Ready for another year! - Zombie Pumpkins!
Hey, what's new with you? Tell us about yourself.
I've been carving for about 14 years, and every year I try to improve my carving skills. I give about 4-5 carving demos and workshops a year using ZP designs as my front runner. Last year I had a woman from Asia who had NEVER carved a pumpkin before in one of my classes and that was extremely cool to coach her through her first.
When I'm not carving, I work as a literacy teacher in an elementary school teaching at risk children to read, and I also spend my evenings doing theatre work creating and designing props and stage managing local shows. This summer has been an especially challenging one as I lost a very close family member in an extremely tragic way and two of my children (I have 5) have had some very serious trials themselves. I am really looking forward to and needing some good carving this season as my catharsis.
Thank you, Ryan for this wonderful place!
A Rumplestiltskin (from Once Upon A Time) pumpkin I created but the pumpkin was going soft by the time I was able to carve it. It looks unfinished because I was literally holding the back of the pumpkin together with duct tape where it had started to split. So this is as far as I got.
"Obi-wan never told you what happened to your pumpkins."
"He told me enough, he told me *you* carved them!!"
I bet carving that last pumpkin came with a price. Didn't it Dearie? Those are some excellent carves.
Yes, yes it did! Haha! A price I was willing to pay. Thank you.
Always sad when our pumpkins go soft, but that's a carvers life And at least you still got a picture taken.
If only I could quit my job and just carve all month I could be sure of having a good year! Don't we all wish that? Yes, thank heaven Ryan always delivers.
Great carves Euri, and sorry for your loss. Hopefully things improve for you. I love all the carves! The snowflake has so many thin lines and it looks awesome!
Thank you, I appreciate that very much. Yeah, a TON of thin lines on the snowflake; it was harder than I expected. Luckily the mistakes don't show much in the picture.