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.