Friday, October 29, 2010

We rock out our pumpkins

We love to carve our pumpkins in this house. I try to stay out of it. Or I'll take over. So I am in charge drawing out the out line and the baking of the seeds and hubby helps with the carving.
Last year the girls didn't seem as interested so hubby and I did most of the work.
These are last years creations.
Dracula
The Grime Reaper
Me on my broom, oops I mean a Witch on her broom.
We never carved pumpkins when I was a kid.
Then when I moved out on my own at 16, I not only didn't have the funds for this but I lived in a basement apartment, so who would see it.
When hubby and I got married and rented a house I didn't even think of buying a pumpkin for Halloween. So what I did was make my own. It snowed that day, so I rolled a ball of snow, shaped it into a pumpkin and used food colouring to dye it. Then out of black paper, I constructed the face. I then rolled up a piece of green paper and used it as the stem. When hubby came home from work he said to me, so I see you picked up a pumpkin, LOL.
But he wasn't the only one who was fooled, as the kids came to the door for their treats, I heard the parents say, that's a neat pumpkin. It was the kids that replied, I think its made out of snow, LOL.
Well tonight we picked up our 3 pumpkins and are ready to carve them on Halloween. I wonder what they will be this year?

Today was a running around day. So nothing much happened. But tonight I started to clean up my scrap/craft room. Can you believe it took me over half an hour to clean up my desk. Yup, not lying. Maybe I should have kept that to myself?
I want to work on a mini with my Graphic 45 Alice in Wonderland Halloween paper. I love this paper and have been putting off cutting it up. So my plan is to make an album where you can see a lot of the paper. Maybe I should have got the 6x6 pad.
We will see what happens.

Hope you all had a good Friday and that your weekend is a creative one.

Tracy

13 comments:

  1. Those pumpkins are just stunning! Can't wait to see the creations for this Halloween! :)

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  2. Tracy,
    These pumpkins are AWESOME!!!! You should enter them in contests.
    Too cool
    Stacy

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  3. Awesome pumpkins, Tracy! Love the story about your snow pumpkin!

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  4. Wow, the pumpkins turned out great!!! We didn't do one this year :(

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  5. very creative pumpkins! I have checked out your DD too and it's great! it's such a great tool to record memories! Have fun carving tomorrow night!

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  6. Wow! Those are incredible. Can't wait to see this years designs.

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  7. have fun with the carving ... we don't do it... they tend to rot too quickly here!

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  8. I love these pumpkins! I can never manage anything more difficult than 2 triangles and a half circle.

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  9. Very nice! I used to be so into it. I carved my boy a really nice dragon one year. But this year...so far nothing. Older gal did one and we have one that still needs to be carved. I keep thinking of doing it...but I never do.

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  10. Love the witch! I wanted to do that one this year, but got out voted. Love the snow pumpkin idea - of course we don't get snow here, so I'm a little jealous

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  11. Awesome pumpkins! It only took you 30 minutes to clean your desk? I've managed to make that a half day job at times!

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  12. You made a pumpkin out of SNOW?!!! YOU, my dear, are CRAFTASTIC!!! Do you think you could turn garbage bags into money? $100 bills even? LOL!!!

    LOVE the carved pumpkins. You guys are UBER TALENTED!

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  13. I want to make a mini with the Graphic 45 Alice papers too...but am hesitant to cut them up! They are so cool! I can't wait to see what you come up with!

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