Tuesday, October 30, 2007

My First Pumpkin

The kitchen staff (so that includes me :) ) at work were offered 2 free pints to carve a pumpkin for Halloween.

Never having carved one before I didn't know what to do so had a thought and came up with this idea and quickly mocked it up on the computer just before I had to leave:


I didn't know where to start carving so after copying my design roughly onto the pumpkin I started with the person first.


I think it turned out reasonably well for my first one, and it was definitely worth the free pints :).

Happy Halloween.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey that looks great! Doesn't look like a first time carving too.

Susie said...

That looks really nice! Good thing you don't have to carve pumpkins in Finland, I wouldn't be able to anything close to that. :)

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Dawn Drover said...

Are you sure you never carved a pumpkin before???? I've been doing it all my life and I'm still an amateur!
Your's is awesome!
PS: will attempt the show yourself meme tomorrow! I've been hiding and trying to decide whether or not come out of the closet! LOL

Anonymous said...

I carved a carrot into a shrunken voodoo head about 3 weeks ago :) that was my first intoduction to carving!!

Thanks for the compliment, I had loads of messy fun doing it!

Thanks for carrying on the meme :). I have you in my Google reader so i'll come over ad comment when it's up.

Anonymous said...

WOW! That's really good! I think carving pumpkins is hard and I do whatever I can to get out of it. You did a nice job and deserve those pints.

Anonymous said...

Thanks Lynn :)

All these compliments are giving me a big head. In fact it's almost pumpkin sized right now!

Anonymous said...

For your first pumpkin, This is real good and artistic! :) Love it!

Anonymous said...

Dude, you're first carving? No. Way. That's pretty cool. :)

Forest Parks said...

Thanks :) Bush even gave me some link love for it :)

Beth Ellen said...

Impressive. :) Pumpkin carving like you never imagined.