Thursday, October 25, 2012

Scarily Ambitious

I stink at decorating, always have.  I feel like most anything I do looks pretty dorky. 
But this year, I tried to do MORE. 
I was feeling a little batty . . . .
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and decided it was time to try my hand at pumpkin carving.  We hadn’t had a pumpkin grace our doorstep ever since all our pumpkins were smashed within less than an hour of placing them outside.
I have no memories of ME ever carving a pumpkin so it was time to create a new memory. Paul gets as excited about decorating as I do, so he was not overly thrilled with the prospect of pumpkin carving (someone had to help the kids all those years), so I was on my own.
I bought what I thought looked like a reasonable pumpkin
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and a pumpkin carving kit complete with patterns.  So I picked an easy one. . . it would be embarrassing to fail and have to buy ANOTHER pumpkin.
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I “think” I followed the instructions in addition to taking a sufficient amount of pictures. 
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TaDa!  I learned I could do it and that pumpkin guts are disgusting.  Now I have to decide if I’m going to try a harder one next year, or stop while I’m ahead!

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