We Carved
Growing up I didn’t carve too many pumpkins so as an adult I have always sucked at it. I blame it on lack of experience and the fact that my brain has a hard time seeing the negative space. Kristin, on the other hand, is pretty dang good at it. She’s always had a way better pumpkin than me.
This year I decided to cheat a little and get one of those stencil things that tells you what parts to cut out and takes care of the whole “negative space” thing. Cooper and I chose the pirate one. That’s right. It’s not death or poison or anything gross or scary. It’s a pirate pumpkin. The teeth were pretty tough but I think it managed to turn out okay.
Kristin and Aiden chose the spider one. Again, not because it’s scary, but because the bug guy killed all the spiders at our house and we were missing the ones that once covered our front porch. Now for the next couple weeks our porch can have a spider living on it agian.
Blue went with the traditional. Triangle eyes, round ears, sharp teeth and arm holding a sword style. And if you look close you can see that this traditional triangle eyed pumpkin has eyelashes that a woman would die for. Since I will be in Virginia on Halloween it was fun to have a little bit of that with the kids tonight. And tomorrow? Roasted pumpkin seeds.
Do you carve?
cool pumpkins. Your right that stencil is cheating but very nice. I am glad you got to explore your inner pumpkin.
My wife likes to paint on the pumpkins, for one reason, the pumpkin lasts a little longer not having it’s guts removed, and secondly because she’s pretty good at. Last year it was 4 characters from “Shrek”. This year it’s “Beauty and the Beast”. Disney can be scary.
I suck at pumpkin carving too. Even with the stencils I suck. My two younger girls carve though. This year I had to buy pumpkins as ours did not grow. Last year they carved two from our garden that they were especially proud of growing and carving! This year, Mary had to weigh the pumpkin, see if it would float, measure the circumference, count the seeds, etc. All this data is to be compiled with other third grade pumpkin data for school. My 12 year old is going to carve a dragon scene on hers but hasn’t started yet.
impressive. even if you did cheat.
i hope to carve ours. wait. i hope brent will carve ours thursday.
We always carve and my tradition is pumpkin seeds. I have an awesome recipe that I blogged if you want to use it this time.
http://www.wheresmydamnanswer.com/WP02/?p=888
Very nice punkins Brody.
We have always carved pumpkins in my family.
Each of us – my dad, mom, sister, and I would do one.
Dad’s was always the best, and an original “Brad” design (usually having something to do with Texas).
Now, I carve with my four kiddos. It’s fun and full of memories.
The only thing that’s not fun is being the only adult to scoop the goop, help cut, and clean up. That is a lot of work with five pumpkins.
Pumpkin seeds are the best! I love carving pumpkins, but have mostly used the cheat sheets because I don’t find myself to be an artist in any capacity.
I can only remember one time when I was growing up when we carved pumpkins. All I remember was it was slimy and gross.