It appears that I have won the 2nd Annual 2006 Pumpkin Carve Off that Crickie and I hold each year. Despite running late this year, we had a good many people place their votes. Thank you to all whom contributed. This means that I get to wear the title of The Great Pumpkinhead for another 12 months or so.

To be fair to Crickie though, her local Pumpkin’s Are Us (ie, supermarket), let her down terribly at the last moment by not having any genuine god’s honest garden variety traditional pumpkins left to sell her for the competition. As a result she had to go with a Cinderella Pumpkin, which limited her design choices. I find it hard to believe that Cinderella ever made it to the ball in one of those things quite frankly, so I must give Crickie sincere props for doing so well with bad resources.

My win this year brings the overall tally to a 1-1, even. Next year should be a very determined match.

I was very happy with my own creation, my Oriental Dragon Pumpkin, as seen below:

Again, thank you to everyone whom voted. See you again next year!