Carving Your Pumpkin
Posted on Sunday, May 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
The Fine Art of Halloween Decorations - How To Be Scary and Beautiful at the Same Time
If you have children, Halloween is a great excuse to have some family fun together. It's an opportunity to dress up the whole family in weird and frightening costumes; and to decorate your normally peaceful home in the out-of-this-world Halloween theme, turning it into a scary haunted house to the delight of your children.
Every year can be such family fun opening up the boxes of your stock of Halloween decorations. Children love getting out the hairy giant spiders and spider webs, spooky ghosts, witches on broomsticks, ghoulish outfits and costumes, vampire teeth, witches hats and noses and everything else that goes into making up Halloween. You would think it would frighten them, but children take great delight helping put up the the haunting and eerie decorations that go with Halloween.
Everyone goes about their Halloween celebration in a different way. Some are too busy or not interested. Many people just make their Halloween decoration simple, such as simply carving out a pumpkin face, putting a candle inside and placing it in a window facing the street.
Others like to put in an all-out effort in their front yard, with subdued and changing lighting, lightning flashes, cemetery tombstones, zombies, ghosts, vampires, bats, spider webs and even fog machines and sound effects. It's quite a wacky idea when you think about it, but all good fun. Yet other people concentrate on a Halloween decoration for their front door entry way, to offer a spooky welcome to trick or treaters.
It can be well worth loading up the family and friends in your car at dusk and driving around your neighborhood in the days leading up to Halloween, just to see and enjoy the amazing effort some people will put in to participate and share in the celebration. You can bet your children will be planning out their trick or treating when they know who is in the Halloween spirit and likely to welcome them with good fun, and a good stock of candies and sweet treats.
Occasionally you will find people who also decorate the inside of their homes, and perhaps have tours through their seasonally haunted house to show it off and to raise funds for a charity. Your family will take delight in the visit experience if you are fortunate to have one of these enthusiasts in your neighborhood.
Others like to decorate just a room or two in their homes as the theme for a Halloween costume dinner or party, and invite guests around for some Halloween fun.
Whatever your budget, there is a growing choice of Halloween decorations to choose from today. With better manufacturing methods and more imaginative designs, the quality of Halloween decorations on offer seems to get better every year. Even if you prefer to make your own decorations, or have accumulated a stock of decorations over the years, there will always be a few new additions to catch your eye in the shops leading up to Halloween.
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Seasons Pumpkin Carving Tool Box $5.84 Pumpkin Tool Box Includes: (1) Bright orange tool box that is made of plastic with a see-through window, (1) Safe-2-Lite Candle Holder, (1) Candle, (1) Pumpkin Scoop, (1) Marker, (1) Carving Tool, (1) Sure Grip Tool, (1) Etching Tool and (6) Stencils. Tool Box measures approximately 8″ wide x 6″ deep x 3″ high…. |
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Classic Pumpkin Carving Kit (17 pcs) $4.99 Plastic Pumpkin Carving Tool Kit. Includes 12 assorted 6 1/2″ x 7″ paper patterns, 2 saws, 1 Scraper Scoopâ¢, 1 drill and 1 pounce wheel. (17 pcs./unit) Tools, 1 1/2″ – 5″…. |
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Dakota Products PG001 Pumpkin Gutter Pumpkin Carving Tool $11.15 Use with any electric or cordless drillRemove seeds and strings quickly without the messThin pumpkin walls for professional carving resultsDishwasher safe stainless steelWon’t damage pumpkin seeds… |
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Dremel 764-04 Pumpkin Carving Rotary Tool includes 10 Templates $24.99 Even the least artistic among us can have the coolest jack-o’-lanterns in the neighborhood this year with Dremel’s pumpkin- carving kit. It’s a neat, buzzy little unit that carves off layers of pumpkin flesh to let the light glow through. It isn’t meant to cut all the way through the pumpkin, and the effect is perfectly spooky. Powered by four AA batteries, it’s got two speeds for superior… |
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Seasons Mist Maker $15.81 Please Note: Products are designed and rated for use in the United States using 120 volt current. With or without a transformer, this product is not recommended for use outside the US. Fog Maker Unit comes with complete instructions and UL Listed AC Adapter with 6′ long power cord. Unit creates fog with ordinary tap water. Place unit in glass or plastic container (not included). Please Note: Video… |
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Seasons Sure Grip Deluxe Carving Kit $7.99 Each/blister Card Includes 2 Perfect Pumpkin Carving Tool, Etching Tool, Pumpkin Scoop And 10 Stencils… |
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Body Bag $24.00 36 inch wide and 72 inch long black bag with a full zipper down the middle and the words City Morgue printed on one side…. |
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Art of Appreciation Gift Baskets Boo! To You Halloween Candy and Snacks Care Package Box $10.88 We know where good little ghosts and goblins can find their treats this year! They’re tucked into our “Boo! Eeek! And Scream!” theme gift box – complete with a cute and cuddly plush ghost ready to make Halloween a little more fun this year. Open the lid of your care package to discover all the treats tucked inside: 8″ Plush Ghost, Haunted House Gift Box with Halloween Fun Stickers filled with Gou… |
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Seasons Body Bag $12.14 Features include: •Easy to use•Sets up in minutes•Use for parties as well as halloween•Great for decoration… |
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Play With Your Food $9.89 How many times have you picked up a fruit or vegetable and laughed at how much it resembles an animal or person? Play with Your Food shows you how to look at something ordinary and turn it into something magical. No special tools or techniques are needed, just you — and your child’s — imagination…. |
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Extreme Pumpkins: Diabolical Do-It-Yourself Designs to Amuse Your Friends and Scare Your Neighbors $2.12 Pumpkins are supposed to be scary! Based on his popular and addictive website ExtremePumpkins.com, Tom Nardone has created a full-color guide to pumpkin carving that’s truly frightening. Featuring the website’s signature Puking Pumpkin, and spanning everything from Drowning Pumpkin, Crime Scene Pumpkin, and Cannibal Pumpkin to Electrocuted Pumpkin and other never-before-seen designs, this glee… |
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Play With Your Pumpkins $5.00 More than an oversized vegetable, ancient cu ltures considered the pumpkin a symbol of the whole world. P lay With Your Pumpkins offers a lively history of this veget able as well as 22 succulent recipes for all occasions. ‘… |