Pumpkin Carving Part Two

Isaac and I were invited to another pumpkin carving party with a bunch of our friends. We had food and wine and we put on Halloween movies and carved pumpkins!

One of the movies we watched was Sleepy Hollow, an old favorite of mine. This led to tons of head puns, which was exceedingly entertaining! There may have been a little competition going on. Some were very clever, some were kind of lame, but had to be said, and a few were just terrible. "Looks like he will never get a-head in life." "Don't let it go to your head." "He was head-ed in a bad direction."

Isaac and I shared a pumpkin again. We wanted to stay with our magical places theme (we did a Hogwarts pumpkin a couple weeks ago). So we carved this:

Mordor!

Here are all of our pumpkins lit up:

Fun pumpkins!

It doesn't quite look like Mordor, but that's OK.

We love pumpkin carving around here.

Pumpkin Carving

"I wouldn't change places
With anyone tonight
We'll carve pumpkin faces
And watch the witches flight"
~"Anything Can Happen on Halloween" by Tim Curry

We had some lovely family members (Liz and Peter--I'm talking about you) invite Isaac and I over to carve pumpkins. They went to a local pumpkin patch and got several (mostly very large) pumpkins. We went over and had pumpkin pie and warm cider, both appropriate choices.

We had lots of fun fighting through the thick walls of our pumpkins and looking at carving ideas online. Some people do amazing things with pumpkins!

Anyway, we had a fun, laid-back evening. Liz and Peter carved cute faces into their pumpkins.

Liz working on her pumpkin face.

Peter's pumpkin

Isaac and I shared a pumpkin and eventually decided to do a silhouette of the Hogwarts castle on ours. Because we are nerds.

Hogwarts!

Then we had to light them, of course.

Don't they look good?!

Anyone else have fun carvings this year?

Pumpkin Carving Party

Want to know a great way to extend Halloween celebrations? Have more than one party! Halloween party, pumpkin carving party, et cetera.

My friends and I had a little pre-Halloween, pumpkin carving party. We all brought pumpkins, stensils, tools, snacks, and some drinks. We put in some Halloween-y movies (Clue, It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, Hocus Pocus, and an episode of Supernatural) and carved away!

I, sadly, had a ton of homework to work on, so I did that and my friend, Jhenn, was super awesome and gutted my pumpkin for me. Katja saved all of the "guts" so she could get all the pumpkin seeds out and toast them for the party next week.

We all had a great time sitting and chatting. And everyone carved a pumpkin.

Here are the results!

Isaac's Weeping Angel

Everyone's pumpkins! Don't they look great?!

We had a grim reaper, a haunted house, Stitch (whose candle was not cooperating here), a Halloween kitty and the Weeping Angel.

Here is mine (surprise, surprise...):

It's the Goblin King!

That seems appropriate! One of Isaac's coworkers got the stencil for me! I love it! I know I messed up a bit--it was a difficult pattern, but I think he's recognizable. Sooo exciting!

That about sums up our pumpkin carving party! Our Halloween party will be next weekend. A bit late, I know, but I am perfectly OK with spreading out the fun! Stay tuned for more Halloween posts.

What did everyone else carve this year?