I recently posted an article about carved pumpkin lanterns made to celebrate Halloween. In it, I show a bunch of carved pumpkins with movie and cartoon themes. One thing that these carved pumpkin lanterns all have in common is that they use varying thickness of the pumpkin to create varying shades of light and dark. […]
Want to see some truly amazing and inspiring pumpkin carving? Tonight the Finale of Food Network’s “Halloween Wars” airs. It’s on Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 9pm ET/PT Watch it and you will see Ray Villafane in action carving his extreme pumpkins. If you miss that, you can see Ray carve his extreme 3-D pumpkins […]
Perhaps you are hunting for ideas for pumpkin carvings for Halloween. Or maybe you are having an Autumn party and are looking for some cool pumpkin lantern ideas. Pumpkin Carvings Like These Are Sure To Impress! You will get some of fun ideas from these photos of cartoon and movie themed pumpkin carvings in this […]
Kabocho Squash, also known as Thai Pumpkin or Japanese Pumpkin is a beautiful fruit for Thai fruit carving. Video and photos show kabocha squash fruit carvings.
I know that Thanksgiving has past for this year but I wanted to share the carvings that I made to bring to the Thanksgiving dinner that I attended. There were almost 30 people and 3 tables so I made one centerpiece for each table. Here they are. (more…)
Sometimes we just don’t have time for vegetable carving. So, here is a super simple way to quickly dress up a dish of yams for Thanksgiving. Just add yam and sweet potato flowers to the top of your marshmallow covered yams. (more…)
Here is an easy Thanksgiving decoration idea. You can make graceful birds using acorn squash and yellow crookneck squash. If you have the time you can carve feather and tail designs for your acorn squash bird’s body. Or, you can just use the acorn squash without carving and you will still have a very pretty […]
Today is November 20 and I still have on display a carved white pumpkin lantern that I made on Halloween. That was October 31. So this pumpkin is now 21 days old! I’m finally about ready to throw it out. Amazingly, it is only now starting to get a little bit moldy on the inside. […]
The first time that I carved flowers from vegetables was just before Thanksgiving. I assembled this bouquet and brought it to my mother-in-law’s home where about 25 of us were gathering for Thanksgiving dinner. I was excited to bring them to use as a centerpiece but Wow, I never expected such an enthusiastic response. I […]
Halloween will be here in just a few more days. If you are planning to carve any pumpkins – whether it be a detailed carving or a simple jack o lantern face take a look at this 2 minute video. It will show you a quick easy way to hold your pumpkin in place securely […]
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