Halloween has to be my favorite holiday of that year. It is a chance to worship and appease Sam Hain. It is a chance to dress up as the thing you desire to be, to be scary, sexy or just someone else. It is a chance to give and get candy and scare people. As a kid I loved Halloween, I would hit up as many houses as I could, making multiple runs offloading candy as I got my fill. As I grew and became too old to Trick R Treat, I started to decorate my parent's home with many pumpkins and even set up a chimenia atop the drive way to have a fire and set up seats to hand out candy. One year the fire department swung by to warm themselves on my fire. I would occasionally scare kids but in truth I prefer making Halloween something that is simply a lot of fun for kids, because it pisses me off that kids don't stalk the streets as they once have. More of them now go to malls. MALLS for buddah's sake!!! So I love making my place fun and a bold statement to not only draw in kids, but to make it a place that they tell their friends about.
My big thing is carving Jack'o Lanterns. In carving as many pumpkins as I have, I have learned a great deal through research and practice, and now I wish to share some that knowledge and experience with you, the internet through my Pumpkin Carving series here on my blog. I will cover everything from picking the pumpkin, to the tools, the cleaning the designs, the cutting and the final prep work to make a pumpkin more then it is. If you want to see some of my work from last year, here take a look.
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