How to carve a Halloween pumpkin

Head out in pouring rain to farm stand:



Give self muscle spasm pushing autumnal accoutrements to car:



On arrival back home take two pumpkins:



Place on steps for carving inspiration:



Take high class carving tools:



For the terminally stupid:



Make a lid:



Ignore wonkiness caused by using pixie sized 2" mini saw (because no one trusts you with the carving knife).

Wrench lid off:





Spend twenty minutes removing fibrous insides, obsessing over every last seed:



Abort plan for complicated stencil & go for simplest possible design in line with personal creative abilities. Carve out shapes with doll size instruments:



Ta da:



Am pumpkin carving genius.

Believe this is so until Y presents finished pumpkin forty minutes later:



Curses.