Scary Pumpkins
October 30, 2008
It's almost Halloween. I thought it might be fun to play with EXTREME PUMPKINS II -- however, there is a disclaimer listed -- it is not suitable for small children or humorless adults. More disclaimers -- use common sense. Author Tom Nardone advocates skipping the chain saw in favor of tools I've never even heard of -- the router, the angle grinder, the dremel rotary tool -- and things more commonplace -- the jigsaw, the electric drill, the steak knife and the big spoon.
We had a pretty artsy stepfather, so he also included the shiny black tape, often used for missing teeth. But it appears that Mr Nardone has gone into other freaking realms with his suggestions in this book.
Nardone has the Problem Child Pumpkin, the Skellington Pumpkin, the Subliminal Message Pumpkin, the Afraid of Pie Pumpkin and the Booger-Eating Pumpkin. I was drawn to the FrankenPumpkin -- he uses what he's got on hand -- balls, half-spheres like colanders, other pumpkins especially white ones, wigs, sunglasses, and stuff like nuts, bolts, wires and lights.
Nardone says you cut open and gut your pumpkin from the top or bottom -- decide to use a colander or thin metal bowl maybe the size of an eye patch. Cut the eyes, nostrils, mouth into that foreign material -- drill holes into the material and corresponding holes into the pumpkin -- then thread it together with soldering wire after glueing. Apply the other weird parts the same way. Install the bolts in the lower sides of the pumpkin to make it really look like Frankenstein.
Lots of "recipes" -- and a few facts. Did you know that pumpkins have been around since 3500 BC?
One thing I do not recommend that I tried one year on Halloween -- hollowing out a big pumpkin and putting it over your head. It is slimey and icky.
What you could do -- Nardone suggests letting the pumpkin guts drool out the orange ghord's nostrils to look like snot. You weave the pumpkin guts and chunks along a wire that you've poked into the pumpkin's flesh.
Yeah, that could freak out the neighbors.
It's almost Halloween. I thought it might be fun to play with EXTREME PUMPKINS II -- however, there is a disclaimer listed -- it is not suitable for small children or humorless adults. More disclaimers -- use common sense. Author Tom Nardone advocates skipping the chain saw in favor of tools I've never even heard of -- the router, the angle grinder, the dremel rotary tool -- and things more commonplace -- the jigsaw, the electric drill, the steak knife and the big spoon.
We had a pretty artsy stepfather, so he also included the shiny black tape, often used for missing teeth. But it appears that Mr Nardone has gone into other freaking realms with his suggestions in this book.
Nardone has the Problem Child Pumpkin, the Skellington Pumpkin, the Subliminal Message Pumpkin, the Afraid of Pie Pumpkin and the Booger-Eating Pumpkin. I was drawn to the FrankenPumpkin -- he uses what he's got on hand -- balls, half-spheres like colanders, other pumpkins especially white ones, wigs, sunglasses, and stuff like nuts, bolts, wires and lights.
Nardone says you cut open and gut your pumpkin from the top or bottom -- decide to use a colander or thin metal bowl maybe the size of an eye patch. Cut the eyes, nostrils, mouth into that foreign material -- drill holes into the material and corresponding holes into the pumpkin -- then thread it together with soldering wire after glueing. Apply the other weird parts the same way. Install the bolts in the lower sides of the pumpkin to make it really look like Frankenstein.
Lots of "recipes" -- and a few facts. Did you know that pumpkins have been around since 3500 BC?
One thing I do not recommend that I tried one year on Halloween -- hollowing out a big pumpkin and putting it over your head. It is slimey and icky.
What you could do -- Nardone suggests letting the pumpkin guts drool out the orange ghord's nostrils to look like snot. You weave the pumpkin guts and chunks along a wire that you've poked into the pumpkin's flesh.
Yeah, that could freak out the neighbors.
Labels: book review, EXTREME PUMPKINS II, pumpkin carving, Tom Nardone
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