Let's go backwards on #paolinipumpkin's life, shall we?
This was today, on Christopher Paolini's 30th Birthday.
Last Wednesday, I turned his face around so I could get a better look of him. The next day, he totally caved pretty much how it looks today (above).
Below are the pics I took last Wednesday.
On Halloween day/night:
(The other two pumpkins were made by my sis and mom.)
The process of carving #paolinipumpkin:
- Grab a printed-off picture of Christopher's face
- Sketch the outlines of his face with a washable marker, rubbing off mistakes until happy with results
- Poke a bunch of little holes with toothpicks over the drawn lines, being careful not to accidentally rub off the lines until it's all poked
- Stick toothpick straight through eyes to allow the candles to shine out
- Rub off lines with hand/damp paper towel
- Take a small *I don't know what it's called* (fancy butterknife?) and carefully slice through all the poke holes
- Use that same thingamajig to remove the skin of the pumpkin over his hair, moustache, eyebrows, and beard
- Cut out his beard with it
- Use a big, serrated knife to cut out his head hair
- Accidentally cut off the tip of his ear
- Observe that it doesn't look bad and stop freaking out
- Make the eyebrows, beard, and moustache deeper to allow the candle to glow through
- Apply various little finishing touches
- Clean pumpkin of pumpkin guts
- Stick a candle inside and wake up Mom in the middle in the night to show her
- She laughs and jokes that it's Gordon Freeman, asking me to take a picture of her with it making a smoochy face
- Strongly oppose the idea and send her back to bed
- Take pictures, clean up, put pumpkin on the porch
- Feel accomplished
And finally, before it was even born (carved). How adorable!
So, that's #paolinipumpkin
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