Do the best pumpkin carving 43Things has ever seen

It’s getting pretty late in October!

I’m trying to find some patterns to crave into pumpkins….

Pumpkin Carving Tips

Pattern Idea One

Idea 2

Idea 3

Wow! Great job everyone!! Thanks for posting your pictures. I hope to see everyone here again next year. :)

Not “the best pumpkin carving ever,” but I think they look pretty cool. Actually “borrowed” this idea from my friend joemono.

This is supposed to be the first pattern I posted, with the grave and the trees and an owl.

The owl fell into the pumpkin. So he was transfered to the pile of guts for the puking pumpkin. Couldn’t get the branches to come out right. So now it’s just a moon and a grave. Stil kinda scary.

This is the Black Pearl…I can see it easier if my lights are off..

Zee puking pumpkin!

I have a dachsund, long hair.

He’s so cute…

This is a picture I found while searching pumpkin patterns/stencils.

Here’s the real pumpkin.

Okay, I have 3 really good pumpkins to carve this year.

My carvings are… the puking it’s guts out pumpkin {posted on previous entry}, this night scene pattern {picture is of the pattern, not actual pumpkin} and probably the Black Pearl from Pirates.

Cause I love that movie.

Thought I’d share this with my fellow carvers…

The legend of the Jack-O’-Lantern comes from Ireland from about the 18th century. With some variations the basis of the Jack-O’-Lantern is as follows:

There was a stingy drunkard of an Irishman named Jack; who tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree. Then Jack quickly cut the sign of a cross into the trunk of the tree; thereby preventing the Devil from climbing down. Jack made the Devil swear that he wouldn’t ever come after Jack’s soul again or claim it in any way. However, this did not stop Jack from dying and when he did he was not allowed into Heaven, because of his life of drinking, being tightfisted and being deceitful. And because of the oath the Devil had taken Jack was not allowed into Hell either. “But where can I go?” asked Jack. “Back where you came from!” replied the Devil. The way back was windy and dark. The Devil, as a final gesture, threw a live coal at Jack straight from the fire of Hell. To light his way and to keep it from blowing out in the wind Jack put it in a turnip he was eating. Ever since Jack and his “lantern” has been traveling over the face of the earth looking for a place to rest.

The moral of the story: Don’t mess with the devil.