Happy Halloween to everyone! Hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween, below are some safety tips for everyone!

Parents:

Be sure to talk to your kids about looking both way and general safety when out and about on the sidewalks and roads.

If your children are going out along or with friends, be sure to establish a return time as to avoid any worry or concern

Establish a pre planned route so if anything happens the path is easy to find

Motorists:

Be sure to watch out for children darting out from between parked cars.

Enter and exit driveways and alleys with caution.

Also, be sure to look over all candy with care and caution, as a rule, “When in doubt, throw it out!

Happy Halloween!

Ryon did an amazing job carving out this scarey face for his Halloween pumpkin. Take a look below and see what you think!

Check out this great Pirate Ship carved by Casey Morgan of Everson. What an amazing job on the details of the flag!

Below are the pumpkins carved by Brodie and Jeremy Hoekema….

Jeremy did a great Halloween scene complete with a cat, spider and pumpkin. Great job Jeremy!

Brodie carved a headless horseman, great job to you too Brodie!

Now that the Halloween season is fully upon us, it’s time to take a look at some of the great pumpkin carving skills we have here in Bellingham and around Whatcom County.

I enjoyed a great evening carving pumpkins with friends. My previous years of pumkin carving had consisted of a knife from my kitchen, a sharpie marker and a lot of hoping and praying that my pumkin would actually resemble something like what I was intending to carve. This year I must say that wasn’t the case! We purchased a couple of those pumkin carving kits that you always see in the grocery store. We picked of two of them for around $6 ;super reasonable and take a look at the results.

You tape the pattern onto your pumkin and trace it out with a little wheel provided in the kit. The wheel makes a pattern onto your pumkin, you remove the paper and cut where the dots indicate, creating amazing designs that would never happen had you carved free-hand.

What do you pumpkin carving’s look like? Submit photos of your pumpkins as a comment or email them to me at Fawn@JohnsonTeamRealEstate.com and I will post them to the blog. We will vote on the best pumpkin and send you a gift certificate to Starbucks if you are the winner! Best of luck and Happy Halloween!