pumpkin carving

saturday
30 october

i discovered i'm a bit of an elitist. sad. didn't think i was. but here's the one instance i will be an elitist. i will not carve a pumpkin in the future without one of those little pumpkin carving knives (preferably with the double sided action). because i found that using regular knives was hard, obnoxious, and you can't get good details or curved lines really. so anyway, i'll own up to being a pumpkin carving elitist.

give me the little orange pumpkin knife.

so i attempted to carve a skull with eyepatch and crossbones. about two knife motions in, the 'eye patch string' was sliced off unintentionally because apparently the knife couldn't handle that. boo. and those bones were a bit tricky. i did manage to add headphones and an mp3 player for him with carving off the skin but not all the way through (didn't think that was going to be easy, but it was alright).

also had to break off a piece of a chopstick (yeah, no toothpicks around) to support his eye patch, eye socket, and nose which were okay but shortlived. chopsticks are also way thicker than toothpicks. i might add those to my elitist demands.

sadly we also realized that we didn't have tealight candles to light our pumpkins. however i took the two birthday candles i still had after brittany blew them out from her cake and stuck one in each pumpkin. so we at least got to see them lit up for the life span of a birthday candle. oh also we discovered we didnt have a lighter so those were lit using the gas stove. awesome improvisation throughout this whole process.

we did, though, achieve making some pretty tasty pumpkin seeds. in fact i may eat some now.

30 october photos:










31 october lit by birthday candles pumpkin photos: