Carving Pumpkins
So my mom picked up one of those little pumpkin carving kits and my brother and I decided to give it a whirl since we haven’t carved pumpkins in a few years. So I was out running some errands the Saturday before Halloween and decided to swing by to the pumpkin patch to pick a couple up. And being me I got a couple of decently large ones.
The following Sunday we sat down to carve them. My brother went with a pattern from the kit called AI Face. I used one I had found on the internet of the linux mascot tux.
Beginning to carve
Its slimy and gross in there
Yes the tongue helps
Me scraping my pumpkin
My brother doing some carving
My brother getting help from dad
My brother's pumpkin lit up
The way mine turned out
My brothers looked awesome when it was lit up. As you can see on mine I carved out the middle but then scrapped down the feet and beak areas. Scraping a pumpkin, just so you know, is insanely difficult. I ended up using an X-acto knife to help. I was hoping the effect would be something like a glow through the part of the pumpkin that was still there. It kinda worked but not as well as I had hoped. Oh well it still looked cool and was fun to do.
btw. Blogging pics with wordpress is kinda a pain. I need to get gallery2 setup and hooked into this thing.
I made a StrongBad one a couple of years ago that was similar to your brothers. Turned out really cool.
Had to use a dremel to get the intricate parts though.
And what version of WP are you using? Inserting pics into my blog is super easy.
Kevin Thanks for sharing your link…I really love seeing what people are doing outside of work. I also liked your choice of subjects to carve…very cute. I loved the pics as well.
@benjam Its the latest version of WP. The image uploading isn’t bad, its just too simplistic for me. Like I wanted to do some resizing. Then I prefer images to load in something like lightbox so I had to add that. Things like that.