Tonight, I did not cook with my current food obsession, but I had a different kind of fun with pumpkin. I decided to try my hand at pumpkin carving. I was intrigued by the idea of using craft pumpkins to avoid the mess of cleaning out a real pumpkin. I went to Michael's and picked out a craft pumpkin and the tools for carving. Then, I visited the PumpkinLady site that is full of fabulous pumpkin carving templates. Since dragonflies are one of my passions, I chose the dragonfly template. I taped the template to my pumpkin and used the tip of the carving knife to poke holes all along the outline of the dragonfly. Then I went to work carving! I thought the craft pumpkin would be easier to carve, but it felt just as thick and tough as a real pumpkin shell. It definitely takes a lot of arm work and patience. If I ever carve a pumpkin again, I will definitely choose to do it this way, because you can save the finished project for years.
19 comments:
BRILLIANT carvings!!
very pretty! i'm thinking of carving a blue pumpkin this year to mix it up a bit!
It came out great, I love it!
Craft pumpkin? I have never heard of those. Sounds like a fabulous idea though!
I used to be called pumpkin girl among my friends, since i love love love pumpkins!
but sometimes i have too much and my palm get yellow. do you have this problem too?
WOW very creative!!!!Looks great!
That is so cool! I am loving all of your pumpkin recipes.
There's an award for you on my blog. :-)
This is a GREAT idea...saves the pumpkins for eating!
That is an awesome pumpkin carving! Good job!
I LOVE dragonflies!
That is so beautiful!! =)
You're definitely in the fall mode, and you've got me excited for halloween now!
WOW...that's fantastic! I love carving pumpkins creatively, but you just don't see it too often (at least not done well). Amazing job!
thanks for visiting my blog Meg! that's really encouraging.
That's really cool. It's a dragonfly, and if I squint, it's a face kind of too :)
I love pumpkin carving and I did what you did a couple years ago: got the 'fake' pumpkin. But I never did carve it. I still work on the real pumpkins, but when I get done with a good one, I wish it didn't have to rot. Maybe I'll finally give this a try...
Wow! Meg this is amazing. I wouldn't trust myself within a foot of a carving knife. Can barely handle a proper knife as it is. This was your first attempt then?
wow - that looks amazing!
That's carved? That looks so perfect that I thought it was one of those plastic ones, excellent job!
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