Connect with us

Southwest

Halloween porch pumpkins business brings in over $100K a year for Texas woman

Published

on

Halloween porch pumpkins business brings in over 0K a year for Texas woman

A Texas woman with a passion for design has turned her hobby into a booming side business. 

Heather Torres is a 41-year-old stay-at-home mom from Dallas, Texas. Her side hustle is decorating the front porches of homes for the fall holidays. (See the video at the top of this article.)

Torres said she started decorating front porches with pumpkins and Halloween decorations in 2020 after some neighbors complimented her own home’s decor and asked her to do the same for their porches, SWNS reported. 

STAY-AT-HOME MOM REDOES FURNITURE HEADED FOR THE TRASH, CREATES UNIQUE, UPCYCLED DESIGNS

“When we started, I was doing two or three porches a day. Yesterday I did 89 porches alone,” she told the outlet.

Advertisement

She starts prepping for the season and taking orders in July — sometimes getting inspiration from things around her. 

Heather Torres of Dallas, Texas, pictured here, started decorating front porches as a side hustle in 2020. Today, she runs a business.  (SWNS)

Torres visited the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden years ago and said it always inspired her to do pumpkin displays at home.

COLOR-OBSESSED WOMAN ON TIKTOK MAKES ORANGE HER ENTIRE PERSONALITY: ‘I DON’T CHASE, I ATTRACT’

“They would have a little pumpkin village you could walk through and see all the varieties of pumpkins,” she said. 

Advertisement

Torres said it inspired her. She purchased 45 pumpkins for her home’s front yard, all of various sizes and shapes. 

Festive front porch

Torres decorates front home porches every fall for hundreds of homes. (SWNS)

In 2013, Torres created her first-ever porch display. 

She said her displays were spread out in the yard at first before she confined it to just the front porch area.

MAN TRAVELS THE WORLD ON A CRUISE SHIP FOR FREE AFTER QUITTING HIS DAY JOB: ‘HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH’

“I started creating designs and using different varieties of pumpkins,” she said. 

Advertisement

Clients spend anywhere from $325 to $1,350 to have their porch decorated for fall. 

“That is when my friends and neighbors asked if I could do it for them.”

Today, Torres told Fox News Digital she sources her pumpkins from all over Texas, making sure to support local farmers. 

Clients spend anywhere from $325 to $1,350 in order to have their porch decorated for the fall season. 

Festive front porch

Torres said she made $100,000 in her first fall season of pumpkin decorating.  (SWNS)

“The way I create displays for my clients is I showcase the beautiful specialty pumpkins in the front and those are the pumpkins that have all the colors: pink porcelain doll pumpkins, gray jaradelle pumpkins, red Cinderella pumpkins, and white Cinderella pumpkins,” she told Fox News Digital. 

Advertisement

For more Lifestyle articles, visit www.foxnews.com/lifestyle

“We also consider the best placement of the pumpkins for each design, at the entry of the porch or on the porch,” she said. 

In 2020, she decorated 250 homes in the area, earning herself $100,000 for the side-hustle hobby. 

This year, Torres told Fox News Digital that her company, Porch Pumpkins, has decorated and designed over 1,000 homes.

Advertisement
Festive front porch

A stay-at-home mom said she found inspiration from a botanical garden.  (SWNS)

Within five to 35 minutes, Porch Pumpkins says it will transform the front entrance to homes with festive decorations. 

In December, once the fall season ends, Torres’ company goes back to the homes they decorated and takes down the displays. 

“I love the holidays — I think October and pumpkin season mark the beginning of the holiday and the start of festivities,” she said to SWNS. 

Torres believes the displays make “people so happy and bring joy.”

Advertisement

Read the full article from Here

Continue Reading
Advertisement
Click to comment

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Los Angeles, Ca

Ambulance crashes while exiting Inland Empire freeway

Published

on

Ambulance crashes while exiting Inland Empire freeway

Emergency crews were called to assist one of their own after an ambulance crashed while exiting the westbound 60 Freeway in the city of Ontario early Monday morning.

The crash involving an AMR ambulance on the Vineyard Avenue offramp was reported around 1:15 a.m., the California Highway Patrol confirmed.

Video showed the ambulance had crashed into some bushes and possibly a pole after going over a small embankment.

An AMR ambulance is seen after crashing in Ontario on Oct. 28, 2024. (KNN)

A California Highway Patrol spokesperson could not say whether the ambulance was transporting a patient at the time of the crash.

The condition of the ambulance driver and any passengers inside the vehicle were also unknown.

Advertisement

A second ambulance was sent to the scene but it was unclear if anyone was transported.

The disabled ambulance was towed from the scene and the roadway cleared as of 2 a.m., according to the CHP.

The cause of the crash is being investigated.

Continue Reading

Southwest

Democrats struggle to understand Trump’s appeal among Latino men in Arizona: Politico

Published

on

Democrats struggle to understand Trump’s appeal among Latino men in Arizona: Politico

Join Fox News for access to this content

Plus special access to select articles and other premium content with your account – free of charge.

By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News’ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive.

Please enter a valid email address.

Having trouble? Click here.

While the Harris campaign leads the Trump campaign among Latino voters in Arizona, Latino men are proving a more difficult constituency to reach for Democrats. 

“I think the bottom line is, Democratic consultants, Democratic politicians, they just have such a hard time accepting that Latinos can just be conservative,” a historian at Northwestern University, Geraldo Cadava, told Politico. 

Advertisement

Some polls, including a Suffolk University/USA Today poll, have found that Latino men under the age of 50 strongly support former President Trump. 

TRUMP, HARRIS NECK AND NECK IN BATTLEGROUND STATES ARIZONA, GEORGIA, NORTH CAROLINA

While the Harris campaign leads the Trump campaign among Latino voters in Arizona, Latino men are proving to be a more difficult to reach for Democrats.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“Looking at the data, it was all about inflation/economy and immigration,” pollster David Paleologos said when asked to summarize the survey findings for Politico.

“She’s 7 percent shy of where she needs to be,” Paleologos said of Vice President Kamala Harris’ popularity with Latinos in Arizona. 

Advertisement

Some voters have also signaled support for Harris’ policies, however. Gerald de la O, who has voted for Trump previously, told Politico that he was impressed by Harris’ economic policies. 

“Her economic plan to give the middle class their money back sounded pretty good,” he said to Politico. 

TRUMP RECEIVES UNANIMOUS ENDORSEMENT FROM BORDER PATROL UNION

Kamala Harris speaks to reporters

Some voters have also signaled support for Harris’ policies, however. Voter Gerald de la O told Politico that he was impressed by Harris’ economic policies.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

“Hispanic men want to be able to work,” Catholic author, radio host, and Catholics for Trump leader Jesse Romero said to Politico. “They don’t want government overreach. They want to be left alone.” 

The debate over mass deportations, which Trump has spoken in favor of on the campaign trail, is also a point of division for Hispanic voters. 

Advertisement

“The first group that is going to be benefited by a mass deportation resolution to the immigration problem are the Hispanics that have been in this country legally for the last 40, 50 years,” Hispanic communications director for the Trump campaign, Jaime Florez, told Politico. “We all know that I’m an immigrant, right? I understand when the president [Trump] is talking about immigrants, he’s not talking about me.”

The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. 

 

Read the full article from Here

Advertisement
Continue Reading

Los Angeles, Ca

Pedestrian and motorcyclist killed in Ventura County highway crash

Published

on

Pedestrian and motorcyclist killed in Ventura County highway crash

A pedestrian and a motorcyclist were killed in a highway crash in Ventura County early morning Sunday, according to the California Highway Patrol.

CHP said officers responded to reports of a crash around 6:05 a.m. on Highway 118 west of Rocky Peak Road in Moorpark.

Officers found an unoccupied car in the center median, and east of the car they found a 33-year-old Canoga Park woman and a 54-year-old Simi Valley man lying in the highway lanes, both deceased.

The victims’ identities are being withheld by CHP pending notification to their families.

Advertisement

According to the preliminary investigation, it’s believed that the woman first crashed her Nissan Altima into the right side guardrail, spinning out of control across all westbound Highway 118 lanes until she crashed into the center median wall.

She then got out of the car and was standing in the first lane when the motorcyclist struck her.

CHP said the force of this crash was so great that it ejected the man from his motorcycle.

Both victims and the motorcycle, a 2020 Triumph Truxton, ended up sprawled across the roadway, west of the crash scene.

No arrests were made and CHP said the involvement of alcohol/drugs is unknown at this time.

Advertisement

The fatal crash closed down the left three lanes of westbound Highway 118 near Rocky Peak Road for about 4 hours, and traffic was redirected through the right lane. 

For additional information regarding the deceased, CHP asked people to please contact the Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office at 805-641-4400.

The CHP Moorpark Area Office is investigating this crash and encourages any potential witnesses who have not already given their statements to an investigating officer to contact the CHP Moorpark Area Office at 805-553-0800.

Continue Reading

Trending