Hey Amy!

Many of you have already carved pumpkins for the big holiday on Saturday.   I was a little distracted these last couple of weeks fighting the flu so it doesn’t appear I will be carving anything until this weekend.  If you are late like me, here are a few ideas for carving from Halloween past.

1.  Ernie.  I have a thing for Ernie of Sesame Street.  It all started a few years ago when my friend gave me an Ernie hand puppet he used in one of his films.  Actually, he was selling it at a yard sale and I thought that was a very bad thing.  Very bad.  I rescued the puppet from the pile of toys and brought him inside.  From then, it grew and grew until Ernie saturated my life.  One year I made a pumpkin in his image. I used a piece of black fur for his hair, a flickering battery operated candle to illuminate him and a few magic markers to complete the look.

2.  Men.  When he and I first started dating, it was in the fall of the year. He was suprrised I was carving pumpkins, saying he hadn’t done that since he was a little boy.  I decided to surprise him with a pumpkin of his own.  What face would be masculine and appropriate?  I figured it should be something he loved and not just any ole face so I carved what I thought was the logo for his favorite football team–the Indianapolis Colts.  This is a repeat offender every year in our home.

3.  Drill.  Get out your power drill and create this polka dot pumpkin.  On some holes, I drill completely through the pumpkin while on others I only drill in until the tip is piercing the flesh.  Then when you illuminate the pumpkins, different size streams of light will pour through the flesh.

4.  Minis.  Last but not least, I grab a handful of the small pumpkins to carve goofy things.  These two are examples of the silly.  One is a sly face with eyes looking sneeringly to the left (or maybe the right) and the other is covered with carvings of dollar bill signs.  It was a nod to the amount of money I had spent on pumpkins!

The suggestions I have here are merely to open your mind and get away from traditional faces.  They are fun but do a few others as well.  Many of you are very talented and do the serious Martha Stewart style carvings.  I wish I were that talented but am always pleased with my outcome.  Simply because I have fun doing it, and have a sense of pride each day coming home from work and seeing those beasts on the front porch.

Have you figured out what your last minute pumpkin may be?

xo-me

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