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I've been in the dark ages with no flickr site or anything forever, but no longer.

So now I can put up some of my and my wife's pumpkin carvings. We started carving in 2005, the first year we were in our house, as something fun to do. Sometimes we goofed and photo'd them late and they had already started to shrivel/rot, but they mostly look pretty good for our first carvings since doing simple jack o lanterns as little kids.

Hopefully we'll be finished with our pumpkins for this year tonight and I can post those too.

2005: (mine is Kakashi)

2006: (mine is Bowser)

2007: (mine is Charizard)

[edit]oh yea, p.s. other people post theirs!
[edit2: oops, I posted the kakashi picture I used to copy, not my own- forgive me it was 3 years ago]

I notice a definite theme of nerdery in yours.

Kakashi and Bowser are both awesomely done (and awesome on their own), but I don't quite see the Charizard...

Maxus wrote:but I don't quite see the Charizard...

It's in the classic pose:

And yeah, those are some kickass pumpkins.

Much thanks. It turns out my kakashi pumpkin is slightly less awesome than that. I started looking at it and thinking, how did my p.o.s. camera ever take such a good picture of it in the dark?

Then I scrounged through my photo-album more and discovered some less good pictures that were of *my* pumpkin, and not the one I used as inspiration for the pattern (i.e. I copied the pattern by hand). Many apologies there, it's been 3 years and when lit mine looked like that one in real life.

My process has been each year to look and see what other people have done, and then copy my favorite. I'm gonna do a much simpler Obama pumpkin this year (working on it right now actually).

My wife's is done, but I will wait to take photos of it until nightfall since that will probably look better.

The Charizard would be easier to see at a different angle than the photo was taken.

-Crissa

I see the spider and Bowser, not so much the rest.

I carved a 2chan emote.

( ﾟAﾟ)

Well this year I tried to do an Obama face, and it was hard since I have to get the proportions just right, and I suppose that I didn't. My wife's sun face pumpkin turned out way better.

Here's the fruit of this year's labors (and some alternate charizard view from the wayback machine).

As an Obama carved out of a pumpkin, that's fucking good. His jaw is a bit longer and less square though.

My sister found this via Stumbleupon. I think you might like it...

http://my.mmoabc.com/article/monster/39 ... l?login=no

Spoooooky thread necromancy!



It's that time of year again. Pumpkin carving time. We slacked off and hadn't carved for the past 2 years so I tried to get ambitious and do a Donald Trumpkin along with a couple Minions with mrs erik. In fact I was a overly ambitious because I screwed up the Trump one when the small fragile pieces broke off. I briefly toyed with the idea of trying a new design on the back of that pumpkin, but since it was the 11th hour (5 pm on Halloween) I scrubbed that pumpkin and we just went with the two minion themed ones.

Probably for the best since I had a 100% success rate for a pumpkin of real people running for office getting elected.


(mine is on the left, mrs erik carved the right)

I did these two for my girls two years ago: Oogie Boogie and Elmo.

Oh, hey! I've got my Halloween pics on flickr. My son chose both designs, but I carved the hollow-weenie, and he worked on the creeper with help from Ess.

you might knot know this but tickld.com had an entire pumpkin carving competition. pretty awesome stuff there.