Lanterns of Liberty

http://www.LanternsOfLiberty.com/ ^ | October 27, 2001 | self

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"Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." - Theodore Roosevelt -

At no time in our lives have these words rung truer to the employees of Pumpkin Masters. Halloween is the one time of year when we touch millions of American families. In an effort to enable Americans to show their patriotism within the unique American Halloween tradition, Pumpkin Masters created Lanterns of Liberty, and is distributing, for free, three special patriotic patterns that we hope every American family will use to carve an extra pumpkin to honor our great country.

Lanterns of Liberty hopes to unite 10-million American households this Halloween in a display of patriotism. This movement is not about replacing your Halloween traditions; rather it is about helping you include the patriotic spirit as a piece of your existing celebrations.

Participating is easy. Just print out one of the patriotic pumpkin-carving patterns from the link below and use it on one of your jack-o-lanterns.

Lanterns of Liberty

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I thought with Halloween just around the corner and people getting ready to carve their pumpkins, that this might be a good time to post this link.

At the above link you can see the 3 patterns and how they would look when lit. When you click on the link for downloading it takes you back to Pumpkin Masters and you have to click on the Lanterns of Liberty logo. The other patterns are linked at the top of the page. There is also a pattern for Bush, located under the logo at the very bottom of the box.

They look pretty neat. I printed out all 4 and plan to carve two of them. Not sure which ones yet.

Anyway, I just thought perhaps some others might be interested in carving patriotic pumpkins.

Have fun!

[katnip]

Thank you! They are beautiful. We buy new Pumpkin Masters design books every year.

We decided against our annual Halloween party this year and were still debating even carving pumpkins. I hate to deprive my 9 year old this pleasure.

We will definitely be carving a few of these patriotic pumpkins. Thanks so much

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Your more than welcome! I may have to get a couple more pumpkins, I like them all!

[billorites]

We tried to do the George W. Bush last Halloween.

Made one "butt-ugly" mess of a pumpkin.

Gonna do the Jack-o-lantern motif this year, maybe stick a flag in the top.

Hope other Freepers have better manual skills than Mrs. Billorites and I.

[Sunshine55]

If you have any Lite Brite pegs lying around, you can make an awesome flag using those too, provided you have enough red, white and blue pegs. Just carve the pumpkin till the shell is thin enough that they will go all the way through and use a bulb or a candle.

[katnip]

I would have never thought of that! What a great idea. It looks like I better rush out tomorrow and get myself some pumpkins.

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Hey, that's a really good idea. Finally a use for all those bright lite pegs!!! Unfortuantely (fortunately for me) I gave ours away to my sister for her kids to play with! lol But it is an excellent idea all the same!

You can also use pictures from coloring books. I've had to this a few times when my son wanted a T-Rex on the pumpkin! Turned out great.

I've used their patterns or coloring books for years and always get lots of compliments on them. One neighbor stopped by saying she looks to see what I will carve each year!!

[sockmonkey]

Thanks for posting this. They look great. Think I will nominate you for the office of Freeper Fun/Crafts Ambassador.
You might be hard pressed to come up with any tinfoil hats as creative as some I've seen posted in pics on FR lately.
And certainly, the FR facepainters at the DC Freep today showed some very creative talent.

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LOL I'll have to check out the tin foil hats! Sometimes I come across odd sites in my searches and bookmark them for later use. I had meant to look see what Pumpkin Masters has for free this year a few days ago. Wish I had, as that would have given people more time to use these images. I hope most haven't already carved their pumpkins.

Here's a couple of links geared towards kids.

The Pumpkin Farm

Kids Crafts

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A Sunday bump for those that might be interested.

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Bumping and a little info. Tried the 'United We Stand' but the letters for 'we' are small and close together. If anyone decided to do this one, they might want to try and enlarge the pattern so allow for ease of cutting these letters out.

The other two turned out great though!