I love carving pumpkins! It's probably my favorite thing about Halloween. Luckily, Justin enjoys it too. I always look forward to it as a challenge of my artistic ability. I pride myself on cool pumpkins, but this year I need a bit of help deciding what I should do!
These are our last year's pumpkins. Can you guess which one is mine? (Hint: Justin thinks it's hilarious to put drool/vomit on his each year) My brother Tommy was here visiting last year, so that accounts for the third pumpkin.
Here's a few ideas I pulled off marthastewart.com. Please vote in the comments for your favorite!
I love this haunted house idea! Especially the ghouls and bats in the window. How cute!
This might just be my favorite, but don't let that bias you! I love fall leaves, and this is just beautiful to me. I don't really like the creepy part of Halloween, so I love things like this that are more fall, harvest, just pretty, etc.
I've actually done this pumpkin before when I lived at home. It was super easy to get perfect circles because I used an apple corer! I believe that was my mom's idea... She's so smart. Anyway, this one is just so fun, it's hard not to want to make it again. And I have a beautiful white pumpkin, which would be perfect...
In my opinion, this is by far the cutest! The problem is that it's not much of an adventure. Triangles, a circle, and a carrot. Kind of not as much fun as I'm looking for. But so dang cute, and original too. I love how these each have different eye shapes- it makes them each look like a cute little pumpkin person! (Ok. maybe that's weird.)
So, any opinions? PLEASE tell me! It's so hard to decide. Or, if you have any other cute ideas/pictures, let me know! A pumpkin carving tip: The best tool you can use to scrape away the skin, but leave the flesh for that translucent "glow through" effect that is so cool is a citrus zester! It makes shaving away "just enough" so easy!!! And its easy to control in your hand for "precise" work. Just thought I'd pass that along...
3 comments:
I think I like the little spooky town the best. I especially like the little gabled windows and the stacked pumpkins.
Where in the world did you find a white pumpkin? I've been looking for one at every store I go to!
Thanks for the counter tip. I'm excited to see how it goes!
I like the haunted house the best. It's very cute. That brought back memories of three years ago when I came out to visit and we carved pumpkins together. You did a really cool sun that year. Can't wait to see how it turns out!
Who says you have to chose one? Definately a house, definately the one with the carrot nose, and definately the leaves. The more the merrier! Remember how frightened sparky use to be of pumpkins???
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