3 posts tagged “pumpkin carving”

This is the first time i've ever carved pumpkins on Halloween. We have just been so busy this past week, there was never time. But with Halloween being on a Saturday it was something fun today in the afternoon before trick or treating. Daniel and i really enjoy the art of carving pumpkins and get really into making new and differnt designs each year, you will rarely see a regular old jack o lantern at our house. This year we each carved one pumpkin and then we did one together.

Sienna also got to have some fun with painting her little pumpkins and helping Daniel and I with our family pumpkin. It was a great afternoon getting our hands dirty and coming up with fun ideas. I ended up doing a pumpkin carving of five different jack o lanterns inside of another pumpkin, it turned out really cool. Daniel did a super awesome tribute to Pack Man. And together the three of us got to use power tools to create one pumpkin covered in holes!

We had a great time eating monkey much and carving up some pumpkins. I hope you had a great Halloween afternoon!

After everyone had left from our little pumpkin party, Daniel and started work on our pumpkins. We really get into it and try to do different and harder things each year. This year i went out and bought a wood carving kit, which had some great tools to make carving a little easier. This year Daniel worked really hard on a three dimensional face and I worked on doing some intricate design work on my pumpkin. We also both carved traditional Jack O Lanterns. I so

enjoyed doing something a little different this year and learning that i can do some of the harder stuff. We have four really cool pumpkins that we are proud of. Too bad we won't get any trick or treater's where we live. We are thinking about taking over to my sisters house on Halloween so people can appreciate them hehe!

So I want to encouarge all of you to get out there and look online and print some stencils and by some carving tools. Because it fun and not as hard as you would think. Plus you end up with some pretty awesome pumpkins.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Last night we had my sister Dawn and her family over to carve pumpkins. Daniel and I love carving pumpkins and have a great time doing it. So we thought my nieces Kaitlin and Sarah would enjoy carving pumpkins with us. So we got a bunch of pumpkins and Sienna and I made a big batch of rice crispy treats. It was fun having them over, the girls got really into drawing on their pumpkins and then carving them. However Dawn did end up carving most of Kaitlin's out, but Sarah did a great job and stuck with it.

Sienna loved having the girls over they got to play together and Sienna got to paint a pumpkin while the big girls got to carve theirs. She was so happy to be a part of what everyone was doing. I hope that we can make this a family tradition, having people come over and carve pumpkins. It just made the time more fun and more special. So get out there and buy your pumpkins and get carving, because Halloween is tomorrow!