Pumpkin carvings
Stacey Docherty
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gargoyle........
what are you planning for this year ????
well as im sat looking at the mit im thinking of pumpkin carving for this year... i grow pumpkins so i can carve them(making delicious soup from the inards as well....) so show us yours... here are a few from years gone by that myself and my OH have carved
spooky trio
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Spooky. Woooh.
Is there nothing you can't do?
They are fab!
Mine all came to nothing (as usual), just fodder for the compost heap
Mine been rubbish last 3 yrs, but speaking of compost heap, that's where we grew ours our 1st yr here as we had no veg beds then or anywhere to grow em. We grew one at 4 stone! So that's where they're goung again next yr, and the sweetcorn.
As for the carving, any chance you could do templates, Stacey. For the ones I'll have to buy again this yr! I can't even draw a respectable stick man, and can't get my son to realise that we need to have bits inbetween the carving for it to hold up. As I can't draw, I can't explain it, either!
Gardenjeannie I will happily send you templates if I can find any of the above ones....I have to say we did 5 one year and had a team of 4 people hollowing and helping with the carving......... ( this was b4 lo) and it did invol e lots of wine....
They look amazing
I was looking at one of my groups on facebook, and someone used a drill to carve their pumpkins. I was thinking of using small ones in this way to make a little line of night lights.
My all-time favourite pumpkin design has to be the one that looks like it's had a very nasty tummy bug lol
Lol love it Emma..... We use scalpels and pumpkin carving tools ( yes they do exist) from the states.. Am gonna try doing an evening forkers one .......
Wow they are fantastic. I'll give the carving a miss, I'm rubbish at anything arty and I'd probably just end up with something looking like a blob with a ruddy great hole in the middle lol. And even if I did manage it, if I stuck a couple of those outside my front door at night and then went outside and came face to face so to speak I'd die of fright lol I'm such a wimp I'd scare myself, soo dark in my garden!
I so want to do this this year!