Pumkin Mania

Halloween has come and gone and as many a year past, we carved up a number of pumkins this year. To make life just a little more interesting, we bought an extreme pumpkin carving book this year. You know, looking at the pictures it seems like the pumpkins should not be too difficult to carve.... Lets just say there is a reason the word extreme is in the title! :-)

This pumpkin is a template I found on the web and since Emma likes cats, it was a natural choice. The pumpkin came out quite nice and was certainly popular with our trick or treaters.

As I mentioned earlier, we picked up a new set of extreme carving templates. Being one that likes a challenge, I picked this template and went to it. A couple hours later it was done, doesn't look to bad I certainly need to refine my carving skills to get all the detail. Well, there is always next year!

Here are a couple of small pumkins we put in our tree just to add a little interest as people came up the stairs to our door. If you are looking for a way to get into pumpkin carving, I'd highly recommend the Pumpkin Masters books. They come in different collections several of which are good for beginners and they usually come with tools to help you with the carving.