Winner: Best Decorated Pumpkin

For several weeks, Patch readers have been uploading awesome photos of their decorated pumpkins. We've crowned our winner.

Posted Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:51 pm ET

Our photo contest attracted dozens of creatively decorated pumpkin themes from the very scary to the very funny – and some in between.

Despite the close to 60 entries we received, we could only pick one.

All photos uploaded by Halloween were under consideration to be crowned the winner in Patch's Best Decorated Pumpkin Contest.

This wasn't an easy decision. After deliberating, we had to go with the "Pumpkin Eating Pumpkin" uploaded by Ben Nelson.

Congratulations, Ben and thank you to all those who participated!

Ben, please contact us so we can make arrangements to get you your $25 gift card.

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