Getting ready for Halloween

[hellziggy]

I had to carve a pumpkin for CotP's Samhein celebration this Friday, and I decided to get overly ambitious and do two of them using the nifty pattern books that I picked up on clearance last year. The first one has carvings on the back too, specifically to generate a cool shadow.





Of course, I don't think I've actually carved a pumpkin since high school, maybe even junior high... And back then I didn't have to deal with cleaning out the pumpkin. That was a job for mom & dad, and I just had to carve.
I just have one thing to say about cleaning out pumpkin guts:
EWWWW!

I was so squicked out by it that I grabbed some rubber gloves to wear so I wouldn't have to actually touch it! But once they were gutted the carving wasn't so bad. I was actually impressed with how they came out, so I think I will enter one in the carving contest at work. Which of the two should I enter?

Comments

[lexiphanic.livejournal.com]

Those are cool!! I vote for the cat/rats one for the contest.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

me too! Gah, I need to get pumpkins for friday!

(you can put pumpkin in curry, it works really well...)

[alisgray.livejournal.com]

The shadow-casting idea is a really clever one. Nice job of execution, too. the picture doesn't suck, either!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Thanks guys!

[passaddhi.livejournal.com]

If they can see the shadow cast by the first one, enter it. There's a whole new dimension to it artistically.

Nice job!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd love to take credit for the idea, but I got it from a pattern book.

[herlife.livejournal.com]

Wow, impressive!
At least to me, I still haven't actually touched a real pumkin.

I will do it this year though, they're popping up in stores everywhere.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

If they have pumpkin carving kits you definitely want to get one to use instead of a knife. It was way easier.

[poipoipoi.livejournal.com]

wow, nice job!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

Very Effing cool!

[swnoble.livejournal.com]

The second is allot more work but I'm not sure what it represents.

Re: Very Effing cool!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

It's a wolf howling, and some trees with the moon behind them.