Delayed Crafty Monday

We spent Sunday carving our pumpkins:) We have three...the biggest one ended up with a Tardis on it, but the meat needs thinned out for it to look right, so we have to fix it yet. But here are the other two:

This one is Evelyn's first pumpkin. I had seen this done by other people, and thought it was a good way for her to "help" with her first pumpkin carving. I traced her hands and her feet and carved them into the pumpkin, then printed out her initials in 200pt Stencil font on the computer, traced them on, and just peeled away the skin so the letters just glow through.

I'm proud of the second one, since the letters are so thin. This was an imitation pumpkin, so we can't put a real tea light in it, which is why it shines kind of green:P But we'll have it to put out every year, even if we don't manage to carve real pumpkins.

We had a third pumpkin, but since it didn't stand up right, we decided to cut it open, take out the seeds, and bake it for home made pumpkin puree (for pies and smoothies and such). So we baked some Old Bay seeds and some toasted almond seeds (baked with cinnamon and sugar like toasted almonds at Christmas). So it smells like cinnamon in our house now. Not complaining :)