Hi all! I've entered photos into an online Halloween pumpkin contest, and I hope you all think it's good enough to win!

Here's the direct link:

http://www.oddtodd.com/pumpkontest4/index2.htm

My contest entry is #56, - the light blue Cinderella Carriage - very bottom row - left.

With that said, I REALLY need your help!! Winning would save me TONS of money for Christmas, as my husband is drooling over the grand prize, a VERY expensive electric guitar. Yeah...I know....

If you wish to vote, one must type in a valid email address and wait a bit for a Confirmation email as the webmaster is keeping track of email addresses and IP addresses. No worries about putting you email addy in - you won't get spammed.

Anway, this is what I used to make it, perhaps you would like to make one of your own next Halloween!

"Ingredients"

Round & -ish pumpkin or a craft pumpkin. mine is real

1/2 inch wood dowel - for the wheels

3/4 inch wood dowel

3/4 inch wood balls, wood heart and wood disk for the driver chair

4 cut off lids from real mini-pumpkins

4 lids from round wood boxes from the craft store

Shiny Gold spray paint

1 Glue gun

1 Paramedic

486 pounds of glue sticks Quick! Call the glue stick manufacturer!

1 First Aid kit for 10 for glue burned fingertips

Spray can Primer for wood/crafts plastic

Various strings of "pearls" & beads. the $1 store kind is perfect

Electric power drill

Pumpkin carving kit

Small string of battery operated Christmas lights

Regular Christmas lights

El Cheapo acrylic paints - Wal-mart kind is perfect

Various lace trimmings, all sizes. I used light blue, white and shiny gold

Straight pins

Spraycan of Shellac of some sort -

1 package of little round mirrors from any craft store

1 cooking pot lid turned upside down

1 cheap white horse & small dolly stolen from your neice's toy box.

3 two-by-fours to keep the door shut

1 large elephant to quiet the phone during the Hot Glue sessions

THE most important thing, never use paints on a real pumpkin without putting a coat of Primer on it first. There's lots wax on pumpkins and the paint will come off in a heartbeat if you don't use it!

Now, don't you think I deserve to win this thing?

I highly recomment drilling all your holes with the drill FIRST! then paint! The drill will totally crack the paint which leads to frustrating touchups!

Best Regards!