Tuesday, November 5, 2013

A Lesson in Power Tools

 
Pumpkin Carving Lesson #1:
Knives are SO old school.
 
 
Lesson #2:
No need to deal with scraping pumpkin guts with your hands when you have a pumpkin corer. 
 
 


 

 

 
 Now that's how it's done. 

 
 
 On to carving now. 
Knives come back into play.
 
 

 
The final products:
 

 



 
 And now that Halloween is over, time to celebrate Christmas:
 

Sorry, I got absolutely no pictures of the girls in their Halloween Costumes.  We were having too much fun at the neighborhood soup and dessert potluck, off trucking around the hilly neighborhood trick-or-treating, Halloween parties, and scone-making.  Good times indeed. 

2 comments:

Nelson Nine said...

So much fun! I sympathize with the leaves

M. Nelson said...

Love Halloween. Love that it's over.

Cute pumpkins. we were duds this year. Ethan didn't even carve one. But I'll keep John's shortcuts in mind for next year.