had, green. It worked out fine, but I may redo it in the future because it does bug me a little. Ok, a lot! ;)



Then I got crazy & tied lots of ribbons from my daughter's handle. Tried on my son's & it just looked too girly for me. He agreed! So, I'm happy with them because now they are "updated traditional!"