Happy Halloween

[Just Me]

We carved our Halloween Pumpkin tonight at the "Just Me's" household.



Thanks to Kansas Viking for the template. This was my first attempt at this type of thing....

[Kansas Viking]

Looks good my man!

[PurpleMustReign]

NICE!!!

[thatguy]

Good stuff man. Wish I could carve like that.

[vikingman]

That's great.

[Samkon35]

your pumpkin fuu is impressive

[Minniman]

Good Karma man!

In any case, it should scare away Packers fans.

[Just Me]

Thanks for all the kind comments!

[cstelter]

OK, so this inspired me. Here is another one of Kansas Viking's templates come to life:

[Just Me]

OK, so this inspired me. Here is another one of Kansas Viking's templates come to life:

Awesome! (No way could I do that - What did you use to do all the intricate work?)

[Vikefantam]

Wow. Those are great! I've been working so dang much overtime I haven't even made it to the store to get pumpkins. Hubby picked up some candy, though. I hope there's some left tonight, LOL. Thank Heaven for a high metabolism.

[cstelter]

What did you use to do all the intricate work?

My wife bought a pumpkin carving kit or two of the past 3-5 years. They all come with something of a sawblade, kind of like a coping saw blade, but sturdier and single ended so that you can kind of saw your way along a line. The one I used was about 1/8" wide and 2.5" log and thin enough to do the detailed work.

One of the kits came with a gizmo that was kind of like a 1/4 circle with spikes on the end. I took the template and blew it up to the size that would fit the pumpkin (it was a pretty big pumpkin, about 1.5' - 2' tall-- I can't imagine carving that much smaller though). Then I sprayed the back of the template with some spray-on glue (Kind of ends up as sticky as post-it-note glue). I stuck it on the pumpkin as best I could and then used the gizmo kind of draw dotted lines all over the pumpkin. Then I took the template off and basically did a big connect the dot thing with a tiny saw.

I think it took over 2 hours. But it was fun.

[SarasotaViking]

I hate this holiday. I'm going to be standing around in my silly costume all night thinking about the game.