Friday, October 29, 2010

The best thing about October?

Pumpkin Guts!
I love the way a pumpkin's insides feel and being a tactile person, well, it just doesn't feel like Halloween without a pumpkin. I'm pretty sure when I was younger, putting on grandpa's shirts and pushing up the sleeves to get my hands dirty was all I wanted to do. I didn't want to carve, it got boring, and eventually I'd pass the task off to either mom or grandpa. 

It actually got to the point where mom gave me an ultimatum, "If you can't finish the carving on your own, you don't get a pumpkin."

My skills and patience have improved with time. This year, I carved two pumpkins. 

I give you the Dark Mark. (Gasp! Scream!) Yeah, Voldemort's been to my house this year. Run away little kids! (And leave me all the candy!)
If a death inside my house isn't enough to scare you off, I've got a werewolf who is willing to bite you! (Go away silly fangirls - it isn't Jacob Black!) Professor Lupin will apologize come November, he isn't himself at the moment.
The wolf was a lot easier because I didn't have to make up my own pattern. I also hollowed it out better so I didn't break two carving tools like I did with Voldemort's dark mark.

Here's a picture with my pumpkins and the two Ramona did as well. What a happy pumpkin family.



Now, as for yesterday:

Technically, both the facts I gave you were truths... (so that was a little bit of a hidden trick) but only one was my truth ----

T(1): I'm obviously good enough to eat because I've been stabbed with both a fork and a knife. --- Yup, kitchen utensils just can't seem to keep their pointed ends off of me! I must be a treat.

T(2): I can't tell the difference between wood and flesh because I almost chopped my finger off with an Axe (had to go to the hospital and everything!). ------ this happened to mom - fear not, friends, her finger was saved and she still has all ten digits!

Thanks again for playing!

Have you carved any pumpkins? What's your favorite part of Halloween?

40 comments:

  1. I adore the first photograph. And that werewolf pumpkin is awesome.

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  2. My God, you'e a professional! I loved pumpkin guts, too.

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  3. Shut UP with those pumpkins! You rock girl!

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  4. Wow, wow, and holy wow! You girl, are talented!

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  5. all four of those jacks were AWESOME!!! :)

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  6. Those pumpkins are absolutely incredible? How on earth did you do that? And I love the first picture--that's definitely the facial expression I make when scooping out pumpkin guts :)

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  7. Fantastic pumpkins! I love squishing the mushy bits and the seeds together too. LOL. I'm looking forward to doing this tonight. Should be fun! Happy Halloween!!

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  8. I love carving pumpkins!!! When I was young my cousins and I would get together at one of our aunt's house every year and carve pumpkins. So much fun!!!

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  9. Great pumpkins! And I knew #1 was the winner.'
    I carved a headless horseman once.

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  10. Amazing pumpkins!!!

    Going to do my second one today or tomorrow. The first, I kinda broke...3x. and broke one of those stupid tools. Oh well!

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  11. An artist and a writer? Not fair! Fantastic carvings :-)

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  12. Oh my gosh, I adore both of your pumpkins, and I love your choice of werewolf. Gotta love Moony!

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  13. Hi there! Great pumpkins. I remember one year we had 10 jack-o-lanterns on our porch. Now the kids have their own places and our lone pumpkin looks kind of lonely. Great memories!!

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  14. Those pumpkins look great! We haven't carved any yet - probably tomorrow. My favorite part of Halloween is the trick-or-treaters, of course! :-)

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  15. Wow! Those pumpkins are amazing! Mine NEVER look like that. And I always finished mine as a kid. Determination apparently got me nothing!

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  16. Sweet photograph! Have you ever baked the pumpkins seens? They taste delicious.

    It's interesting you say your a tactile person but also a bit accident prone when it comes to kitchen untensils. You remind me of me. I haven't lost any finger parts but sharp knives are banned in my house. Too great a risk of me severing something (accidentally, of course).

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  17. I meant pumpkins 'seeds' in the first line. LOL.

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  18. Melissa - Those are AWESOME!!! So talented. Glad to know mom had her finger saved and that you're okay too. LOL Have a great Halloween. =D

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  19. Wow, can I hire you to do mine? I can't do anything but a smiling face. I love the Dark Mark one!

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  20. That's skill right there, great work.

    I'll miss october... good bye to me favorite month.

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  21. That first photo is great and I'm super impressed with the wolf pumpkin. My daughter wanted a cat- she's kind of obsessed with them right now.

    Happy Halloween!

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  22. Those are amazing carvings! I am horrible at pumpkin carving, and I hate the mess. But you seem like you were born for it. LOL! If there is such a thing.
    WOW... now that's some pumpkin talent!

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  23. My friend, Hallie, carved the wolf head on her pumpkin. I showed mercy to pumpkins everywhere and refrained! Have a great Halloween!

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  24. Yeah, I've never carved a pumpkin before. We might this year though!

    Yours are SUPER COOL, btw! I LOVE the Dark Mark one! My sister was going to be a Death Eater for Halloween (I do like drawing the Dark Mark on her), but I maintain she is one most of the year or at least, she's a born Slytherin (and she did that 1 year). So she went with something less obvious. Haha.

    The wolf is cool too. I love wolves, and I absolutely adore Prof. Lupin. <3

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  25. Clearly… instead of passing off your pumpkin to your mom or your grandpa when you were younger, you should have used your time wisely and practiced a lot more. Unfortunately your pumpkins do not compare to the other two.

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  26. wow who's are those two pumpkins there, the goofy and pedifile. They are smoking! haha only kidding! yours are amazing!! Also the post before this was a joke (see if you can guess who). Hint, it was not me. :)

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  27. They're amazing! Halloween's not as big here in Australia, so one of my favourite things is seeing how the Americans celebrate it. Thanks for sharing!

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  28. Great carving, Melissa. I've just got back from work to see what my kids have been up to. Will have to take some snaps and post them too...let's have an online carving competition!

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  29. Those are so awesome! My pumpkins are always so vanilla. Can you come do mine?
    ;)

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  30. These are awesome! I love the Dark Mark one!

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  31. Your pumpkins are awesome, but EWWW sticking your hands inside them. We always use a spoon. I'm not into slimey....

    Have a wonderful Halloween!

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  32. I will not be carving pumpkins tomorrow as planned after looking at the GORGEOUS ones done by you. Those are A-mazing!

    I loved pulling the guts out when I was younger. Now, I love toasting them and eating them!!!

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  33. Wonderful pumpkins and great pictures!!!

    I love getting the pumpkin guts out, and separating the seeds from the slime.

    We'll be carving ours today, and toasting seeds tomorrow.

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  34. Made the mistake of showing your pumpkins to my kids - they are going to be really disappointed with ours...

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  35. Happy Halloween :) Nice to meet you too!

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  36. Seriously, I am amazed by your mad carving skillz. I'm officially not artistic, so seeing stuff like that makes me feel all awe-struck and stuff. I loved #1 especially.

    Thanks so much for dropping by my blog! Yours seems really fun. Consider yourself followed by The Weed ;-)

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  37. oh wow they are so awesome! I've never seen pumpkins like that before (Australia doesn't really celebrate Halloween in the same way. The most we do is maybe use it as an excuse for a party or to watch scary movies). I've never done the pumpkin thing or the trick or treat thing.

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  38. Those pumpkins are awesome and Ramona is so cute. Great job! Hope you had a great Halloween (sounds scary)! :D

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  39. Hi! I'm a new follower. I've never met anyone else that likes pumpkin guts, so I'm stoked right off the bat. I love your HP designs, too! Pop on by my blog sometime if you'd like.

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