Artist shares huge pumpkin made to look like Taylor Swift

[niyarav]

Artist Jeanette Paras shares her latest creation, the “Taylor Swiftkin,” which is a 399-pound pumpkin made to look like Taylor Swift. pic.twitter.com/HmkD9EiXXS
- Pop Crave (@PopCrave) October 25, 2023

Self-proclaimed "crazy pumpkin lady" Jeannette Paras has been carving celebrity likenesses in pumpkins since 1988.

This year she unveiled the Taylor

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[belle_chouette]

where do you get pumpkins that big

[niyarav]

Paras doesn’t grow the pumpkins herself. Taylor SwiftKin was grown by Jason Johnson and Kurt Rossbach, two Dublin [Ohio] residents. Each year Paras sources pumpkins from local growers, sometimes visiting pumpkin growing contests to meet the perfect pumpkin farmer.

The article says the biggest one she's displayed on her porch is the 705 pound Ted Lasso in the post, but:

A 1,197-pound "Carol" from "Where the Wild Things Are" was displayed on the porch of then-Ohio Governor Ted Strickland in 2009.

[niyarav]

tl;dr Ohio

[deerlike]

Best description of Ohio.

[honeebs]

🤣🤣🤣

[andisprohi]

"Each year Paras sources pumpkins from local growers, sometimes visiting pumpkin growing contests to meet the perfect pumpkin farmer."

Hallmark movie, here we come.

[martymcfly85]

When I was growing up my brother had a friend whose family grew gigantic pumpkins. It was fun.