Getting into the ’spirit’ of things
October 24th, 2006 by jennemede
Pardon the pun. Or don’t!
Meet Jack. And his friend, Boo (look reeeaaallly hard for the ghost-shape).
Our first home-carved pumpkins.
They met today. And already getting along famously.
It’s going to be an interesting Oct 31st this year!
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October 25th, 2006 at 4:43 am
was it difficult to carve? how long does it last and will it rot/smell after a while? we wanted to do but can hardly find any smaller ones anymore. u had to trace it out?
October 25th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Actually it’s just HARD work, not difficult work.
They sell pumpkin carving kits, i’m sure u’ve seen them (about $5?). They come with small, long serrated knives that are easy to manipulate.
Make sure u buy CARVING pumpkins aka the ones they sell by the loads outside supermarkets. Buy a big onelah, small one hard to carvelah can’t hold properly.
You draw the stencil with a black marker. I bought the kit which came with some stencils which u can cut out, paste on the pumpkin and start carving!
October 25th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
Hey congratulations on moving in! Looks fabulously ‘homely’
What are the girls going to dress as? Buy lotsa candy from Costco and you’re all set.
TC - make sure you don’t make the cap/cover too small. Otherwise when the pumpkin starts to shrivel up, the cap falls inside! It happened to our neighbor.
October 26th, 2006 at 6:00 am
Boy, they look scary. hehehehe…. Happy Halloween! Make sure you get lots and lots of candies. I remember one year while we were staying in Toronto, we ran out of candies. Next day, there were raw eggs splattered on our car
October 27th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
Some of my friends collected the seeds and roasted them…. atae them like kuaci.
October 28th, 2006 at 11:51 am
Actually pumpkin seeds = kuaci putih, the very same ones we munched on in cinemas in days of yore hehe. I was SO very pleasantly surprised