Puh-kin Carving and gOOgly eyes

That's how i like to say pumpkin. "PUH-kin" :) anyway, we decided to be Halloween-y and festive last night and carved a pumpkin! I picked up one at the farmer's market we shop at and found a great big one! i was so excited! and then when we started carving, we realized how THICK the rind was! it was so hard to carve! but we had a good time. we designed a haunted house to go on it and we even had some little candles to light :) after the sticky gooey mess of cleaning out the, as i like to call them, pumpkin innards, we set to work carving out our little design (which i downloaded and printed off the internet hee hee) then we lit the candles and our pumpkin looked REALLY cool.

And then i decided i wanted it to be Christmas ha ha John thinks i'm kidding, but our little 2-ft tree is going up as soon as November rolls around ;)

Trying to get the knife in all the way

We had so many of these gloves left over...
So we used them to clean out the innards :)

Eww!! Slimy!!

John set to work carving our design

Spoooooky!

Mwa ha ha haaaaa

During my spare time (of which i have LOTS) i made some little mummy candy holders out of some paper towel rolls, paper, rolled gauze and gOOgly eyes!!! (i love saying googly. it's pretty much one of my favorite words, right up there with 'orb')

Aren't they cute?!?

And now i have lots of left over gOOgly eyes that i had some fun with and i made each of us a pet rock :) They don't have names yet though...

Hee hee