Are you tired of the same old carved pumpkin?
Do you struggle with ideas on what to carve on your pumpkin?
Are you totaly clueless (like me!) and unimaginative on how to make a big orange gourd into something unique and awe-inspiring?

If you answer yes to any (or all!) of the above questions then check out MSN Lifestyle with Martha Stewart!

These are not your every day, plain old hum drum carved pumpkins!

Here is just one idea. For more click on the link above!

Pumpkin Raccoon

This raccoon’s nose was made with a pointy gourd that was fitted into a hole in the front of his pumpkin head.

Pumpkin Raccoon How-To

A pen and a linoleum cutter will help you turn a pumpkin into a convincing raccoon or other creature.

1. Choose a pointed gourd to use as a nose. Trace the bottom of it around the bottom of a medium pumpkin, which will become the face. Cut a hole from the bottom of the pumpkin, and also from the bottom of the gourd; scoop out both. Cut another hole in the back of the head (top of pumpkin) for lights and ventilation, and for access to attach the nose.

2. Use a pen to draw facial details, and carve along those lines with a linoleum cutter, leaving a 1/2-inch thickness of flesh so light will shine through. Attach the nose by fitting the bottom of the pointy gourd into the hole in the pumpkin with toothpicks. Make ears from triangles cut from the pumpkin, set upright, and attached with toothpicks.

Pumpkin Racoon

Rebecca
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