Show your Pumpkins!

Deelady

Deelady

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Here is one I carved today....not bad for my first one since being a teen!! ;)
 

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Oh, Qsis.......... I'm dying to see what you do with a pumpkin this year! You are the best pumpkin artist I have ever seen!
 
Thanks FM :) I didn't want to make it scary for Aylas sake and she did get a big kick out of it! She sat right next to me the whole time I worked and laughed every time she noticed another facial feature come to life :)
 
Here you go the one I didn't do this year. But this one is great but then so are your's too. :mrgreen:
 

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Deelady said:
Thanks FM :) I didn't want to make it scary for Aylas sake and she did get a big kick out of it! She sat right next to me the whole time I worked and laughed every time she noticed another facial feature come to life :)
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Isn't it exciting! Next year or the year after, she can probably use a marker to draw the face on a little pumpkin and watch with delight as you "carve it to life"! This is the best stuff in life, isn't it?
 
OMG Joe that would scare my daughter for sure!!! lol it almost scared me! ;)

FM it does get moreand more fun each year :D We also bought her a small pumkin which she decorated with sticker eyes and mouths.....the whole entire pumpkin was covered in them lol but then I guess she decided she liked it better plain cause she then took them all off :) I was debating about carving that one as well.
 
Fisher's Mom said:
Isn't it exciting! Next year or the year after, she can probably use a marker to draw the face on a little pumpkin and watch with delight as you "carve it to life"! This is the best stuff in life, isn't it?
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They have pumpkin carving kits including patterns starting about $10 up. I used one 3 years ago with my grandkids. They had a ball doing them and we had pumpkin pies till we where all sick of them.
 
Deelady said:
I was debating about carving that one as well.
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Give her a washable marker and see if she can draw something on it that you could carve out. If not, you can just rinse it off and let her start again. Or maybe let her color the whole thing with crayons. I remember having quite a few "rainbow" pumpkins over the years.
 
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LOL my daughter just saw the pic of your pumpkin Joe and she said....." What is THAT?????"
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The guy that does those is remarkable and tell her it is the Preditor from the movies. She is probably a bit young to have seen it yet but wait she will eventually. :mrgreen:
 
Terrible twos eh, give her about 8 more years before you let her see it too. :shock:

Like FM said let her draw something then you cut it out for her. If she can't draw which at her age isn't bad, get the patterns and let her put them on the pumpkin and again you cut it out.
 
here are some pumpkins i carved last year

sorry for the extreme close-up i didn't take that pic.

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i carved the 2 on the floor of the deck, the one on the hay is ceramic

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We haven't done ours yet. It's typically too warm here through most of October, so if we cut them too early, they rot before Halloween. Talk about scary! :shock:

Tomorrow is supposed to be cooler, so maybe we'll do them then. Jack o'lanterns are looking good so far, though!
 
It took me eight hours to paint that wall!! It's one of the reasons I may never be able to sell this house. It would fall down if I took the wall with me!
 
Great job, Jay!

I have never done the thing with leaving a layer of thin flesh on - I like that a lot!

Lee
 
Thanks. It took like maybe 25-30 minutes. My first try doing a 3-D type jack o lantern too. It's pretty easy with wood carving tools. :mrgreen:
 
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