Pumpkin Carving Contest!

[3113]

oh oh oh! i bought a few boxes of quinoa in an ICA market - i was surprised at how cheap it was there, here i can only get it at bio-food stores, i think, and would pay lots and lots. so maybe i should just carve one quinoa grain?

Bzzzzz (Annoying Buzzer Noise): I'm sorry, but to clarify contest rules, while those outside pumpkin growing countries can use some other vegetable it must be a vegetable. Preferably a seasonal squash or root vegetable.

Neither fruit nor grains qualify.

 

[arienette]

I have never carved a pumpkin in my life. In fact, my family never even bought pumpkins and I went to my first pumpkin patch 3 years ago and got my first pumpkin. I was so happy I finally got one and so proud because I picked it out myself (channel 5 year old Ari now) so I sat it on my desk near my computer and silly me forgot that those things could rot. I kept wondering what the weird stench coming from my computer was.

I never got to go to another pumpkin patch since then, though...Maybe I'll bug someone to take me so I can get a pumpkin. And maybe I'll (try) to carve it.

 

[alyxen]

Had to post this here! Enjoy!

http://www.wedontdance.com/chris/images/PumpkinPatch.jpg

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Had to post this here! Enjoy!

http://www.wedontdance.com/chris/images/PumpkinPatch.jpg

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

 

[Munachi]

Bzzzzz (Annoying Buzzer Noise): I'm sorry, but to clarify contest rules, while those outside pumpkin growing countries can use some other vegetable it must be a vegetable. Preferably a seasonal squash or root vegetable.

Neither fruit nor grains qualify.

are carrots okay? they are root vegetables, aren't they? or potatos?

 

[3113]

are carrots okay? they are root vegetables, aren't they? or potatos?

Yes, both carrots and potatoes qualify being that they are root veggies. Carrots also qualify being that they are orange. But they're kinda hard to hallow out for the candle you need to slip inside.

 

[Munachi]

so there has to be a candle?

 

[3113]

so there has to be a candle?

Illumination from within is traditional. But contest rules do allow the use of modern lightbulbs. No need to burn the pumpkin.

 

[Munachi]

hm... *goes to store to search for tiny light bulbs*

 

[cantdog]

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sysladobsis/pumpkin2-raven.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y90/sysladobsis/pumpkin1-Brat.jpg

last year

edited to add: I scoop out little scrids with a linoleum-block cutting tool. Good control, and the pumpkin is a perfect medium. Lit from within, the deeper the cut the lighter the color.