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October 31, 2016

An Easy Guide To Pumpkin Carving | Halloween 2016


Hello everyone!
It's that time of year where we all get into the autumnal spirit and embrace the halloween festivities. One of things I had never done before was carve pumpkins which is crazy as I had never realised how extremely popular it is to do and noticed it was everywhere, so it's safe to say I was completely late to that party. I ventured to Asda and got some for us to try out together and we stuck on some Youtube tutorials to get an idea of what we needed to do. I realised that it is not as daunting and difficult as I had originally thought and it ended up being a really fun activity to do. I think overall this is an activity I would definitely do again and even could be good to invite a group of friends round when the house is all decorated for halloween and all create some together, I think that'd be really cute. Anyway I thought I would share with you a little step by step guide of what we did. Enjoy!


Things you will need:
* Pumpkin
* Small sharp knife
* Large spoon
* Large bowl
* Pencil
* Tealight candles
* Matches

Step 1
First things first, use your small knife to cut a circle around the top of the pumpkin. It doesn't have to be a perfect circle. This is to open up the pumpkin to then scoop out the contents of the pumpkin and to use later as a lid to open up and place the candles in.
Step 2
Remove the lid of the pumpkin and using a large spoon, scoop out all the contents of the pumpkin, removing all the seeds and goop and place them into a large bowl.
Step 3
Next grab a pencil and begin drawing the design onto your pumpkin. You can also use tracing paper with images and patterns on if you prefer and pin them to your pumpkin, there is a huge variety online to choose from. But for this tutorial I simply took this image I saw online and began replicating something similar onto my pumpkin.
Image taken from Google
Step 3
Now for the exciting part! Carefully using a small sharp knife, begin cutting into the pumpkin and carving out the shapes. I admit once you get into the swing of things, it's really easy to do. I decided to stick to large simple shapes to cut out as it being my first attempt of carving any pumpkin.

Ta da!
Step 4
Finally remove the lid of the pumpkin. Then grab your candles and a box of matches and light the candles. There is two ways to do it, either put the candles inside and light them, although this may cause the match to catch your fingers, or light the candles outside the pumpkin and if there is a big enough gap, put them in the pumpkin via the mouth of it. Once they are placed inside, place the lid back on and turn off the lights to see your results!
Let me know if you have carved any pumpkins before and what designs you did, I'd love to hear about them :)
Thanks for reading! <3
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  1. Believe it or not, I've never carved a pumpkin before. It always seemed complicated and not fun, but I would like to try. Your pumpkins look really nice. Thanks for the tutorial because I really need a guide, I would not have had a clue on what to do. It's not as complicated as I thought.

    ~Ashley
    https://piecesofashley.blogspot.com/

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    1. Thank you for the kind words Ashley, it's really appreciated! :D I thought that too but it turned out to not be as time consuming as I'd thought :) Let me know if you try it yourself, I'd love to see :) xx

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  2. i love the moon and star one, such a cute idea for a pumpkin carving :) lovely post. happy weekend! xx

    http://www.thewhimsicalwildling.com/

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    1. Aww thank you so much Eloise :D glad you like it! Hope you had a great weekend :) xx

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  3. Awesome post! I never carve pumpkins and whatnot they just get too messy but these look great!
    Have a nice weekend x

    Joanne | Life in Blue Skies

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    1. Thank you so much for the kind words Joanne :D hope you had a nice weekend :) xx

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  4. They look so good! :D

    franalibi.blogspot.co.uk

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  5. haha I love it! Your pumpkins look amazing! x
    Trend-Mae

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  6. Fabulous!! Love the result <3
    xx
    http://rockmyboots.blogspot.com.es/

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    1. Thank you very much Irene :D glad you liked it! xx

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  7. The one with the moon and star eye is so cool, haha. I've not carved a pumpkin in years!

    Corinne x
    www.skinnedcartree.com

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    1. Aww thank you so much Corinne, glad you like it! :D xx

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  8. Lovely post dear! Have a great Friday! xx

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    1. Thank you very much for your comment Amira, hope you have a great Friday also! :) xx

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  9. these pumkins turned out amazing!!! love them so much<3

    http://modaodaradosti.blogspot.ba/

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    1. Aww thank you so much Ivana! Glad you like them :D xx

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  10. Your carving rocks!
    Edita
    http://www.pret-a-reporter.co.uk/

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    1. Thank you very much Edyta :D have a great weekend! xx

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  11. Very informative post and useful post so happy to read this article share it for everyone. Huge amount of information has been shared here thanks for such a nice post.
    Regards,

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  12. I love your tutorial, it's really easy and the effect is amazing :)

    http://crafty-zone.blogspot.com/

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    1. Thank you very much Ivonne :D glad you like it! :) xx

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  13. Your pumpkins turned out great! I've never carved one before!

    Danielle's Beauty Blog

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    1. Thank you very much Danielle! :D I'd definitely recommend giving it a go :D xx

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    1. Thank you very much Kelsey & Kenecha :D I really appreciate it! :D xx

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  15. Really enjoyed reading this. Your blog is amazing, I wish I had read it sooner!

    Alys George | www.alysgeorge.co.uk

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    1. Thank you very much Alys! I'm really pleased you like it! :D xx

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  16. In the 1980s, instruments were acquainted that permitted youngsters with carve pumpkins. Pumpkin carving Stencils

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    1. That sounds very interesting, thanks for sharing Jane :) Stencils probably would have made it much easier ;) x

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  17. Thank you very much Zack, glad you enjoyed the post! :)

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  18. I’m not that much of a online reader to be honest but your blogs really nice, keep it up!

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