How awesome! My son got a kick out of watching the video. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the tutorial, Brae! I love that video!

I love your pumpkins and especially the lantern, it's awesome. Thanks soooo much for giving the link to the shop that sell flickering LEDs with a battery! They look so easy to use! Hope your migraine has gone for good! Have a great, busy weekend, Patrick from Thailand

I love your flickering pumpkin lantern, light really brings a scene to life.

What a great tutorial Brae, I was wondering how you made a hollow pumpkin, never thought to fill it with foil. I love the flickering effect you have given it with the LED. Thanks for sharing your work.

Thanks so much for the great tutorial ! I love your pumpkins !

Love it! You can almost hear the witches cackling laughter in the background

Your pumpkins look great, I like how the lines look more realistic than others I have come across.

Great work! Your first photo is really Halloween, scary! Mona

Last year I tried the marble method, but it was so difficult I only made one Jack-o-lantern. This year I tried it with foil, but my first attempt fell apart because the foil was too thick to pull out. So I tried making a form out of baked Sculpey, wrapped that in foil, and then made the pumpkin around it. That worked out as well the marble. >< I'm guess I'm stuck a one per year right now. I like the flickering light. Even when it's just a still photo, it really adds to the scene.

Gosh thats amazing. I love it.

This whole project is amazing. So atmospheric and your Jack o' lantern is the icing on the cake!

Thanks so much!!!

Great tutorial Brae, I looked all over the internet for advice on how to make my cauldrons and here you have shown me how I can make the hollow shapes I need! I should have known your site would give me the answer eventually! Love the pumpkins too of course!!

Now I understand why your pumpkins look so much better than the ones I've seen on mini stores (the ones with lights one), you made them! They are just perfect!!! Reading how difficult it was to carve it after baked and also to remove the foil inside, I thought I'd might try two things if I try to make something similar: use paper instead of aluminum foil (you can always soak the pumpkin to 'melt' the paper later - and inside the polymer clay paper can be baked safely) and use a dental drill tip with dremer tool for carving. (micromark has those). I wonder if those adjustments would make things easier or just mess things up, lol!

Thank you!!! The paper ball might not be a bad thing to try. The foil wasn't difficult, but there were sections that got caught in the baked clay. I just had to pull hard and was afraid of breaking the outer shell. I would worry about using power tools on something you're holding in your hand. If there was a way to hold the pumpkin without leaving tool marks, then it might be an option. It was precarious enough using a sharp blade on it.

A bit late but these are marvellous.

He looks great! The flickering light makes it A MILLION times cooler!

Thanks so much!

Damn Brae, you are too good!!!! I want to say look at this, and look at that, but you know whats there already Look at the cat on the step, with the flickering pumpkin, and the leaves and the moss, and the flaking paint, look at the grass, it has dry patches, etc, etc,.. Great attention to detail.

Thank you!!!

So many wonderful ideas here. I love just knowing there are ways to make empty pumpkins in our miniature homes and other creations.

Thank you!!!

Evans Design are just great. I'm a complete mini building novice, but I purchased many sets of lights from them, they were fast and a fantastic company to deal with. I bought their fire kit and installed it in my daughter's dollhouse fireplace. It looks very realistic and I spent many minutes gazing into the tiny living room ) Thank you for the great tutorial, let's see if I can get even remotely close to Jack-o-lantern.

Your pumpkins look great, you have inspired me to try some!