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My hubby carved a Pittsburgh Pens pumpkin! Not only is he incredible sweet and creative – but he is super talented, too!
He did not use a template and simply looked at the Pens logo and just began to carve. How impressive is that!
Awesome, huh?
I was shocked to find out that there even IS such a thing as a carving template. We got a pumpkin carving kit and to my surprise, it was filled with tons of intricate stencils.
This irked me, and destroyed some childhood dreams. I remember trick or treating when I was younger and seeing these exact same templates carved into pumpkins. I thought the people who could do this were so talented and I always wished I was an artist.
Cheaters.
I attempted one myself.
It is no secret that I have zero patience.
This made me want to dig my eyeballs out chunk by chunk with the cheap carving tool. From now on I will be sticking to triangle eyes and toothless grins.
I made some bbq and buffalo chicken pizzas on Joseph’s Lavash wraps.
Then forgot to take pictures as I was finishing them. Try to imagine their beauty.
Although we live in a huge housing plan, we only got about 12 trick or treaters. Therefore leaving me with all of this.
My hips won’t lie.
I’m very excited about it being November. Not only because it is my birthday month, but also because I feel like I can officially begin listening to Christmas music without feeling like a nerd.
I must go now, as my 36 year old husband just informed me he is watching the animated ‘Horton Hears a Who’. We have no children.
Well, he has no children. It’s time like these where I could possibly say I have one.
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i almost did that pattern on my pumpkin! lol, did you get the kit at wal-mart?!
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Jessica — November 1st, 2009 @ 12:20 pm
I think he got it at Target. I am seriously devastated that ppl don’t carve those themselves.
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The pumpkins look so cute!!
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heheh! Those are super cutee! lol, i hope you enjoyed the movie!
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Wow, very impressed with the Penguin pumpkin!! I am like you, no patience for that kind of stuff, a smiley face is just fine with me :)
Enjoy all that leftover candy!!
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Very impressive pumpkins!
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Aw, I think your pumpkin looks great! We had zero pieces of candy left thankfully!! We had a crap ton of trick or treaters – it was nice!
Your husband is so cute! Enjoy the show:)
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Aw, big kids are the best. Forever yooooooung.
And those pumpkins look cute!
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i drew my pumpkins face. with a blue sharpie.
my brothers have used a saw of some sort. which makes amazing pumpkins, but leaves you washing pumpkin guts off your saw…
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the “boo” pumpkin looks awesome :)
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Love the PITT Pumpkin! Being a fellow PA resident myself, anything PA supporting pumpkin is a fan of mine! ;)
We hardly got any treaters last year so we opted out this year. I know I know, it’s awful, but thankfully, we didn’t get egged!
Glad you had a great weekend!
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WOW! Your husband is artistic! As are you…I couldn’t do that, even with a stencil! Oh man! I can’t lie…I was sort of excited that we ran out of candy so fast. But…I didn’t even get a piece. Might have to run out and get myself a little treaty this week. Have a fun night with your kiddo ;)
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Hi Jessica, the pumpkin looks “scary” enough !!! hehe, I ‘m surprise to know pumpkin carving is a serious business too! got to check it out:)
btw, I like your idea of having pizza on wrap! saves time and taste like thin crust ! I sometime have them on pita bread too :) well too lazy to roll a dough!
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Look at you with your own domain name and everything. You GO girl!!!
GREAT looking pumpkins.
SEND ME THE CANDY NOW. Whoops! I was going for subliminal, but ended up shouting.
:)
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Yay! Your own domain! I’ll be moving this winter myself.
And great pumpkins! Impressive!!
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What a creative and talented husband you have. We didn’t buy candy for the chance we wouldn’t have any trick or treaters. We didn’t and I am so thankful I resisted to buy any candy.
But you know you can’t WASTE that candy. It would be inhumane!!
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Your husband didn’t send those pictures of that to FoxSports Pittsburgh, did he? During the Jackets-Pens game on Friday they showed a pumpkin just like that one with the candle flame in the exact same place.
Regardless, that he did that without a templete is very cool. (Although I would prefer a CBJ logo on mine. :-))
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