Every year, some friends of mine down in St. Louis have a Haloween party. Here's a few choice pictures from the 2000 event.
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Yes, I went as a wizard. A Linux wizard, even. (note the penguin). The little purple thing hanging off my hat is a Little Rubber Ninja Long story. Don't ask, I don't know it all myself. Just think of all the dumb things *you* did in college for no better reason than "there wasn't a good reason not to at the time". |
It turns out I have a knack for pumpkin carving, and so they left me to do all that work. It started a couple of years ago, when everyone was setting up for the party, and since I wasn't a member of the household, I didn't quite know what to do. So I started carving pumpkins; and ended up carving all of them. People liked the work I had done, so they invited me back for the next year. Here's the results of that. :)
Here's all the pumkins lit up with candles (the demon required 3 candles. 2 in the body, and one in the head).
This was my best effort. A skeleton-bodied demon with arms, horns, nose, and what ended up looking like a silly hat. The extraneous bits are actually nailed on with finishing nails, in case you're wondering. in retrospect, I would have just used toothpicks, since they work as well, and are easier to dispose of.
The 'victim' pumpkin was kind of rotten on one side, so I laid it on that side, cut out half-moons for the eyes (so it looks like the eyes are drooped down), and used the piece I cut out for the mouth, as the 'tongue' lolling out.
The succubus was mostly a failed experiment. The green, yellow, and red spots are sort of like Lite-Brites -- plastic pins that are supposed to light up with the light from inside. turns out they don't transmit much light. 
The 'wings' are just sections cut out of the back of the pumpkin (where you can't see it). Like the demon's parts, they're nailed on.
