Here's how my family rolls for Halloween:
Kids go to pumpkin patch with school.
Kids go to pumpkin patch with playgroup.
Kids go to pumpkin patch with friend's playgroup.
Lastly, kids go to Pomona Ag School pumpkin patch with family.
If you get the idea that we have close to 100 pumpkins of various shapes and sizes by the time Halloween comes around, give yourself two points.
My memory is very iffy, but I seem to remember my family of 6 going out to a pumpkin lot and having to decide on one pumpkin to bring home. Then I believe my parents took it away from us, argued with each other, carved it, and made pumpkin seeds while we watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown downstairs.
It's all a big haze.
But my wife and I do a similar version of carving with my kids: they bring in their 5 pumpkins each, attempt to draw on them, then we carve them up the best we can while they Art Direct ("Make the logo bigger, Dad!", "Has anyone seen this pumpkin's job jacket?")
Which is why this post by a design studio in Queens talking about their Pumpkin Carving Salon intrigued me. They invited "24 of our most creative friends and local artists to our studio and asked them to break the mold on traditional pumpkin carving."
Maybe they'll be available tomorrow night when we start ours.
Otherwise, I'm going to have to teach the kids the proper use of a DeWalt 18-volt power drill.
(image courtesy of reactions)
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