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Carved pumpkin portrait of Dana Carvey by NIta Gill

Dana Carvey Pumpkin

Learn to carve recognizable faces on pumpkins like this Dana Carvey Pumpkin and you’ll surprise and delight your guests. Besides it being fun, you can offer your skills for profit, too. Here is a pumpkin that I carved last year for a Hospital Fund raising Gala. Dana Carvey was to be the special guest speaker […]

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how to carve a melon snowflake step-by-step

How to Carve a Melon Snowflake

Here is a series of photos showing how to carve a melon snowflake starting with a super simple pattern and adding more carving to make it fancier. You can see a variety of beautiful snowflake melon carvings in our previous post. You can use the snowflake design pattern that is available in our Holiday Carving Pattern set. Or […]

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Pumpkins

Pumpkin Heads for President

Of the Presidential pumpkins shown here, which pumpkin head do you like better? Hillary Pumpkin or Donald Trumpkin? We’ve got a couple of scary choices. Feel free to comment in the comments section below. What more can I say? Want to Carve Recognizable Pumpkin Portraits? You can carve pumpkin heads like these. It’s easier than you […]

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1 year old watermelon

1 Year Old Watermelon

Have you ever seen a 1 year old watermelon? About a year ago I bought some watermelons in preparation for a TV appearance on Hallmark Channel’s Home and Family Show. One of the watermelons sat unused for a couple of months. I ended up keeping it just to see what happened. It lasted close to one […]

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Gorilla carved pumpkin by Gabriel Vinas

Pumpkin Carving Competition Seeks Experts and Amateurs – $7900 in Cash Prizes

The Jack Hanna Pumpkin Competition returns to the Columbus Zoo in Ohio. It takes place on September 26 and 27, 2015. The annual event brings amateur, professional and master carvers together to create spectacular pumpkin carvings. The competition is currently accepting applications for the amateur and professional levels. I’m excited to announce that I will […]

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