Thai Style Fruit Carvings at Loy Krathong Festival

Here is our booth at the Loy Krathong Festival. The intention is the show the Thai art of fruit carving

Thai style fruit carvings booth organizer Nujarin Whitman, with Nita Gill and Tym Chaipanya

This is another section of our Thai style fruit carvings display that featured Nuj’s soap carvings, too.

One of the many arrangements with 3 types of melon. The filler flowers are a mixture of real flowers and flowers made of red and orange bell peppers. See below for close-ups of the melon carvings.

Close up look at cantaloupe carving by Nujarin Whiman

Close up look at a Thai style watermelon carving by Nita Gill. To see more of Nita’s carvings brought to the festival, click here.

Honeydew carving by Norita Stewart

This beautiful arrangement of Thai style carrot flower was created by Tym Chaipanya. See the photos below for some close-up views.

These carrot flowers were carved by Tym. This type of carrot flower can last weeks when stored properly in the refrigerator.

Here is a better look at Tym’s precisely detailed watermelon carving that was part of her carrot flower arrangement.

here is a closer look at Tym’s carved carrot rose.

In this arrangement of Thai style fruit carvings, the yellow melon was carved by Nujarin Whitman, the watermelon in the back and the bird were carved by Nita Gill and the watermelon on the left was carved by either Tom or Norita Stewart. the bird was carved from diakon and dyed yellow with food coloring. To see a close up of Nita’s watermelon, click here.

Another beautiful arrangement of Thai style fruit carvings by Nujarin Whitman. The honeydew in the back was a carved and used as a vase to hold the yellow and hot pink flowers. See the photo below.

The yellow arrow points out the carved honeydew vase.

Close up of another of Nuj’s carvings. She put a ton of work into this booth.

A closer look at another of Nuj’s precise and lovely thai style honeydew carvings.

This pretty Thai style cantaloupe sat on it’s own elephant pedestal.

This pretty cantaloupe was carved by 15 year old Kimberley Hernandez

Norita and Tom Stewart (shown in center) also helped Nuj and Nita to set up and man the Thai style fruit carvings display at the Loy Krathong festival.

This part of the bpoth displayed some wonderful and colorful soaps carved by Nujarin. The basket of flowers on the right are all made from soap. I’ll give you a closer look at these in my next blog post.