Let the carving party begin!

Let the carving party start! I brought some pumpkins and my tools over to the Johnson's house for a little carving fun.

Liz, a fellow carver.

Cam.

Beak.

I chose to do Michael Jackson from Thriller. Here I am transfering my pattern to the pumpkin.

Liz chose a saucy little cat with a monacle.

Here's MJ all transferred. After peeling off the paper, I connected all of the dots with a pen. The lines will be scratched into the pumpkin. The dark parts will be carved all the way through.

The scratching begins. And yes, that's the special tool from a previous post.

Cam is a die hard Bears fan. We couldn't find a pattern for her, so I printed off a picture of a Bears helmet and made her a pattern from that.

Beak's pumpkin.

Liz's cat. Beak helped her finish the bow tie.

Here's MJ, all done. Next step, light him up!

Thriller!

Mumkins

While picking pumpkins at the farm, Sue (my mother in law) and I saw a beheaded pumpkin. She looked at it and declared that it looked like a planter. She then had the most Martha like idea. Take a pumpkin, hollow it out, plop in a mum and BINGO, a mumkin! Genius.

Pumpkins

So I love to carve pumpkins. I always liked it as a kid, but as an adult I discovered a whole new way to carve. Last year I think I did at least 4-5 pumpkins. The following are the ones I remembered to take pictures of.

This is Edgar Allen Poe and his famous raven. Don't believe me? Keep going...


I'll be honest, I used a pattern. Still pretty cool though, right?


Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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