Pumpkin Carving

As you'll remember, The Fiance and I bought a couple giant pumpkins a few weeks ago to decorate the house for Halloween.  We held off carving them so they wouldn't be all molded by Halloween.  This week, we made a trip to the Halloween store to grab some carving tools and set out to get them done!

We started by picking our designs.  A friend of mine had sent me a really cool  picture of a Tinker Bell pumpkin design. Since Tinker Bell is my favorite, I decided to do my best to replicate the carving.  The Fiance has not yet unpacked his printer, so I had to improvise.  We pulled up the design on the screen and I traced it directly off the monitor.

After that, we covered our outdoor table with a layer of garbage bags and started hollowing out our pumpkins.

Now, neither of us had carved pumpkins in a really long time, so this was quite the adventure for us!  Once our ginormous pumpkins were sufficiently empty, we drew on our designs.  I used my handmade stencil to trace on my image.

The Fiance's pumpkin was super huge and he thought all of the patterns were too small for his, so he decided to freehand his design.  He chose a somewhat classic jack-o-lantern face and added some flames on the sides to make use of the space.

These pumpkins were not only HUGE but they were thick inside also! So, it took us a little while to cut through them. 

Once our designs were cleaned up, we decided that mine needed a little something extra. The picture my friend sent me, the Tinker Bell pumpkin also had pixie dust. So, The Fiance busted out his drill and we used a couple different bit sizes to put  a trail of pixie dust flowing behind Tinker Bell!

I drew an outline of where I wanted the trail to go and The Fiance did a super awesome job at placing all the pixie dust.

He then took a quick trip to Target to grab some electric candles for inside our pumpkins.  We moved the pumpkins back to the front porch and lit them up.....

Don't they look awesome? We were pretty impressed with ourselves, especially after being out of the game for so long. HAHA!

We put up spider webs around the bushes in the front yard right after we lit the pumpkins and four or five people walked by and stopped to admire them.  I got a text from The Fiance the next night while I was at work.  Apparently when he came home, there were five or six kids standing in front of the house admiring the pumpkins and begging him to turn the lights on inside them so they could see them glowing. They were quite impressed! I guess we did good. :)