Last year, my cousin Kassandra asked me if I wanted to carve pumpkins cuz she had a bunch that randomly grew in her garden. How did they grow randomly? Well the year before, after carving pumpkins she threw the guts in her garden and the next autumn, pumpkins galore! I wasn't that thrilled at carving pumpkins or was really all that good at it. But nonetheless, we carved pumpkins that night, until about 4 in the morning when we realized that we didn't have any candles to light them up with. So that resulted in an impromptu trip to WalMart, which is the best time of day to go into WalMart. Since it was Halloween Weekend, we decided to wear wigs. So I wore a mullet wig and she wore a long haired blue wig. The looks were priceless, not to mention the fact that we saw a creepy looking person who was dressed up for Halloween but the way they were made us know that this is what that person dressed up as every day. Oh the people of WalMart...
I thought my pumpkins turned out pretty awesome! I did a new technique of scraping off the top layer of the pumpkin and it's now my favorite thing to do when carving pumpkins!
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| Nilla Almond! |
My first attempt was to carve my dog Nilla. She was a yellow lab. It's not perfect but it is pretty cool. I was proud of myself. I don't remember the rest of the order, but they were also pretty cool. Not perfect, cuz I'm not an artist by any means, but pretty good for an amateur.
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| From Left: Witch, Bat over the Moon, Nilla, RIP & another Bat |
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| Close Up of the Headstone and a bat flying over the Full Moon. The Bat pumpkin is green so it looked really cool in the light. The moon is pale because it was scraped, not carved. |
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The scraping is really cool but kinda hard to capture on camera. It probably has to do with the fact that I'm not a very good photographer. This years pumpkins are still in the making, I have carved 5 so far. When I am finished with them all I will share my handiwork! It was fun to bring up some old memories!
