By Jess Chamberlain, Sunset home & design writer

So, it's basically the day before Halloween, and--like me--you haven't gotten it together to carve your orange beauties. Well, don't.

On a recent trip to Seattle I snapped this pic of an entryway with simple intact pumpkins adorning the steps. It's likely the homeowners had plans to carve them eventually. But maybe not. They look so nice and artsy and deliberate.

Last week senior designer Monica Ewing and I went on our annual pumpkin-run to Farmer John's Pumpkins in Half Moon Bay, where we loaded five (yes five) wagons with pumpkins to play around with for our October 2008 story. Farmer John had an incredible selection of shapes and colors--ones that look artsy, no carving required.

Here's a little inspiration. It's not too late for a little Halloween spirit--and the bonus to the pumpkin carving procrastination is that if you don't carve them into jack-o-lanterns, they won't look out-of-date come November 1st.

I'm especially in love with the pumpkins that look like watermelons (I'm holding one in the second row pic, left) and the mini pumpkins (gourds?) that look like lemons (third row, middle). Oh, and the green pumpkin that I called "the baby" because it was so new its stem and leaves were still vibrant (third row, left). Farmer John calls the little yellow ones with the long sturdy stem (second row, right) "lollipops". Too cute.