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Published: 2008-10-31 05:41:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 7231; Favourites: 83; Downloads: 15
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Dragon pumpkin carved for my boyfriend. Instead of punching out all the pieces he liked the outline effect.Pattern from www.pumpkinglow.com
More of my carvings can be found here
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OMG this is soo cool 
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Leaving the parts in helps stabilize the pumpkin while carving the rest of it; it was just a happy accident that it looked good so I left them in
But be careful browsing the pumpkin carving category -- it can easily suck up hours of time 
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Yay halloween! Yay pumpkin carving! Awesome dragon!
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Thanks, and yay pumpkin carving, indeed!
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Ooooh I love carving pumpkins! This one and your panther pumpkin both turned out really great. Halloween is probably my favourite holiday--can't wait for this year hehe
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Thank you, dearie
This is incredibly late so by now I can say I hope you did enjoy that Halloween and the next one is coming up so I can wish you a happy upcoming one, too!
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That is an awesome dragin! Nice job on the carving. ^_^
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Totally not my intention
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Oh wow! What a beautiful dragon! I love your attention to detail including the slightly pointed segments of its spine.
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Thanks! I got the pattern from [link] and highly recommend it if you ever have pumpkin carving plans of your own.
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Hehe! They have some amazing patterns! I would love an Einstein pumpkin!
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My thoughts exactly! especially with that hair...
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.....might I say, "WOW."
This must have taken a lot of time and patience!!
I love the way it turned out. Mysterious. Cool.
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Thanks
Yeah, took an entire afternoon and then some, but with practice I'm sure it wouldn't take nearly as long.
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That looks really great!! How do you stop the whole design from caving in?
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While carving, I kept one hand inside the pumpkin to support the wall while I sawed through. After carving... well, I didn't make any major mistakes while carving that would cause it all to fall apart and leave big gaping holes, plus not punching out the pieces also supports the design. I've also heard that toothpicks work well if you have a very fragile design, but haven't tried them myself.
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That's awesome. Hats off for putting so much work into a transient art
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Thanks!
"Transient" is putting it mildly--between hungry squirrels and general decay both barely lasted a week! Ah well, c'est la vie.
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i like the outline effect as well. this looks way too intricate for me to handle. VERY impressive though.
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The outline keeps it a bit darker (and neater--I don't want to think of what would have happened to all those intricate parts if I had to punch them out!). Thanks
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i've never carved a pumpkin before in my life but this makes me want to try!
although i highly doubt i'll get anywhere close to this....
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Hello hello, and thanks for all the comments & faves (wow!).
I would definitely recommend trying it (and now that it's after Halloween, pumpkins will probably be even cheaper
As for difficulty, I cheated and used a free pattern from the internet ([link] which has everything BUT Halloween patterns, and there's many, many more just a quick Google search away), so all I had to do was follow the pattern--quite less intimidating
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oh wow thanks, im gonna try it next year.... with some practicing behind closed doors until then...
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If you're planning on starting in the summer, though, I hear watermelons are also fun to carve...
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lol! pumpkins and watermelons then!
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sounds like a tasty combo
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lol i tried doing that... i gave up at the head and made my own! lmao 
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That would've been the smart thing to do, lol!
Thanks
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Wow! That looks awesome! Got to have taken a long time to do though...
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Thanks
Yeah it took a whole afternoon and then some since I hadn't carved one in years before this. Now I'm addicted
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I can imagine! Oh, and thanks for the 
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