Halloween has always been big business in our house. Since I was a little girl, my mom hand made our costumes almost every year.
Following with that theme, pumpkins were a big deal in our house - and everyone pitched in to help.
In the early days, my brother and I could only be trusted to do guts removal.
But apparently, once you became a 10-year-old you were able to be trusted with those little orange knives.
Predictably, I chose the cuddly designs while my brother chose the scary designs. I think that trend carried through our entire childhood.
And then there was one legendary pumpkin - it had the neighbors runing for their cameras.
"Scary Caray."
(For those of you who didn't get the reference, that would be Harry Caray - of the Chicago Cubs). It's pretty clever, isn't it?
I felt the pressure this year to deliver something good... but let's be honest, creativity isn't my forte. One turned out good, one.... well, it was a good effort.
What do you think?
Ok, so I'm not exactly a pumpkin master... but they took a long time and I gave it my best shot. That's what counts, right?
Did you (or do you still) carve pumpkins? Do you use fancy carving kits or create your masterpiece freestyle??
P.S. The poor picture quality would be due to the fact that I took pictures of pictures. Oops.
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19 Classy Comments:
I love your pumpkins! We did carve a pumkin this year... in my opinon, it's just not halloween until I've carved a pumpkin! Sometimes we get really creative but this year we just carved an ole school jack-o-lantern!!
Lady, those are AWESOME!! I can barely do the dinky little triangle eyes!
Those are some great pumpkins!! This is the first year that the kids showed no interest in carving them. I kinda miss it, but I'm allergic to the "guts" so maybe it's not a big deal....
those are some awesome pumpkins. I use to paint pumpkins as a child and rarely ever carved them. Last year the boy and I carved pumpkins and it was a blast. We decided to keep the tradition and carve again this year. Even if mine look weird it was still so much fun!
You are a pro. I always do the silly faces. This will the first year I don't carve a pumpkin. Sad day.
ps pumpkin seeds are the best!
I love your pumpkins! I'm actually carving mine with my parents tonight, and I might steal one of your ideas!
You all do wonderful!!! I was lucky enough to get a letter on mine this year and even used a Sharpie to do it.:) XOXO
I think they look great! I have to carve one today with my preschoolers and I'm retarded at it. Oh well!!
Your pumpkins look AWESOME! So much better than I could have done believe me and I love the old photos of ya'll growing up too....I haven't carved a pumpkin in years, but I really want to!
My family used to carve pumpkins every year-- we created our own designs. I loved taking the seeds out and baking them! It's been too long since I last carved a pumpkin (3 years ago), which is here http://mindymerenghi.blogspot.com/2009/10/wordless-wednesday.html.
all the pumpkins are awesome!
your most recent ones turned out great!!
i haven't carved a pumpkin in at least 10 years.
I love pumpkin carving! I haven't carved one in a couple of years. Hopefully I can talk the husband into carving some tomorrow afternoon!
wow! those pumpkins look amazing!!
What adorable pumpkins! I want to carve one, but I probably won't have the energy to do it all this week. I'm afraid my dog would start eating the pumpkin anyway. :(
I love those pumpkins! I don't think my family is carving pumpkins this year and that makes me sad :(
Wow, those pumpkins are awesome!! I'm so impressed!
And aren't you just the cutest thing!! I will post some of my old costume pics if you will...I will feel weird if I'm the only one doing it! : )
Your pumpkins are fantastic. I carved one this year that had purple sparkle aviators. But then it rained, the purple paint disappeared, and my pumpkin ended up looking like a cyclops more than anything else. You win big time!
_Kat
You pumpkins look awesome! I am terrible with arts and crafts so I try and stay away as much as possible and admire from afar LOL
You pumpkins look awesome! I am terrible with arts and crafts so I try and stay away as much as possible and admire from afar LOL
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