For Halloween this year, James surprised me with two pumpkins! He bought them a week early, assuming the previous Thursday had been Halloween, but it gave us time at the weekend to carve them.
Every year we talk about carving pumpkins but had never done it. James’ friend usually carves a couple in nerdy fashion and we’re always impressed. This year was our turn.
I found a really great video on YouTube about how to carve the pumpkin. It was pretty straight forward, but time consuming.
We cut open the lid, adding a little notch in the back to make replacing the lid easier. Then we scooped out all the guts (James made pumpkin pie, that is it’s own awful story) and then printed off images we wanted to carve onto the pumpkin.
I went with Ghastly, the new Pokémon games come out soon so a spooky Pokémon seemed apt. James went with a Rick and Morty image, we’d just bought a loot box of Rick & Morty merch from Comic Con the day before, so again felt apt.
We taped the image to the pumpkin and using a pin dotted on our design. Then started cutting out some parts and carving a top layer off other parts. After we were done, we realise we needed to carve a lot more into the pumpkin to get the desired affect from the parts that weren’t completely cut. This took a long while, but when we tested them we were very pleased!
Here are the final results:
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