Pumpkin carving?

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Whoa Flopkins--I love them all but Wallace and Gromit are my faves!!!! Wish I had thought of that, but I took the less labour intensive route this year and did scary faces, stars and spiders.

cheers--Sharon

 

[justjulia]

Here''s ours! My son carved it--he was so proud. All I had was one of those tall Yankee candles, which is apple scented. So, when hubby saw it, he said, I smelled some kind of fruity pumpkin pie-that''s where it came from? The glass is so tall it''s directing all the heat straight up. I''ll have it all cooked by the end of trick or treating! Sadly, I don''t think we''ll get many kids. I bought tons of Reeses though--so I know what I''ll be eating 24/7...hard to know when you are new to an area how much to buy...ya know?

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Oaky, these are not lit, but I don''t have the energy to go retake the pictures! This one is by my son:

 

[diamondseeker2006]

Youngest daughter did the little cat by herself.

 

[chellebelle]

Wow everyone''s pumpkins look soooo great! I wish I had better carving skills! Now, this is probably "cheating", but I painted my pumpkin. I left the carving to Robbie! But now after looking at everyone''s, I''m kinda wishing I would''ve carved mine instead.

Anyways, I surprised Robbie by painting him a Seahawks pumpkin since he is a huge fan and then I painted a little pumpkin for Sophie. Well technically it is a "gourd" as Robbie likes to correct me.

(Who knew? It looks like a miniature pumpkin!) Anyways, all these jack-o-lanterns look amazing, I think I may have to give in and carve one for fun!
Have a wonderful night and a Happy Halloween.

 

[fatafelice]

I LOVE pumpkins!

Normally, I spend an obscene amount of money on pumpkins each Halloween, but this year I got lucky; FI is working in central PA, so he has brought me back a ton of them from the farms out there.

I had to carve them all this afternoon, but I got three big ones and three little ones done. Of course, I have only had TWO trick-or-treaters so far, but I still think it is worth it. Halloween is my favorite holiday, after all.

As much as I love carving pumpkins, I apparently suck at photographing them. I couldn''t get any good pictures of the cute little ones I put out on my front fence posts, but I have some slightly-more-visible ones of the others...

My favorite this year...

 

[fatafelice]

with and without flash of another one...

 

[fatafelice]

last one...I have a flashing battery light in it, so it was impossible to get a dark pic...but it is a really misshapen pumpkin (FI''s favorite) and I tried to make the giant bump on top look like a furrowed brow.

grrrrrr....angry pumpkin!

 

[chellebelle]

Okay so I got a not-so-good pic of Robbie's pumpkin. I couldn't leave him out since he carved the acutal real jack-o-lantern! It's supposed to have crossbones, but he gave up and said to call them "ears".

And Sophie is quite curious of this large orange thing on the living room floor....

 

[SuzyQZ]

Here''s my pumpkin that I did today. I hope it''s not considered cheating because I used a stencil design from a book. I DID carve it myself!

 

[jorman]

I did three pumpkins for our patio.
Here is the first one for Boomer.

 

[jorman]

Here is the smiley one:

 

[jorman]

Here is our scared one:

 

[FireGoddess]

Awesome pumpkin SuzyQZ!!

 

[SuzyQZ]

Date: 11/1/2006 5:03:32 PM
Author: FireGoddess
Awesome pumpkin SuzyQZ!!

Thank you FireGoddess.
I got 3rd prize in our neighborhood pumpkin carving contest. 1st prize went to a 12 year old girl who carved a really cute racoon with cute big eyes! I was happy with my "Igor's brew" and my 3rd place prize.... A $25 Starbucks card! Yeah, I was way happy with that!

 

[lumpkin]

I am so happy to see all the great pumpkins! They all turned out great, and for those who asked if it was cheating to use a stencil, NO! It''s awesome. I love the jack-o-lanterns -- it''s one of my fave Halloween things.

I''ve got a couple to share, though I didn''t have time to learn to use my new tools. I did use them, but I need A LOT more practice.

 

[lumpkin]

Some of our neighbors decorated their garage and dressed up to give the kids candy. It was really well done and I wish my pictures were a little better, but three nights with 12 hours total sleep does not make for good photography.

 

[lumpkin]

Here''s a close up of part of their display.