Sat Oct 13, 2007 4:40 pm
#9424
If I had some help, I might get more done. My boyfriend has never carved before but he loves the pumpkins I carve. I keep trying to convince him to carve so we'll see if he bites this year. Here's a kinda funny story: I think he was tramatized the one year I carved Shrek. I had given Shrek a bath, to plump him up before displaying him outside and I asked him to dry the inside of the pumpkin. Well, he wasn't very gentle and Shrek's face broke off
I didn't know what to say when it happened, I was sort of in shock but I was glad I had taken a picture of the results. Determined to display him, I had to do a little surgery on him (Shrek not my boyfriend) and he was ready to be displayed for the evening and was one of the crowd favorites.
Here's Shrek before:
After surgery with green glow sticks:
He was held together with toothpicks and paperclips
I usually carve 10-15 patterns every year, by myself. Just depends on how much the pumpkins cost and how many I can get through in 1 day. I carve for a whole day. Last year I had 1 pumpkin left over so I carved it in Nov. with a turkey pattern for Thanksgiving.CanadianCarver wrote:belli,
How many pumpkins are you carving this year? You have a total of 15 "to carve" and "in the running patterns". Just curious what the list would have to be narrowed down to.
If I had some help, I might get more done. My boyfriend has never carved before but he loves the pumpkins I carve. I keep trying to convince him to carve so we'll see if he bites this year. Here's a kinda funny story: I think he was tramatized the one year I carved Shrek. I had given Shrek a bath, to plump him up before displaying him outside and I asked him to dry the inside of the pumpkin. Well, he wasn't very gentle and Shrek's face broke off
I didn't know what to say when it happened, I was sort of in shock but I was glad I had taken a picture of the results. Determined to display him, I had to do a little surgery on him (Shrek not my boyfriend) and he was ready to be displayed for the evening and was one of the crowd favorites.Here's Shrek before:
After surgery with green glow sticks:
He was held together with toothpicks and paperclips
er... I mean dinner party is on the 29th. So I'm going to have all of the zombie ones ready by then and I'll carve some additional ones to put in the trees the next day. This is my first year to grab a bunch of the foam pumpkins, so I'll have to figure out which ones will be immortalized in foam.