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Throwback Thursday: The Halloween Rap-O-Lantern

October 30, 2014 by WendyB

Because this Throwback Thursday is also the day before Halloween, allow me to present — again — one of my all-time favorite pumpkin carvings: 2011’s Rick Ross Rap-O-Lantern.

Click for original source at the Armed Snobbery blog.

Click for original source at the Armed Snobbery blog.

As a jewelry designer, I had mad love for rapper Rick Ross’s diamond depictions of his own face, so I flipped out when I saw the pumpkin version of Rick and his chain. I liked Pumpkin Ross so much that I tracked down Seattle-based furniture-designer/bike-builder/music-remixer/DJ/pumpkin carver Kristjan Olsen and did a little story about him for the Huffington Post.

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT OLSEN’S PUMPKIN CARVING.

Rick Ross has lost a lot of weight lately, but I’m happy to see his jewelry hasn’t been put on a diet!

In 2012, my favorite pumpkin was gorgeous blogger Susan’s carving of FitzRoy the cat. If there’s anyone out there with carving skills who wants to make Purrkoy the kitten out of a white pumpkin, I would be most appreciative. I’ve already handled the costumes for the kittehs. FitzRoy is going as shrimp sushi …

fitzsushi

Gigi thought this was very funny.

… and Purrkoy is a little sailor.

sailorpk

His favorite song is “In the Navy” by the Village People.

Portia, the Ragdoll kitteh who has been visiting us, will be a scary vampire cat.

catula

She vants to suck your blood.

If they ring your doorbell, please fill their bags with lots of catnip and toy mousies!

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Filed Under: cats, Halloween, holidays, Throwback Thursday

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  1. Ricardo Carafina says

    October 31, 2014 at 12:48 am

    I love the cats. They’re so cute!

  2. Jacqueline Zenn says

    October 31, 2014 at 11:37 am

    Okay this is amazing. How did you get costumes on the cats? And now I want to put jewelry on Brutus and Caesar for an appropriately Roman Halloween pic.

    • WendyB says

      October 31, 2014 at 12:25 pm

      With great difficulty!

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