My Wife Carved A Pumpkin

[Scottes]

She did a good job carving it, and I did a bad job taking pictures of it. It looked much better in real life.

The Front:
http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/Pumpkin_54153.jpg

The Back:
http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/Pumpkin_54159.jpg


The kids loved it.

[sugargirl342]

You have a very talented wife when it comes to working with a knife.

Pictures of it aren't that bad either. love the glow it gives with the all black background.

Meg :D

[ssim]

That's one cool carving job and a great job on shooting it. I can't see what you would want to do differently.

:D :D

[smudge]

EERrr question from a daft Englishman. What do you do with the mushy bit from inside. What is Halloween about anyway, where did it come from originally. I could google it but I'm too busy looking at photos. :D

Ooh how rude of me, Great phots. A talented wife indeed.

[dtrayers]

That's great Scott! My wife and kids tried some elaborate carvings last year. This year was my turn to help the kids and I used a keyhole saw and made the traditional triangle eyes and nose and the mouth had one tooth.

My hat's off to those who carve like this... I don't have the patience.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Wow.. those are fantastic!

[Dimitry]

Wow...the first part of it...with all the detail is my fav

[LazyPhotographer]

Very cool ... :twisted:

[cmM]

your wife's quite the artist. That must have taken quite a while!

[Conk]

Those are great! Did she use a Dremel Tool?

[IanD]

That goes beyond carving, it is art.
P.S. did ya go out Trick or Treating too/

[marie]

She did a good job carving it, and I did a bad job taking pictures of it. It looked much better in real life.

The Front:
http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/Pumpkin_54153.jpg

The Back:
http://www.itsanadventure.com/postimages/Pumpkin_54159.jpg


The kids loved it.


absolutely wonderfully and artistically done Scottes
congratulations to your wife

lovely pictures
8) :)

[DeeplyDigital]

Hmm... I can smell it ...

Brilliant carving job, good photo, too!

J.
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[stoneylonesome]

well I guess we know who the real artist in the family is now. :D :D Beautiful carving job, Hey and the photo ain't half bad either :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Scottes]

well I guess we know who the real artist in the family is now.

There's never been any doubt!! She also has an amazing ability with crafts. You could hand her a box of junk - anything really - and give her a glue gun or soldering iron and she will create art.

I can't create worth a darn, so I take pictures.

[marie]

You could hand her a box of junk - anything really -

and give her a glue gun or soldering iron and she will create art.



:lol: :lol: :lol:
she had good practice with you ?


:lol:



:oops:

( :? looking up dictionary quickly)

[Belmondo]

Scottes:
That is very impressive. I admire people with a creative streak in them.

My wife is more of an 'idea person.' She thinks of things for me to do. I fear her greatest talents are decidedly not in the arts and crafts arena, although she's never at a loss for ideas of what I should be doing with the glue gun.

[Red Squirrel]

>>"EERrr question from a daft Englishman. What do you do with the >>mushy bit from inside"

You eat it - I had pumpkin soup today for lunch...yummy!

[cmM]

>>"EERrr question from a daft Englishman. What do you do with the >>mushy bit from inside"

You eat it - I had pumpkin soup today for lunch...yummy!
I don't think I've ever had pumpkin soup.... but I ate it boiled at some point... it's very sweet........... or was that pumpkin? :?

[Scottes]

EERrr question from a daft Englishman. What do you do with the mushy bit from inside. What is Halloween about anyway, where did it come from originally.

Yep, eat it. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup. Take the seeds and lay them on a cookie sheet, salt them, and bake them for a little bit. Good stuff.

Halloween had something to do with All Hallow's Eve and (I think) dressing up to scare off ghosts and stuff. (?)

But here in the US the kids get dressed up in costumes and go from house to house getting candy.

I don't think that this holiday much like it used to be. :wink:

[Dee]

Hi All,


Yes Scott is my hubby. I am real, I do exisit. I'm not a figment of his imagination. ;)

I just wanted to say thanks for the great feedback. I had a lot of fun carving the pumpkin. I've been carving pumpkins like this for a few years now. I use plain old hand held wood carving tools. I tried using a dremal this year but found it just made mush which was a darkish orange that blended in making it very difficult to see what I had carved. So back to hand held tools.


A few years ago I won 1st place, scariest pumpkin in a contest we had at the camp ground Scott and I belong to. The carving I did was a portrait of the camp ground owners face. :twisted:

I won by a landslide!

Dee

[Andy_T]

Dee,

great pumpkin!

I hope you get your husband to photograph more of your art. 8)

Best regards,
Andy

[Ballen Photo]

This sure is some intricate detail. Nice work Dee. :D
-Bruce

[amitnike]

awesome work of art .............

[PacAce]

I echo everybody else's comment about your very artistic wife. That's got to be one of the best designed and made pumpkin I've ever seen in a long while. She's really good.

Now, a nagging question...you didn't by chance pose for her while she was doing the back of the pumpkin, did ya? :mrgreen: :lol: :mrgreen:

[Scottes]

Now, a nagging question...you didn't by chance pose for her while she was doing the back of the pumpkin, did ya?

Not really a pose - she grabbed my coffee cup and quickly snatched a picture.
:-)

[billsh]

Dee, great job of carving.

Scott, with the way she handles a knife, you might want to be sure your on good terms each night before going to bed. The picture looks good. Could you have used a reflector to bring a little light around the sides or back of the pumpkin? That would reduce the light fall off. The picture looks fine without it though.

[Scottes]

I actually tried a number of things, with a few candles in various positions around the room. (Trying to keep that same color temp and look to the pics.) In the end, out of about 20 attempts, these really looked the best. I just think that I overexposed and blew out the reds and yellows a bit - even though the histogram looked fine. And this resulted in nuances that the eye couldn't see - like the patches of "glare" on the first one, which wasn't glare but just a thinner section of pumpkin.

Live and learn for next year.

[shortie]

Scottes

Wow that is amazing all I could come up with was two triangle eyes a nose and a mouth abit like this :o

:D :D

Etching and now carving what a talented lady you have

Now the big question who does the decorating :wink:

Shortie

[Scottes]

Etching and now carving what a talented lady you have

Now the big question who does the decorating

That's 2 out of the 15-20 crafts she does.

And all I'm allowed to do is carry and pay. :D

[Dee]

That's 2 out of the 15-20 crafts she does.

And all I'm allowed to do is carry and pay. Very Happy

Hehe, That is funny, and to some degree true ;)

I was at a register once and the woman asked me "Will that be cash or Charge?" I replied "Husband'.

Dee

[cmM]

Hehe, That is funny, and to some degree true ;)

I was at a register once and the woman asked me "Will that be cash or Charge?" I replied "Husband'.

Dee
LOL !!! :P
You just postponed my marital plans for another half a decade :D

[wpez72]

EERrr question from a daft Englishman. What do you do with the mushy bit from inside. What is Halloween about anyway, where did it come from originally. I could google it but I'm too busy looking at photos. :D

Ooh how rude of me, Great phots. A talented wife indeed.


From what i've heard Halloween comes from "Allhallows Eve". Christianity took on the old pagan tradition of carving faces out of Potatoes and turnips at the end of the harvest season in order to worship (?) for a good harvest the next year. Apparently :)

My goodness, how ignorant of me too... You indeed have a very talented wife with a knife (is that a good thing?!) (j/k) :)

You have caught the detail well in your photographs too, well done :)

[cmM]

the carving of the pumpkins I suppose comes from the harvest thing, but the "ghost scary stuff" I don't know. On the 1st of November, the day after halloween in Christianity there's a Holyday "Day of the dead" (Illumination) when you pay respects to your dead loved ones by lighting a candle, not by dressing like ghosts. I find halloween to be an imoral and superficial holyday, especially given its origin.

[Scottes]

I find halloween to be an imoral and superficial holyday, especially given its origin.

Sorry, Chris, but you should understand a bit more about Samhain and the origins of Halloween before making statements like that. It's a pretty important holiday to us Wiccans - though not exactly the holiday enjoyed by most American children. It's pretty obvious that you don't know the origins of Halloween.

Making statements like this slamming another's religion is not very cool.

[cmM]

I find halloween to be an imoral and superficial holyday, especially given its origin.

Sorry, Chris, but you should understand a bit more about Samhain and the origins of Halloween before making statements like that. It's a pretty important holiday to us Wiccans - though not exactly the holiday enjoyed by most American children. It's pretty obvious that you don't know the origins of Halloween.

Making statements like this slamming another's religion is not very cool.
Did not mean it in an offensive way, sorry if it came out that way. I just find it to be an awufully close coincidence to to a Holiday that is quite the opposite.
What are the exact origins of Halloween? I've heard too many versions.

Once again, really sorry if my statement sounds offensive. It is not meant to be.

[Scottes]

It's not so opposite, just kinda bastardized and mutated and intentionally changed along the years.

This (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5452/hallorig.html) is one version of the origins of Halloween, simple and to the point. Again, that's just one view.

[marie]

the carving of the pumpkins I suppose comes from the harvest thing, but the "ghost scary stuff" I don't know. On the 1st of November, the day after halloween in Christianity there's a Holyday "Day of the dead" (Illumination) when you pay respects to your dead loved ones by lighting a candle, not by dressing like ghosts. I find halloween to be an imoral and superficial holyday, especially given its origin.




hallow'een is the day before all saints day which is 1st of november

'all souls ' day is the next day after that
which is today, the 2nd of november

I don't think anyone is offended by anything said, Chris and Scotte

hallow'een is not a holyday here.
just a fun time , mostly for kiddies.
especially for kiddies


it sure is a noisy day/night though
:lol: :lol:

all saints day was a holy day here (yesterday)
not that everything closes
it's not a bank holiday
it's a day like a sunday. but special
because of all the saints who went before us.
saints were not 'way out there' somewhere

they were ordinary people who done extraordinary things ...
for God
their lives are an example to those who are still making the journey
:?

and today is a day for special prayers for loved ones who have passed away, it being all souls day

just saying
:D


:D congratulations again Dee
wonderful work you done on the pumpkin 8)

[cmM]

It's not so opposite, just kinda bastardized and mutated and intentionally changed along the years.

This (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5452/hallorig.html) is one version of the origins of Halloween, simple and to the point. Again, that's just one view.

Does anyone today celebrate Samhain as a religious observance?

Yes. many followers of various pagan religions, such as Druids and Wiccans observe this day as a religious festival. They view it as a memorial day for their dead friends

So it's the same holiday I am talking about, only it's reffered to the particular way Celts celebrated it. That is by all means absolutely respectable, but dressing as Frankenstein and running around the street is the wrong turn Halloween took that I find imoral.

[Dee]

Hi,

Ok American Halloween came about after a few different holidays sorta merged. Lets see if I can remember, it's been a while since I learned about all this.

Samhain, All Saints Day, Day of the Dead, and another type of harvest celebration. I can't remember the name.

Basically all these holidays were celebrated within days of each other. All over the world. No one really knew that they were all so closely realted timewise. Samhain and the "last harvest" holidays are somewhat the same. They both celebrate the year end harvest . The difference is that Samhain is pagan in nature, and the other is catholic. All saints day is also catholic and is a day of remeberance of the saints. Day of the dead is celebrated in Mexico and I'm sure elsewhere. I believe it is a day when the dead of the past year can come back to earth. The people show them great respect and mourn the dead. The dead walk with the living.

And now we have Halloween. Costumes came about because people wanted to hide who they are. It was believed that if a spirit walking on that hallow day saw you they could take you back with them. So you dressed up to blend in. As for giving candy, well that goes back to pleasing the spirits, and deities of Samhain. Offerings are often left at graves to keep the spirits happy. On Samhain offerings are made to show respect and thanks for a fruitful harvest. During these holidays people would also leave food and drink on there front steps to keep the spirits that may venture home happy. This in turn ended up creating "Trick or Treat".

When the new world was created, most of these holidays were forgotten about completely. Those who came here to America did so to get away from the rules and customs of their natives lands so they took great pride in creating there own world and own rules and holidays.

Many years later people began to think about the holidays a little different and what ensued was a mix of all the different holidays time forgot, kinda blended into one.

This happened not only for halloween but Christmas and Thanksgiving too. Even though the Thanksgiving we know was born here in America it does have roots that go back to England.

At least I "think" that's how it happened. At least more or less :)
Dee

[CyberDyneSystems]

Hi Dee,

Nice to see you posting on the forum :)

Welcome! 8)

[stoneylonesome]

Right on Dee, Pretty accurate to the way it happened, mostly it's roots go back 1000's of years in Ireland and the Druids and Pagens. every thing you say is pretty right on, I think either the history Channel or Discovery had a special on this last week.