This Edmond woman will deliver Pinterest-worthy fall pumpkin decor to your door

An Edmond woman with a penchant for picking pumpkins is scouring local pumpkin patches on the lookout for the perfect — or the perfectly imperfect — pumpkins and gourds.

Pumpkins ranging from the huge "Big Max" to the tiny mini white and orange varieties aren't destined for Christine Blankenship's home.

Blankenship, as The Pumpkin Concierge, has been on the lookout for pumpkins to decorate the porches of other metro area residents, rather than her own.

She said she has always loved fall and the seasonal decorations that come with it like pumpkins. Plus, her wedding anniversary to her husband, Scott, and her and her daughter's birthdays are both in October. Her own birthday is in October as well.

"And my husband and I both just have always loved cooler weather and so we always love decorating our home," she said. "This just became the perfect opportunity to kind of spread some fall joy to people's homes."

Blankenship said she was looking for a way to get out and decorate for her favorite season and she thought it might be fun to help others get ready for fall. She said as a stay-at-home mom of two, the idea of searching for pumpkins and designing colorful decoration packages for other folks with a penchant for pumpkins just seemed like a great idea.

"It's a lot of fun and it's giving me something active to do," she said.

Blankenship, an Oklahoma State University graduate who majored in business administration, spread the word about her new business The Pumpkin Concierge on Instagram and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/thepumpkinconcierge. In August, she began to get inquiries and then, her first customers, including both residential to business. She said she has several design packages for customers to choose from, ranging from 30 pumpkins to 100.

Design packages start at $250. Add-ons include gourds and hay bales. Blankenship said the pumpkins are washed with a simple soap and water solution and pre-treated with a nontoxic substance that helps repel animals like squirrels who might munch on the decor. Blankenship said it's important to note that she will pick up the pumpkins and other decorations at the end of the season, and the pumpkins will be given to a farm or Future Farmers of America group for use as animal feed.

Customer Jennifer Rader said she saw information about The Pumpkin Concierge on social media and she thought hiring Blankenship to do her front porch design would help get the seasonal ball, or in this case, the pumpkin, rolling.

With two preschoolers, she wasn't sure if she had time to get to a pumpkin patch, pick pumpkins and get them back to the house. Rader said The Pumpkin Concierge was a good solution for "a working mom with two kiddos."

"It sounded perfect, so that's why we did it."

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Here is where you can find pumpkins in the Oklahoma City area this season