Want to feel inferior as you take hand to pumpkin for a little carving? Check out this and dozens of dazzling other examples of seasonal carvings at Pumpkin Gutter. I took my son Sunday afternoon to the annual workplace Halloween party, which was - as always - a gas ... pumpkin seeds everywhere, as the kids all carved their own thing.
Speaking of kids ... keep them away from Extreme Pumpkin, which collects novelty carvings of a grownup variety (the violence is more realistic than cartoonish, let's say). Amazing what you can do with a lathe, some carpentry tools and a little ingenuity (a black sense of humour seems to help, too.) Here's an example from last year's contest:
Ugh. And this is a milder one. Directions are included on the site for entering this year's contest.
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