A woman earns more than $100k A YEAR from her side hustle - decorating porches with pumpkins.

Heather Torres, 41, has decked out thousands of homes since she started her side hustle in September 2020.

Clients pay her between $325 and $1,350 to decorate their porches and front gardens with pumpkins for the spooky season.

Heather decided to start her own business after her neighbours complimented her Halloween decorations and asked her to design theirs.

Since starting Porch Pumpkins in 2020, Heather has decorated 250 houses in person - earning $100k - and this year she received 1,052 orders for pumpkins.

Heather, a stay-at-home mum and business owner, from Dallas, Texas, US, said: "When we started, I was doing two to three porches a day - yesterday I did 89 porches alone."

"My working year starts in July, when I started taking orders, and then in December we will collect the pumpkins."

"In September 2020, I started out with a very simple Word document showcasing the designs in my yard and the rest is history."

"In the first year, we made $100k in revenue and we have grown each year."

In 2013, Heather lived across from the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden and often visited their pumpkin display.

She said that the display in the botanical garden inspired her to do one of her own.

Heather said: "They would have a little pumpkin village you could walk through and see all the varieties of pumpkins."

"They would always have such a gorgeous display. I thought the pumpkins were beautiful and loved to decorate in the seasons."

"I thought I would bring a pumpkin to our front door, I ended up bringing 45 pumpkins - they were all orange but different sizes."

Heather says her first attempt at a display was "tacky" but improved over the years to the point where her neighbours started asking her to decorate their gardens."

She said: "October 2013 was the first time I ever did a pumpkin display."

"I had them all spread out in the yard, after that, my designs got a little more defined."

"I started creating designs and using different varieties of pumpkins."

"That is when my friends and neighbours asked if I could do it for them."

In September 2020, Heather launched Porch Pumpkins where she uses pumpkins to design a display for the spooky season.

Clients pay Heather between $325 and $1,350 to decorate their porches and front gardens with pumpkins for the spooky season.

She said her biggest design can take her 35 minutes to arrange and her smallest will take her around five minutes.

Heather said: "I love the holidays, I think October and pumpkin season mark the beginning of the holiday and the start of festivities."

"I think it makes people so happy and brings joy - it makes the home feel nice."

"People enjoy a Christmas tree in their home, our pumpkin displays are marking the beginning of fall."