Home 31 Oct 2007 10:08 pm
Jack-o-lanterns 2007
“Best pumpkins ever!” said some of our trick-or-treaters. Here’s the whole set of jack-o-lanterns.
I did the cat, skull, and big-mouth jack-o-lanterns, as well as the vaguely Balinese-ish one on the left. (It’s a self-portrait. Sorta.) Josh did the tiki, the rabbity one, the cyclops, and most of the gnawer/gnawee pair. (I figured out the gnawer’s eyes.)
My thanks to the artists, whoever they are, who did the original art on which the cat monster and sugar skull jack-o-lanterns are based. Those images had been kicking around in my files for a while and now I have no idea where they came from.
This sugar skull took me about six hours to carve.
![[freakily ornate sugar skull with lots of curlicues and flowers]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/1810946360_5a8e1d14a2_m.jpg)
Previous jack-o-lanternery: 2006, 2005, 2004.
on 01 Nov 2007 at 12:49 am 1.TamIAm said …
You’all rock the lanterns!
on 01 Nov 2007 at 5:21 pm 2.cissa said …
Ooo! WAY cool!
So: how do your keep the flames from extinguishing in the ones whe3re the design isn’t carved all the way through? We were having problems with that this year…
on 01 Nov 2007 at 5:45 pm 3.Cam Sculpin said …
Thanks, you guys!
We put two air holes in back, and they’re pretty sizeable.
on 02 Nov 2007 at 12:05 am 4.dyslexia said …
Okay, seriously, that pumpkin is *amazing*! I am awed and joyful!