Beginner's Luck or Best in Show?

We were invited to a special party hosted by Mary Pat & Tom.

It celebrates Halloween, the Great Pumpkin and/or the competitive spirit in many of us.


A pumpkin is delivered to your home 3 days before the party. You can carve, decorate, exploit the pumpkin in any way you want as part of the competition. We had heard stories about previous years' winners and knew that simply carving the pumpkin would get you in the door but that was about it.

Picking up a photography, paparazzi, camera theme and utilizing my brother's mechanical skills, we designed and built the Pumpkam used by the Pumparazzi. Simply genius.

The design tested our understanding of 'is there such thing as a Canadian Tire' in Buenos Aires? After several trips to various stores, the Pumpkam became a reality.... We tested it and in 2 boxes, transported it to the party for assembly and use.

The Pumpkam was not the only component of our entry, Mimi was responsible for displaying and describing some of the published photos by this Pumparazzi including work involving our hosts. Here is Tom...
....and Mary Pat:

They have a beautiful home with stables attached for their race horses. The house, yard and horses were all decorated for the evening.

The Pumpkam worked well - in fact here is a sample. I especially like the orange halo cast by the pumpkin itself.

To our surprise, we won the 'Most Creative' Award....The prize was a beautiful engraved silver ice bucket.

I am already working on next year's idea.

B.