plushbug

A long, creative day, producing my now annual two pumpkins for a colleague's scout troop pumpkin raffle...  This comes under the heading of do the weird stuff.  Now I want to do a third, smaller, madder tiki pumpkin decorated with ostrich fern spikes! 

This year I'm carving two pumpkins for auction by a colleague's Cub Scout troop...and possibly a third which will go with them if I can get it done TODAY.  If I can't, it may end up going to the office charity pumpkin auction. 

One down, two to go!

Just checked my office e-mail, and after a couple of years' break from it, we're back doing the charity pumpkin-carving competition again.  October 29th.  God's nightgown.  I'm effectively committed, having done several winning entries in the past, which tend to be good for $80-90 at auction...and I'd kind of like to tackle either my homely little Jotenheim Beast (with his mouth much wider open) or fall back to the bridge troll from SWatH) but oh, damn, layering this in on one art projects, my regular fall clean-up outdoors, and looking to get ahead on housework and DIY before Nanowrimo next month...damn, I don't know if it's feasible.

This morning I loaded up my array of carved pumpkins.  It's been 2-3 years since I did a major pumpkin for Halloween, and this year I'm thinking I might tackle the Jotunheim Beast.  I'd have to use a supplementary pumpkin to supply its side-face flaps, and not sure about the head spikes, but anything with a huge mouth and fangs like that has to be a contender.  Alternatively, I might try for the troll from SWatH.  Both monsters have the relatively flat faces I need for this medium.

Uploaded my collection of carved pumpkins this morning.  I haven't done a major pumpkin for 2-3 years, now, but thinking this year I might try for either a Jotunheim Beast, or the troll from SWatH.  Both have the relatively flat faces I require, and lots of fangs.  At the moment the Beast has the edge (despite the need to use a supplementary pumpkin to create its facial side-flaps, and I have no idea what I'm going to do about its head spikes yet) because it can be done with such a great large mouth.