I Am The Pumpkin Queen | Part Two

I love these photos so much, they're sooo autumnal! I carved four of the pumpkins you can see above, can you spot them? There's Jack Skellington, a sugar skull inspired one, a scared looking one, and the classic pumpkin face. (Not too sure what that third photo is even of, but I really like it.)

We lit them up just as the sun was going down and it was really beautiful, and really hard to capture on camera! 

Those first two are mine and the bottom one is another example of how your pumpkin does not have to have a face. This cross one carved by my mum's friend is fantastic!

Ok, so then, classic me, I went a bit wild and started twirling around with my camera to get some photos like these. It's the little things. 

I Am The Pumpkin Queen | Part One

This week we're having a little Halloween party in our Community Garden (you can read a bit more about it here), and so it felt only right that we get people together to carve lots of pumpkins ready for the event on Saturday. I'm not going to tell you how to carve a pumpkin because a) I'm sure you already know, and b) there are people out there who can do it much better than I can. What I am going to show you is how I carved mine, and some of the different designs we came up with. Look out for Part 2 tomorrow when you'll be able to see the pumpkins all lit up!

We followed the usual steps; cut the top off the pumpkin, scoop out the innards (and save them to make pumpkin soup!) and carve your design. Below is my attempt at Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas, he looks better lit up. 

Here are some more of our designs, altogether we made about 12. As you can see, you don't have to carve a face on your pumpkin, abstract designs like this spotty one on the bottom left work just as well!

This Week Vol. 4

So this past week or so I've been kitten-sitting for a friend of my mum, and I had a really great time chilling, relaxing, watching films and playing with cats! Look forward to a LOT of film reviews in the coming days (weeks?), but for now here's a kitten.

After spending such a long time with these baby cats, coming home, my cats look like monsters! They're HUGE!So I also spent a day at The Chelsea Physic Garden, and managed to snap some great photos of the plants, and the many, many wasps.

On a totally unrelated note, Anaconda is such a tune. If you haven't heard it yet, it samples Baby Got Back, and is awesome. The Flawless Remix is also pretty epic.