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| Friday, October 20, 2006 |
| Site of the Week: Pumpkin inspiration! |
How many of us make boring jack-o-lanterns for our porches in October? I have to raise my hand. We do, however, supplement that with our traditional SpiderWeb Barbie. The neighborhood kids just love seeing Barbie strung upside-down in a rope web. I'll have to dig out a picture and post it here for you to gawk at.
A few years ago, I attended the Pumpkin Festival in Keene, NH. Now that's a huge deal! Every year, there's a rivalry between Keene and a few other towns for the most carved pumpkins on display. I can't recall how many signs I saw urging people to bring their contributions to the communial effort to "Squash the Record!"
There were towering stands erected (by the fire department, it had to have been involved, because no one else would be able to get up there and light those carved wonders on the upper tiers, which were thirty or forty feet high) at each end of the town center, and lower stands all around. Everyone was crammed with carved pumpkins, most of them lit. After dark, it was an incredible sight - flickering grins and menacing glowers all over the place. There were sophisticated carvings, some of which only penetrated the skin, leaving patterns in the thinned-out meat to glow from within. There were crude faces as well as masterful interpretations of Elvis, Dale Earnhardt -- and some that could have been either Albert Einstein or Tweety!
Few of those compare with the examples on display at Extreme Pumpkin carving. This is a fabulously entertaining site! Browse, get inspired for your pumpkin carving, or share this with friends.
 These are my two favorites from the Extreme Pumpkins site. The one on the right reminds me of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, where Calvin built snowmen and placed them as though his father's car had hit one of them, knocking it all over.
Many thanks to Jan Springer, who found the site first.
Hugs,
Liddy |
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What a great way to get around the lack of fresh pumpkins suitable for carving! That's wonderful, LLL, very creative.
Hugs,
Liddy
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What a great way to get around the lack of fresh pumpkins suitable for carving! That's wonderful, LLL, very creative.
Hugs,
Liddy