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Halloween Pumpkin Owl

Pumpkin carving project.



Introduction

For Halloween, I did a pumpkin party.

I wanted to decorate the living room with many pumpkin. So I bought a few different variety, plus a one for carving.

This one cannot be eaten !

Pattern

I search on Pinterest a design that seemed “nice”:

To start with, you first need to open the pumpkin and remove the seeds from the top.

Next, it is preferable to draw with a pen the line you need to cut, to be sure the design will have the good proportion.

Then, you can start carving. This is very time consumming !

Here, this is almost done, but it is not clean yet: When you cut the skin, there is all the flesh behind that you need to carefully remove to see the inside of the pumpkin.

When the flesh has been removed and the pumpkin cleaned, this looks like that:

At some point, I became aware that I missed the wings!

With a true candle, it gives this result:

Now, with my pod light in the dark:

Others

Cheesy spider !

Before oven:

After oven:



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