I know Halloween is tomorrow, but a special post for a special day. Okay, well a special day for me and your child or children if you have 'em. Halloween was always the time for me to eat so much candy it made my dentist cringe and a time to be creative. In my house their was never a shortage of creativity and child-like enthusiasm.
Carving pumpkins was a great family activity. The whole family would spread last week's newspaper over the kitchen table pumpkins would be sliced open, gutted and cut to specifications. When my sister and I were young, we did simple pumpkin carvings. That quintssential three triangles and a cresent mouth. As we got older, designs became more intricate and not nessesarily because of any stencils. See, Dad is an artist... well and art teacher. One of his more intricate designs required him to slice away small portions of the pumpkin rind, but never cut through all the way. It gave a great glowing effect. So my sister and I started to use the shape of the pumpkins to use in the design.
If you haven't carved a pumpkin in your life or it has been a while since the last time, I suggest you do so today. It is a great way to break out of the doldrums of gloomy weather and that 9 to 5 you show-up to five days a week. Not to mention, it is a great way to take out stress. (In a macabre kind of way)
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