# 2012 Pumpkin Carvings
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 31, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428 "2012-10-31T12:56:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/1 "2012-10-31T12:56:04Z")
I don’t see a current thread on this, and there’s no Halloween forum this year, so [here’s mine](http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k302/labtrash/2012yoda.jpg) for 2012.
I was pleasantly surprised - on the table in the light it didn’t look like much, but outside it totally rocks!
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### Author:  [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/2 "2012-10-31T13:48:08Z")
excellent it is
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/3 "2012-10-31T14:18:43Z")
[Here’s my two.](http://i46.tinypic.com/x4nwi.jpg)
[Here’s everyone’s from day 1.](http://i49.tinypic.com/10pqesw.jpg)
My friend’s [“Wild Things” freehand](http://i48.tinypic.com/2ztdkzn.jpg) (it’s got 3 monsters and Max), from day 2.
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### Author:  [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/4 "2012-10-31T16:50:04Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> [Here’s my two.](http://i46.tinypic.com/x4nwi.jpg)
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> [Here’s everyone’s from day 1.](http://i49.tinypic.com/10pqesw.jpg)
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> My friend’s [“Wild Things” freehand](http://i48.tinypic.com/2ztdkzn.jpg) (it’s got 3 monsters and Max), from day 2.
Awesome! Love the one with the blinds !
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/5 "2012-10-31T17:29:03Z")
Bah, the best I could manage was a traditional face with fangs instead of the usual gap-toothed grin. I’m not exactly what you’d call artistic. I’ll just have to admire the avant-gourd work of others.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/6 "2012-10-31T17:48:24Z")
> [@Balance](#):
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> I’m not exactly what you’d call artistic. I’ll just have to admire the avant-gourd work of others.
_golf clap_
Yeah, I clearly need to up my game, too. Those are great. As I had _never_ carved a Halloween pumpkin before in my 35 years on this planet (I know, deprived childhood, right?), I thought I’d start with the [basics](http://i45.tinypic.com/wt7nu1.jpg). I only had one pumpkin, but now I have a craving to get more creative.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/7 "2012-10-31T18:15:22Z")
My friends and I have been getting together to carve pumpkins for 10+ years now and we’ve only ever used drugstore tools and patterns from either [zombiepumpkins.com](http://zombiepumpkins.com) or the drugstore books that come with tools (all of the pumpkins from the group shot except the jack-o-lantern are from drugstore books).
Anyway people are always super impressed with our pumpkins and we never have to be creative or crafty to get them to look so good. Every year I have new people come carve with me and they are always blown away by their _own_ ability (with a pattern)!
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/8 "2012-10-31T19:12:14Z")
> [@Labtrash](#):
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> Awesome! Love the one with the blinds !
Yeah that one is fantastic.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/9 "2012-10-31T19:18:34Z")
The blinds one is my fave too, and it’s not even mine 🙂 It’s from a Pumpkin Masters drugstore book.
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/10 "2012-10-31T20:15:45Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#):
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> The blinds one is my fave too, and it’s not even mine 🙂 It’s from a Pumpkin Masters drugstore book.
I just know that if I attempted that one I’d end up slicing through at least one of the blind slats. And probably a finger or two.
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### Author:  [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/11 "2012-10-31T20:32:35Z")
I’ll put along our two:
Nothing special but [both](http://imageshack.us/a/img94/8559/img1508vm.jpg) are interesting, I think. don’t miss the [scar](http://imageshack.us/a/img594/731/img1511e.jpg).
The skull was obvious due to the pumpkin shape. The other one is a Tripod from a kids’ SciFi series. Not doing a face really makes it actually pretty interesting. We wished we’d had more pumpkins in order to do more abstract ones.
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### Author:  [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/12 "2012-10-31T21:44:14Z")
I tend to way over-commit on my pumpkin design. Every single year I am reminded what a terrible pumpkin carver I am. Don’t believe me? [Left = what it’s supposed to look like; right = what happened.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/59468_579892460095_1224529419_n.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2012-pumpkin-carvings/639428/13 "2012-10-31T21:51:11Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#):
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> I tend to way over-commit on my pumpkin design. Every single year I am reminded what a terrible pumpkin carver I am. Don’t believe me? [Left = what it’s supposed to look like; right = what happened.](https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/59468_579892460095_1224529419_n.jpg)
I literally laughed out loud.