My First Pumpkin

By Forest · October 30, 2007 · 10 Comments · Categories: Uncategorized ·

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The kitchen staff (so that includes me ) at work were offered 2 free pints to carve a pumpkin for Halloween.

Never having carved one before I didn’t know what to do so had a thought and came up with this idea and quickly mocked it up on the computer just before I had to leave:

I didn’t know where to start carving so after copying my design roughly onto the pumpkin I started with the person first.

I think it turned out reasonably well for my first one, and it was definitely worth the free pints .

Happy Halloween.

Tagged: art carving, original desgn carving, pumpkin carving

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My name is Forest, I have been blogging and reading blogs for around 3 years now. The Random Forest was originally my daily diary but it evolved into much more than that and is now a daily multiple author blog of interesting and random news posts. You can also find me blogging about frugality and sustainable living over at my blog Frugal Zeitgeist.

10 Comments

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   Brown Baron says:

   October 31, 2007 at 9:27 pm

   Hey that looks great! Doesn’t look like a first time carving too.

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   Susie says:

   October 31, 2007 at 11:39 pm

   That looks really nice! Good thing you don’t have to carve pumpkins in Finland, I wouldn’t be able to anything close to that.

   Thanks for visiting my blog!

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   Dawn says:

   November 1, 2007 at 10:47 am

   Are you sure you never carved a pumpkin before???? I’ve been doing it all my life and I’m still an amateur!
   Your’s is awesome!
   PS: will attempt the show yourself meme tomorrow! I’ve been hiding and trying to decide whether or not come out of the closet! LOL

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   Forest Parks says:

   November 1, 2007 at 11:23 am

   I carved a carrot into a shrunken voodoo head about 3 weeks ago that was my first intoduction to carving!!

   Thanks for the compliment, I had loads of messy fun doing it!

   Thanks for carrying on the meme . I have you in my Google reader so i’ll come over ad comment when it’s up.

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   Lynne says:

   November 1, 2007 at 1:24 pm

   WOW! That’s really good! I think carving pumpkins is hard and I do whatever I can to get out of it. You did a nice job and deserve those pints.

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   Forest Parks says:

   November 1, 2007 at 2:46 pm

   Thanks Lynn

   All these compliments are giving me a big head. In fact it’s almost pumpkin sized right now!

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   parisukat says:

   November 1, 2007 at 3:56 pm

   For your first pumpkin, This is real good and artistic! Love it!

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   Mark says:

   November 4, 2007 at 8:08 pm

   Dude, you’re first carving? No. Way. That’s pretty cool.

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   Forest Parks says:

   November 5, 2007 at 1:00 am

   Thanks Bush even gave me some link love for it

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    Beth Ellen says:

    November 6, 2007 at 7:02 am

    Impressive. Pumpkin carving like you never imagined.

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