Halloween Pumpkins

On Monday we carved our Pumpkins!

It was the first time

I had ever carved a pumpkin all by myself and man...its a lot of work!

I def did NOT enjoy gutting my pumpkin 

and I most certainly complained the entire time.

YUCK!

Of course the first ever pumpkin I did HAD to be Princess Tiana!

I am rather pleased with myself.

Even though I did use a tracer I can not tell you how difficult

it is to transfer a tracer to

a pumpkin without distorting the picture!

Then making sure to carve slow enough that you stay on course

but not so slow that it takes forever!

Also...small intricate parts are difficult!

I did find that in the areas that are smaller (like her hair curl, and the frog

legs) it is MUCH easier to cut away small 

chunks of pumpkin before removing so that

the large chunk doesn't break the small piece.

Here are our pumpkins side by side,

Princess Tiana and Scooby Doo!!

Happy Halloween!