My pumpkin before carving. I carved while listening to as many classic Halloween songs as I could find on YouTube. Then I had to clean finger prints off of my phone. It’s funny how I always forget about the smell of a pumpkin. You smell it as soon as you make the first cut. It was instantly nostalgic to me and took me back to a very early memory of probably one of my first jack-o-lanterns at our first house when I was very young. We had an enclosed front porch with an old door with a window , that led to the kitchen. For some reason our jack-o-lantern was inside that front porch, rather than outside. I remember sitting and watching through the window as the jack-o-lantern flickered and glowed.
This year we broke tradition and I carved Joe’s pumpkin as well. I tried to go for something different… something with a sinister look in the eyes and not quite so chipper. (Ahem… this punkin’ head is not meant to be a representation of Joe.)
I like how my punkin’ head on the right seems to be eyeballing Joe’s pumpkin. Don’t look too close. The one on the left is being illuminated by a sparkly Christmas candle.
Once again, the sparkly Christmas candle seems to be highlighted in the photo.
This is usually Meril’s signature jack-o-lantern look. Joe helped him. I think it gets bigger every year.
We have a plethora of various pumpkin carving tools from mostly cheap sets by “Pumpkin Masters”. We purchased a rather expensive set online last year. I found that this $10 set from Target is just as good or better than any of them. I recommend it!
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October 26th, 2013 at 9:46 am
My pumpkins always suck! They’re not jack-o-lanterns – the become abused fruit! Or vegetables… I dunno, but I’m terrible at it. Moral? Don’t let old hippies brandish knives.
October 27th, 2013 at 12:42 am
Ohhhhhhhh Randall. Actually, I don’t have confidence in my pumpkin carving skills at all. I was really nervous when Joe told me I could carve his. I was like… “but there’s pressure to make it good because this is going to be a blog post!” Of course, if you remember Joe’s pumpkin from last year, his jack-o-lantern was simply a “bar code”. 🙂 I’m still not sure about that one.
October 26th, 2013 at 10:27 am
Yes, the way the sweet pumpkin is looking at the dangerous one is adorable. Even pumpkins like bad boys.
October 27th, 2013 at 12:40 am
Ha! Funny. My sweet pumpkin has been blowing out early the last couple of nights while the bad boy pumpkin burns on.