When it comes to Halloween, I get more excited about pumpkin carving than costumes. I love going to the pumpkin patch with family and friends on a crisp fall day and find the perfect orange ...

With a multitude of shapes, colors and sizes, choosing the ideal canvas for your carving talents can be confounding. But did you know that there's actually a science to the pumpkin-picking process?

Click here for a printer-friendly stencil to attach to your pumpkin. Cut around just the dotted lines for this adorable carving of Tai Shan, the panda born at the National Zoo but now living in China.

MySA first spoke to him in 2015, after he completed a pumpkin portrait of Tim Duncan. The self-taught artists said carving next-level pumpkins has become a tradition now. "I get excited once I go ...