I'm a little late this year on the Halloween post but considering I've been internet deficient for the last couple of weeks I'm sure you can understand the lateness.
If you've been following this blog for the last 2 years you will know that since landing in North America I discovered the great North American past-time of pumpkin carving. Thus began my Halloween pumpkin carving adventures.
You can find my last 2 forays into pumpkin carving madness here (my 1st pumpkin carving) and here (my pumpkin carving from last year).
Having 2 years of pumpkin carving experience behind me, this year I got a little bit more ambitious. First off, gone are the crappy plastic carving tools. This year I got a set of professional carving tools (see below) from my lady friend and attended my first pumpkin carving party in Sacramento as a wee stop over on my way to my new home in L.A..
So without further ado, behold this years pumpkin massacre. Mwuhahaha.....
This years crop of pumpkins offered up for sacrifice
My brand new implements of destruction (and yes that's an electric carving drill you see; used for doing carves that don't go all the way through the pumpkin)
With professional tools available to me this year I needed to find a pattern worthy of what the tools could do (I felt that the force was strong in this one)
Transferring the pattern to the pumpkin
After the tools had done their magic
Lighting up the pumpkin
Yoda goes to the dark side (a bit blurry)
OK, this year it looks like I may have bit off a bit more than I could chew. I could blame the pumpkin for being thicker than the average year or I didn't have as much time to perfect the carving since I was massacring it at a party but the truth is, I was just over confident. When it comes to pumpkin carving, I'm still a Padawan.
For completeness, here's a pic of some of the other pumpkins at the pumpkin carving party...
And yet again, we survive another pumpkin madness massacre for another year...
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