Spooky squash
October 31, 2012
We decided at teatime today that we wanted to make a pumpkin lantern. Cue a mad dash round several supermarkets only to discover that there was not a big orange pumpkin to be found in Edinburgh! I did manage to hunt down this gorgeous green squash though and immediately snapped it up (inspired by Zoe’s love for a similar squash earlier in the week). My boyfriend and I have different approaches to pumpkin carving so after he’d done the hard work of hollowing it out we took a side each and got to work. The finished result is this split personality squash with a scary vampire on one side and a spooky house on the other. I love it!
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Fun! I am seeing a lot more carved pumpkins around this year, they are fun to see through the windows!
Do we have to guess which side you did and which Iain did? x x
I love it too! I felt a bit of a halloween failure this year when I bought two pumpkins for the boys then forgot about them until 4pm on the day! I gave the three-year-old a marker pen and left him to it, which was probably better than the parent-led cutting out anyway. He had a ball! Plus, my reason for forgetting til then was largely down to making pumpkin pie (the traditional American way – i.e. from a tin of pumpkin!) so I figure a failure got covered up by a big success and that leaves me even. Except that there’s half a pumpkin pie still giving, so surely that’s a plus overall?!
This is my favorite.