The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer and Halloween is back again. I’m sure we’re all looking forward to some spooky events, scary attractions and Halloween parties to celebrate the witching hour.

Here are a couple of ideas I tried out to tastefully add some pumpkin magic to your home – a flower vase and sweetie jar!

In both cases I scooped out the flesh and inserted a jam jar into the hole. For the sweetie jar, I finished it off with a beautiful silver lid that I borrowed off a trinket pot.

As an added bonus to this little project, you are of course left with quite a lot of pumpkin flesh, which I then used to make a delicious curried pumpkin and carrot soup.

Simply follow this BBC recipe, but halve the number of carrots used and replace with the pumpkin.

Happy Halloween everyone!

// Photography by Melissa Carla.