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Love My Perpetual Jack-o-Lanterns

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Real Estate Agent with Long and Foster Real Estate VA License # 0225089470

Love My Perpetual Jack-o-Lanterns

Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year.  The decorations still bring the excitement of getting dressed up and running around door to door for candy.  Who doesn't love a well carved jack-o-lantern?

I've learned to do very good jack-o-lanterns over the years, but sometimes, time just doesn't allow.  For that reason.  I love my perpetual jack-o-lanterns.

This was the first one I ever bought.  I was a teenager at the time and felt like spending $12 at a local fall festival may have been foolish.  Ha!  Thirty years later, this ceramic jack-o-lantern is still lit up every October in my home.

About a decade ago, I added some decorative jack-o-lanterns from Meadowbrook Gourds.  They quickly became my favorites.   The gourd shape and orange light inside make them the perfect accent to a dark room as we wind up for Halloween.

These are the decorations you can find in my home every Halloween.  

 

Comments(13)

Pat Starnes-Front Gate Realty
Front Gate Real Estate - Brandon, MS
601-991-2900 Office; 601-278-4513 Cell

I love your perpetual jack-o-lanterns, too, as well as the PET that is posed next to the gourds. 

Oct 26, 2015 10:01 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

That is Minx. She's the diva of the house.  Loves sniffing on these every year when I bring them out.

Oct 26, 2015 10:30 AM
Karen Fiddler, Broker/Owner
Karen Parsons-Fiddler, Broker 949-510-2395 - Mission Viejo, CA
Orange County & Lake Arrowhead, CA (949)510-2395

Those are great! One of my best friends just made me a succulant jack-o-lantern, love it

Oct 26, 2015 10:36 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

You should post a picture of it.  Would love to see it.

Oct 26, 2015 10:44 AM
Kimo Stowell
HI Pro Realty LLC RB-21531 - Honolulu, HI
REALTOR Associate® RS-76763 - Honolulu Hawai'i

 

 

Aloha Chris Ann, the gourds are fantastic, not your usual fare and the flower arrangement is stunning with the purple mums. Minx looks quite the character thank her for me for posing so nicely!

Oct 26, 2015 11:15 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

I did make that flower arrangement and about ten more.  They were centerpieces at our wedding reception.

Oct 27, 2015 07:37 AM
Ed Silva, 203-206-0754
Mapleridge Realty, CT 203-206-0754 - Waterbury, CT
Central CT Real Estate Broker Serving all equally

We have a bunch of them all over the living room all with the candles.  My wife does enjoy Halloween

Oct 26, 2015 12:25 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

I love the lack of candles in these gourds.

Oct 27, 2015 07:38 AM
Susan Haughton
Long and Foster REALTORS (703) 470-4545 - Alexandria, VA
Susan & Mindy Team...Honesty. Integrity. Results.

Those all look great - especially the floral arrangement.  Minx is a stunning girl.

Oct 26, 2015 09:55 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

She's a diva and she knows it.

Oct 27, 2015 07:38 AM
Sheila Anderson
Referral Group Incorporated - East Brunswick, NJ
The Real Estate Whisperer Who Listens 732-715-1133

Good morning Chris Ann. I love the picture of your cat with the black one.

Oct 26, 2015 10:27 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

Minx loves these things.  Couldn't find a pic without here near them.

Oct 27, 2015 07:38 AM
Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

I love the photos!  They are some beautiful jack o lanterns!

Oct 26, 2015 10:28 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

Thanks.

Oct 27, 2015 07:38 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi Chris Ann - Nice pumpkins. And us too. We haven't carved a real pumpkin in many years - mainly because we both suck at it, and it's a mess. But we have a bunch of nice perpetual ones.

Oct 27, 2015 05:01 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

I see you've updated your avatar for Halloween.  Love it!

Oct 27, 2015 07:39 AM
William Feela
WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN
Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

WE use many of this type also...Quicker and cleaner to set up and take down.

Oct 27, 2015 08:14 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

They make decorating a breeze.

Oct 27, 2015 08:27 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

I have a pumpkin too. Except it's ceramic and green and solid, so I can't put anything in it, and I take it out every fall and put it on my dining room table where it sits all by itself and nobody else ever does until spring when I put it away.

Oct 27, 2015 10:35 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

I love seasonal decor.

Oct 27, 2015 11:52 AM
Grant Schneider
Performance Development Strategies - Armonk, NY
Your Coach Helping You Create Successful Outcomes

Chris -  your Jack O Lanterns look great.  I really like the last picture they way you got your cat to pose.

Oct 27, 2015 12:00 PM
Chris Ann Cleland

There is no posing that girl.  She does what she wants.  I happened to have my camera at the right moment.

Oct 28, 2015 06:09 AM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hi Chris Ann -- it's obvious you get in the Halloween spirit and in a very tasteful way.   As others have commented, the last photo with your cat is extra special.  

Oct 28, 2015 01:07 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

I think she wanted to be a part of the action.

Oct 28, 2015 06:10 AM
Ralph Gorgoglione
Metro Life Homes - Palm Springs, CA
California and Hawaii Real Estate (310) 497-9407

Makes sense to me.  Why not be perfect EVERY time?  Plus you're not murdering some innocent pumpkin every year...........

Oct 28, 2015 01:09 AM
Chris Ann Cleland

Murdering an innocent pumpkin...funny.

Oct 28, 2015 06:10 AM