Sat Oct 08, 2016 2:17 pm
#96781
Hello everyone!
So I've been using ZP patterns since the very first year then joined on the forum a couple of years later, but I"m not sure I've ever done a personal introduction. Hmm, maybe? Anyway...
I've been carving for about 14 years, and every year I try to improve my carving skills. I give about 4-5 carving demos and workshops a year using ZP designs as my front runner. Last year I had a woman from Asia who had NEVER carved a pumpkin before in one of my classes and that was extremely cool to coach her through her first.
When I'm not carving, I work as a literacy teacher in an elementary school teaching at risk children to read, and I also spend my evenings doing theatre work creating and designing props and stage managing local shows. This summer has been an especially challenging one as I lost a very close family member in an extremely tragic way and two of my children (I have 5) have had some very serious trials themselves. I am really looking forward to and needing some good carving this season as my catharsis.
Thank you, Ryan for this wonderful place!
Some of my favorite pumpkins from last year:
Note the seven apples representing the dwarves:
One pumpkin lasted until New Years:
One for my son:
A Rumplestiltskin (from Once Upon A Time) pumpkin I created but the pumpkin was going soft by the time I was able to carve it. It looks unfinished because I was literally holding the back of the pumpkin together with duct tape where it had started to split. So this is as far as I got.
Happy carving everyone!
So I've been using ZP patterns since the very first year then joined on the forum a couple of years later, but I"m not sure I've ever done a personal introduction. Hmm, maybe? Anyway...
I've been carving for about 14 years, and every year I try to improve my carving skills. I give about 4-5 carving demos and workshops a year using ZP designs as my front runner. Last year I had a woman from Asia who had NEVER carved a pumpkin before in one of my classes and that was extremely cool to coach her through her first.
When I'm not carving, I work as a literacy teacher in an elementary school teaching at risk children to read, and I also spend my evenings doing theatre work creating and designing props and stage managing local shows. This summer has been an especially challenging one as I lost a very close family member in an extremely tragic way and two of my children (I have 5) have had some very serious trials themselves. I am really looking forward to and needing some good carving this season as my catharsis.
Thank you, Ryan for this wonderful place!
Some of my favorite pumpkins from last year:
Note the seven apples representing the dwarves:
One pumpkin lasted until New Years:
One for my son:
A Rumplestiltskin (from Once Upon A Time) pumpkin I created but the pumpkin was going soft by the time I was able to carve it. It looks unfinished because I was literally holding the back of the pumpkin together with duct tape where it had started to split. So this is as far as I got.
Happy carving everyone!
"Obi-wan never told you what happened to your pumpkins."
"He told me enough, he told me *you* carved them!!"
"He told me enough, he told me *you* carved them!!"