Hi Everybody! Happy Friday……….and today my blog is all about pumpkins. Why? Well I think you know why, but if you don’t, here’s why:
I’m having a Halloween pumpkin decorating contest. Now I know that Halloween isn’t celebrated everywhere in the world – BUT that doesn’t mean you can’t play along if you’d like to. If you don’t even have fresh pumpkins available where you are, you can still do a “virtual” pumpkin….draw one – find a photo of one online that you think is way cool – but if you CAN get your hands on a real pumpkin, sharpen up your tools and carve your best pumpkin face because you just might win!
Here’s a photo of my pumpkin – my parents got it at the Pumpkin Patch at our local nursery this morning……we won’t be carving it up until closer to Halloween – and you might not carve yours until closer too – – – but my contest is going to start NOW and go through October 27th (Halloween is October 31st). You have PLENTY of time! Isn’t my pumpkin swell? It weighs FIFTEEN pounds……woo hoo!
Here’s the deal…………there will be TWO categories – you can only enter the contest ONCE so decide whether you want to enter a REAL pumpkin or a virtual one and send me a photo of your pumpkin as an attachment to an email. Please don’t make it too huge (pixel wise) because with dial-up it would take forever to download a 2000 pixel photo OK?
Pumpkin Contest Categories and Rules:
REAL PUMPKIN CATEGORY: If you decide you want your humans to help you carve the perfect REAL pumpkin – any design you want to do is fine. But it has to be a real pumpkin.
VIRTUAL PUMPKIN CATEGORY: If you don’t have access to a real pumpkin, you can have your human help you draw one with a cool design on it – or do one “virtually” with photoshop or similar software OR even if you find a photo of a way cool pumpkin online you can submit that if you like.
You can only submit ONE picture though! Send your virus checked photos (in .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, or .png format) to me with “SAMMY’S PUMPKIN CONTEST” as the subject of the email here:
Remember to tell me WHO YOU ARE in the email !!!
Remember also to tell me WHICH CATEGORY you are entering!!!
Now won’t this just be FUN FUN FUN? YOU all will be voting for the winner. We’ll make it a poll with photos and YOU choose the winners in the two categories! Voting will run from the 28th to the 30th and I’ll announce the winner on HALLOWEEN!
AND THAT’S NOT ALL BOYS AND GIRLS……..THERE WILL BE PRIZES FOR THE WINNER OF EACH OF THE TWO CATEGORIES……..YES INDEEDY THERE WILL…….! No I’m not telling what the prizes are but you know we bloggers know how to treat our blog buddies right? Right!
So put your thinking caps on – tell your humans/bipeds/other that you might need their help on this one…….and if they will be carving a pumpkin for you tell them to BE CAREFUL !
Oh Cod..I better get to it. Wez love’z prizes 🙂 xxoooxxx
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Hi Mollie! It’s pumpkin decorating time – YAY! I can’t wait to see my kitty pumpkin after Dad carves it…..this contest will be fun don’t you think??
Kitty Hugs, Sam
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Woohooo! The pumpkin contest starts!!! …I’m afraid we need no thinking caps, we need only a first aid kit :o)))))
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You’re not the only one Easy!!
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Hi Misaki…..we’ll all need to stand at the ready with first aid kits while our humans do the carving that’s for sure. I know my Mom always breathes a sigh of relief when Dad finishes my pumpkin every year with no major injuries!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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Easy I suggest you DO keep that first aid kit handy – your humans seem to be “accidents waiting to happen”….HAHAHAHA Hope you can find a nice pumpkin to decorate for the contest – a Weimie-pumpkin would be nice!
Kitty hugs, Sam
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Your pumpkin looks beautiful, Sammy! This is going to be fun!
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Hi Clowie! I think it will be fun too…..my pumpkin is awesome isn’t it? Can’t wait to see it AFTER my parents turn it into a cat!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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Sam, I found a decent pumpkin, gonna get with the carving this weekend.
I’m excited.
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Hey Doggy! I’m glad you found a pumpkin….now for the fun of figuring out how to carve it…..make sure Leo doesn’t whack off a finger or two! 😀
Kitty Hugs, Sam
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This sounds like fun, Sammy. But I think Motor Mommy will be doing a virtual pumpkin for my entry!
Love, Sundae
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Hi Sundae! Well considering Motor Man has an injured paw, this sounds like a very wise move for your pumpkin contest entry!
Love, Sammy 😀
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So looking forward to this 🙂
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Oh goodie! Hope you enter…..but either way, entering or watching, it shold be FUN!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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Mum has to have operation when she gets back from Qatar, but if she is well enough we shall enter 🙂
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Uhoh…..gee I hope your Mom is OK. Operations aren’t usually much fun! We wish her well….and if you can enter we’d LUV to have you join in the fun!!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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A contest! Super neat!!! I wonder if the peep could manage something like that. I’ll ask her AFTER she has had another cup of coffee, I think. That pumpkin your parents got you sure is a big one. Fifteen pounds? That’s bigger than me! purrs
Nerissa from Nerissa’s Life
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Hi Nissy! I know! It’s a biggie – the biggest one they ever got for my annual kitty cat pumpkin. They got a bigger one than usual because instead of doing TWO pumpkins this year they are only doing a cat pumpkin. YAY! That works for me! I hope you can enter the contest – certainly coffee is the friend of the sleepy peep – and of course if you give her “THE LOOK” how could she resist helping you enter the contest????????????????????
Kitty Hugs, Sam
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I don’t think I shall be joining in with this one, though you may get a photo of a bowl of soup. But I shall look forward to seeing the results.
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Pumpkin soup is yummy (at least my Mom says so)…….but feel free to enter a photo of it – after all it IS “a pumpkin”!
Kitty Hugs, Sam
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Sammy I think “we” meaning CH will be carving a real pumpkin that I think up for him to do. Not sure, but certainly entertaining the idea. You may have brought out our “Charlie Brown and The Great Pumpkin” excitedness 😆
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Oh Miss Pix that would be really GREAT if I got you thinking “Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin” because that’s such a BIG favorite of mine (and my Mom’s…tee hee). I bet you can come up with something WAY COOL for CH to carve with the appropriate “weaponry” !! 😉
YAY!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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We tons of pumpkin pics for our Caturday post tomorrow. Your’e welcome to take what you like. Also pls. you send us a pic for our costume contest.
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Hi Layla! Did you mean we should pick one of your pumpkin photos from tomorrow’s CatWisdom101 Caturday blog and use it for your entry in Sam’s pumpkin decorating contest?? Also, we posted Sam’s costume pic on your Facebook page but would you like me to email it to you also??
Happy Friday
Pam
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Whoop whoop! One quick questionation . . . Can whee enter both categories?
Nibbles, Nutty, Buddy & Basil
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Oh you cute piggies I wish I could say YES but I already said JUST ONE category. I know that makes it tough – especially for folks who love to be CREATIVE like you guys and your Mummy but I’ve got to stick with just one entry in one category. Do you still love me??????? 😦
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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Gah. Whee cannot decide! Lucky you have given us plenty of time!
Whee forgives you . . . Just! 😉
Nibbles, Nutty, Buddy & Basil
xxxx
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Sorry boys but considering how much artistic talent you AND your Mummy AND the little hoomans have, I’m pawsitive you wll have a spooktacular entry!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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Boo! Me is sending yous a picture!!!
Kisses
Nellie
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YAY! I got it Nellie Bellie! You is the FIRST entry – – I sent you something SPECIAL!!
Kitty Hugs, Sam
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Mowzers! Mommy just ran from the room, MOL! We think we’ll just sit back & enjoy the show!
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Well if you change your mind and want to carve a pumpkin or do a virtual pumpkin entry, make sure you get it to me by the 27th so we can all vote on the winners!! Meanwhile, don’t get too scared about Halloween – it’s just a whole lot of SCARY FUN!! 😀
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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Have to tell you that your pumpkin is PERFECTLY shaped!! (but I am sure you already know that!) Mom isn’t sure if she is going to enter (if she does it would have to be a virtual pumpkin) but she sure will VOTE!!! xoxo
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Hi Cody!!! Oh I hope you do….the one entry I have already is a virtual punkin’ – you guys always do GREAT with photoshopping fun – I bet you can do it!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUR MOMMY TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! XXXXXXOOOOOOO
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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Sounds like a fun contest! I wonder if I can get my human to carve a real pumpkin…
Purrs
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Hi Texas! Well, if your human’s not in the mood for carving, you can do a virtual one instead. My Dad’s doing the REAL THING but some folks are not too crazy about carving with SHARP THINGS!! Hope you can join in the fun – if your humans don’t cooperate, you can always pout! 😦
Kitty Hugs, Sam
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Hi! Nutty sent us over. This contest sounds like fun!
Oink oink,
Katie and Coccolino the mini pig
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Hi Coccolino!! We got your pumpkin contest entry – YAY! What a cute little pig you are – so happy you found us…..we visited your site and you look like one happy little guy!
Kitty Hugs, Sammy
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