#47 - Carve a Pumpkin
Carving pumpkins when you have very little artistic ability is tough. I prefer to carve a pumpkin when I can tape a picture from a book onto the pumpkin and carve around it. The trouble with relying on this method is when the book isn't available. Our ward hosted a POD activity (FHE with 2 other wards) where we carved pumpkins along with a contest for the best design. I had no book to help me through this one.
With a little planning ahead I might have been able to produce a semi-decent pumpkin. Unfortunately there was no thought of what to carve until the pumpkin was in front me. I decided to keep things simple and just carve the word "BOO". A friend pulled up a picture on a cell phone for me to copy. Off I went creating my masterpiece! I completed my work of art and proudly showed it to the people at my table. They asked me why I had carved 1300 into my pumpkin. All I have to say is carving the letter B is hard! It was no real surprise when my pitiful 1300 pumpkin didn't win one of the coveted prize ribbons. I definitely deserved an A for effort.
Pumpkin carving round #2 wasn't quite so stressful. We had a family Halloween party at my brother Ryan's house in Logan. Along with dinner and some fun Halloween themed games, my nephews got to carve pumpkins. They have come a long way in the past year. At last years party, the adults ended up being the ones doing all the carving because they had chosen difficult pictures from the book. This year my nephews skipped over the book pictures and decided to create their own masterpieces. I was okay with this because I got to spend more time supervising while they did the actual carving portion. My only real job was to help clean out the pumpkin guts so the nephews could get to the fun part of the activity.
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| He was so proud of his tail!! |
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| Cutest guys around |
Lesson learned....I will not be quitting my day job to become a pumpkin carving professional or really for any job that requires artistic ability.
-Em
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