And so we meet again...

October was my last post? Really? Wow! Who is a slacker? This girl!

Sorry guys! Once Halloween hit, it was a whirlwind of holidays and parties and events. OK, this is what I'm gonna do. I'm going to try my hardest to post a series of catch up entries.

First one: Halloween!

Thanks to one of my best friends EVER.. I got the opportunity to carve my first pumpkin-- EVER! It turned out AWESOME and I even chose a heck of a pattern. Sorry the picture is blurry, I took it with the FaceTime camera on my iPhone.

Decided on a Jack Skellington pumpkin. No Halloween is complete with out a little Nightmare Before Christmas. I love that movie, I love Tim Burton and his crazy mind. I almost wish I had another pumpkin so that I could've done Zero too. :/



Carving a pumpkin is easy but its definitely time consuming. I think it took us about 2 hours from start to finish. We wrapped my kitchen island in garbage bags and taped an empty one to the side. We called it our "Kill Room" haha, you will get that if you're a Dexter fan. Surprisingly those little pumpkin carving tool kits that you get at the grocery store are pretty good. We cut a hole in the top and used the scooper to get out the guts. Then scraped the edges down, placed the pattern on with some tape and then traced the pattern right into the rind.





Here is a trick we found, via some trial and error..

We used a plain ole fork to poke holes in the rind through the paper, making it like a connect the dots. That made it easy to use the serrated cutter to carve out the design.






After we finished Jack, I decided to cut out a bat silhouette from the back so that when a candle or light was inserted into the cavity of the pumpkin, a bat would shine on to the wall.... almost like the bat signal! LOL









I'm pretty proud of him! He even lasted right up to the day after Halloween! Next year--- I'm waiting til the day before to carve!