Halloween is one of my favourite holidays- I'm a Halloween and Christmas girl. I also love using my hands and when I figured out that I liked carving pumpkins a serious seasonal addition was born! This Halloween was really exciting because after sharing photos and stories from opposite sides of the country for years, Amber came over and carved pumpkins with me!! And she rocked it. The girl is seriously handy with a knife!
I usually carve 2-4 pumpkins a year, so I've done a lots over the past five years but my favourite is to do a set of characters…
Twilight: so bad it's good!!
Two of my favourite characters from such an amazing movie!
…because True Blood has been one of my big addictions in the last year!
It's fun to have people get excited when they come to our house on Halloween, but I really love the carving process! I wish it was something I could do more than once a year- maybe I should try carving stamps and get into block printing…
Tonight, in keeping with our other Halloween tradition, Jesse and I are going to be eating Sloppy Joes & Sloppy Janes (that's a Sloppy Joe with veggie ground round!) and watch The Evil Dead while the neighbours try to guess who the bucktoothed guy on my pumpkin is. I think it's going to be a really good night :)
Do you have any Halloween traditions?
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It’s amazing to me how people can carve such amazing pumpkins. Mine look only slightly better than if a three-toed sloth had done the carving.
I am super impressed with your pumpkin carving skills! All your pumpkins look great!
OMIGOSH. If I’d seen those pumpkins on your porch, someone would have had to hold me back from stealing them! ;) They are SO awesome!!
Your pumpkins look fantastic!
Holy cow! You are an amazing pumpkin carver. Mine look like a five year old did ’em! Happy Halloween!
Kacie
You need to shoot a video of these awesome creations as you’re doing them. Wow.
the vampire themed ones are so appropriate! love true blood :)
I am currently wrapped in Christmas tinsel and wearing a gold crown & nerd glasses as part of our yearly tradition of running to the dollar store to create costumes for our Halloween party at work. This year we went as ‘internet gold’ :)
Wow, you have some serious pumpkin carving skills, Kyla! Those are so great. :)
Happy Halloween!
Your pumpkin carving skills are so impressive! Great job and Happy Halloween! :)
These are amazing!
I’m thinking about trying to carve a watermelon this summer – so maybe you could do that to satisfy your carving addiction year round! (I, too, love the jack-o-lanterns at zombiepumpkins.com – they have the best ideas!)
We made goulash last night (aka GHOULash), so I’m thinking that might be a Halloween dinner tradition from now on. I love that you have “Sloppy Janes” – I make veggie sloppy joes with lentils and call them “Snobby Joes.” Yum!
WHAT??? I had no idea you were so good at this! You are full of suprises. And, yes, you should play with block printing/stap carving. Clearly you have the knack.
Oh my gosh those are amazing! Twilight is so bad its good.
I love Halloween too! We didn’t dress up this year or make any plans and I’m kind of sad about it. We did carve pumpkins though which is probably my favourite halloween tradition!
Your pumpkins are so good. I do not have that kind of pumpkin carving talent – or patience ;)
This is seriously amazing!!! I love it! :)
Those are awesome! :) We don’t have traditions, and I’m working tonight.. so.. it should be interesting! :P
My husband and I always put his costume together the day of our Halloween party. This didn’t start off as a tradition, but now we have a good time running around and making last minute changes as we do (or don’t) find things. This year, we couldn’t find a fez, so instead of a Shriner, he went as the Mad Hatter. It’s become a fun, silly little tradition and a good excuse to spend the afternoon together.
Your pumpkins are amazing! We don’t have any real Halloween traditions but we’re taking Topher trick-or-treating with one of his friends tonight :) I’ve been trying to teach him to say “Trick or Treat!” but it’s more like “Chuck oo choo” – I’d give him extra candy just because he’s so cute!
Your pumpkin carving skills are amazing!
Those pumkins are amazing! Love it! Last year my little sister, boyfriend and I bought pumkins and carved them. We want to keep the tradition but haven’t been able to carve any yet. Maybe I’ll surprise her tonight with a pumkin :)
…Of course we will just stencil in our pictures…
Woah, your Sweeny Todd pumpkin duo is amazing!!
The Boy and I are zombie-movie aficionados, so we always end up having a horror movie marathon in some way :) And we get together with friends to have a pumpkin carving party, which is my absolute favorite part! We sadly don’t get many trick-or-treaters where we live currently, so we’ll just have to wait a few more years to start some more traditions!
eeeeeek…I love TB too..I can’t get enough of it..killing me waiting for the next season to start!
Love your Eric & Sookie pumpkins :D
Those pumpkins are fantastic! You have amazing pumpkin carving skills :)
We don’t have any Halloween traditions, sadly. My husband isn’t into Halloween. In past years it was like pulling teeth just to get him to dress up and go out! This year we’re just staying in and passing out candy.
Happy Halloween!
Oh wow, they are amazing!!
Also, have a very lovely and spooky Halloween!
Jen and I carve a pumpkin each (love Sookie and Eric! The “real” couple in our opinion!) and have a feast for Halloween. Every year, we have Sloppy Joes, a Pumpkin Cheese Ball and salad, plus other goodies that rotate. Like this year, we’ll have a snake shaped calzone! :D Oh and rum punch!
Jen and I dress scary, hand out candy and than walk hand-in-hand to the local haunted house slash food drive to be scared and donate food. Once we’re back home, we change into comfier/cuter costumes and watch movies, TV and play games while finishing the rum punch! ;)