Jack o' creativity

The bf had a most brilliant idea this past weekend - let's carve pumpkins! Sheer brilliance. I haven't carved pumpkins since maybe I was 10 or 11. Needless to say, I was very excited!

So we trekked down to the local farmer's market to choose the blank pumpkin palettes that would become our artistic masterpieces. (Of course, we also had to pick up some homemade bread, strawberry jam, grapes and the best part, the chocolate buckeyes he found as the cashier was ringing us out - yum!)

My jack 'o lantern (pictured above) has interesting eyes, but lacks original character in the mouth. Bf's pumpkin on the other hand (captured here) has the spice of creativity that mine seems to be lacking - his is puking its guts out.

Now I just need the nighttime photos where their funny faces are glowing by candlelight.

And I have 12 months to plot next year's brilliant creative pumpkin masterpiece. He beat me this year, but I'm going to call it a "practice round" - which means it's game on next Halloween!