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2nd Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

November 3, 2010
 
Matthew and I get a little competitive when it comes to carving pumpkins. This year was our 2nd annual competition.  Scoring is based off design, originality, and technique. According to our trick-or-treating judges I won with my owl! woo hoo! {Matthew was a little too ambitious with his freestyle piece in my opinion}  He even tried to pumpkin whisper..ha! Perhaps Matthew won last year with his cat..so it’s only fair I took the title of pumpkin carving champion away from him!
 
Ok, so honestly which one do you like better? Are you Team Matthew or Team Mara? I’ll still love you, I promise!
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Pumpkin Pickin’ in Ventura

October 28, 2015

       M Loves M pumpkin patch outfit @marmar

After Matthew and I got back from Portugal, we hit the ground running for fall. Since we got back mid-October we wanted to make sure we could savor the season as much as possible. That meant decorating our house and also finding a pumpkin patch! Unfortunately, in Los Angeles there aren’t many pumpkin-on-the-vine patches. Most of the pumpkin patches here are constructed with tents and straw in parking lots behind malls. While those can be great, I really wanted to find one that felt a little more rustic and homey. I did some research and decided our best bet was heading north to find pumpkins on the vine in Ventura County.

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look book: pumpkin patch

October 17, 2011
I have been wanting to go to a pumpkin patch for years! And when I say pumpkin patch I mean a real pumpkin patch, not one of those converted parking lots with straw on the ground. I want to go to a big, beautiful field and pick a big orange pumpkin and cut it right from the vines. In LA a real pumpkin patch is almost impossible to find, but I put Matthew to the test to do some research and he found the perfect place. Of course it ended up being a little outside of LA {yes, a whole county north}, but we found it nonetheless and had the best time picking out our pumpkins! Our yearly pumpkin carving competition is coming up and I need the perfect one to win 🙂
dress c/o 11 Eureka, sweater and boots J.Crew, scarf random boutique, tights Target
I love the color of this dress! It’s so pretty and reminds me so much of the fall season. I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, this is my favorite season by far! The cooler weather, the change in lighting, the natural colors {mustards, browns, oranges}, the layering.. it really can’t be beat! {Although I know some of you summer-holics would beg to differ!}
Have a great Monday friends!
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