Wednesday, October 29, 2008
It's a Noggin Halloween!
Last night we continued one of our favorite holiday competitions...I mean traditions :) Mr. E and I started carving pumpkins our first year dating and have been carving them ever since. We have started to get a little bit competitive with our designs and they have gotten better and better each year. Back in the early years we made the common jack o 'lantern with triangle eyes and nose and a goofy grin. Then we started with easy patterns that were given in the pumpkin carving kit. And then we moved onto more difficult patterns that we got off the internet (for free of course). In order to do intricate designs you need pumpkin carving tools which we add to our collection every year after Halloween. We have fancy knifes and a huge pumpkin scraper. Well this year we decided to do carve designs that Little Lion would like and recognize. That would be Dora the Explorer and Moose A. Moose. Nickjr.com had patterns, but after looking at them, you'd have to have specific tools and be very careful to not break the pumpkin since it had such skinny cutouts. We were up for the challenge. I decided to make Dora. I thought hmmmm I'm going to tweak the stencil by making the cutouts bigger to allow more light through and it'd be harder to break the pumpkin. Mr. E said he had an idea and was going to try it the way it was given. I thought to myself, "Yes My pumpkin will be better than his!!!" Guess what Mr. E goes and gets??? His dremmel (sp) power tool!!!!! I think he cheated ;) Here are the final products.
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