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Published: 2009-02-17 01:13:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1495; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 0
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Here's my pumpkin for this past Halloween (2008). This one is also the real pumpkin as I haven't had time to carve it into a foam pumpkin. I really like how this one turned out though! I was able to get all the detail I wanted into it w/o it being a foam pumpkin.I actually carved this one on Halloween (couldn't seem to find time before)... and it took a little less than 2 hours.
Miyu (from Vampire Princess Miyu) is also one of the characters I cosplay.... and thanks to Twilight, my obsession w/vampires was pretty high around Halloween, so Miyu just seemed like a perfect choice.
~Risa-chan
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You carve it into a foam pumpkin instead of a real one? That must mean you use a light-bulb instead of a candle.
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well, first I carve any of my images into a real pupkin. then, if I really like it, I'll carve it into a foam pumpkin so I can keep it... it's very depressing to have to throw them away after spending so much time on them. that, and foam pumpkins hold more detail since they are more durable...
and I use those LED lights inside them... although, I use a camping light/or very bright light source to make them show up clearly when I take pics to post here.
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Dude. That must mean you have a buttload of foam pumpkins in your house all with different anime characters on them. I'd soo buy the Kikyou one. Heh-heh. My mom is a tradionalist, uses candles. It makes it smell like pumpkin pie when they get scorched inside. I like smashing them after they gotten all shriveled.
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yeah, pretty much! I have the 3 carved foam pumpkins... and I think 3 more that I haven't carved. the carved ones live in the attic until Halloween, and the uncarved ones currently live behind the couch until I have time to carve them...
and I love using a candle in my real pumpkins. I like that smell too. can't use a candle in the foam ones though... highly flamable... ^-^' yeah, if I don't like the way my pumpkin turned out, then yes, I enjoy smashing them too!
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Heh-heh. Pumpkin smashing. The last year I lived at home my brother fooball punted it and it exploded everywhere. Well, at least it did over a large part of the lawn. Flying pumpkin chunks. He actually kicked it clean off the porch.
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oooo cool! pumkin guts! hehe
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I think my favorite part about carving them is pulling out the guts. I just like the squishy feeling in my hands. (I know, creepy.) Then I like to roast the seeds and eating them. I have a thing for roasted pumpkin seeds.
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omg! I'm the same way! I love pumpkin guts! one of my friends thinks I'm so weird (or weirder than normal 
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When pumpkin seeds are home roasted they never do come out right. Usually the ones we did were always too salty and never got fully dry so they were chewy which was always fine by me.
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lol, mine always turn out that way too! but it's still all good to me too.
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The store bought ones are crunchy because the companies that make them have severely climate controlled atmospheres. Not to mention giant machines that can such all moisture out of the surrounding area!!!
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I want a giant machine that sucks all the moisture out of the surrounding area! I hate humidity!
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I would if I lived in Florida. Humidity sucks and makes it hard to breathe. Plus you get all sticky. EEEEWWW.
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TN is pretty humid in the summer... and yes! humidity is evil!
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Here in NC we just get REALLY dry hot. Humidity only comes in the summer after it rains.
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I used to live in NM, and we only ever got dry heat. it was an event if we reached 30% humidity! I much prefer dry heat!
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I don't like too much heat myself. I like spring and those nice warm days in fall.
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winter is my fave time of year. followed by fall.
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Ugh. Too cold for me.
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I prefer being cold over hot. plus there's no bugs...
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Okay. You got me on the bugs thing, but I'm not fond of cold either.
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lol. I just curl up under lots of blankets and drink hot chocolate... the drink of the gods! Mmmm...
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Sadly I have to walk to work in the freezing cold so yeah...not too happy there.
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yeah, I'd be more opposed to the cold if I still had my job at the vet clinic walking dogs twice a day outside...
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Sounds interesting. Do you have a vetinary degree?
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nope. I have an Agriculture science degree... which is about as useful as a degree in underwater basket weaving for all the good it does me. I want to work in props and set design... and am looking for a new school... and new job. I worked in the kennel at the vet clinic.
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Dude!! An underwater basket weaving degree would be cool!! It would also mean I'd know how to swim, which I don't. An Agricultural Science degree these days is only good for farming and teaching. You basically want to work behind scenes in either theater or movie then. Cool!!
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yes, it would be cool. yeah, I have no interest in farming or teaching... (I started out going for a degree in pre-vet medicine, which was in the Ag dept at my school, desided I wanted to do prop and set design, but finished w/a degree in Ag b/c I was so close to getting on). yeah, I want to work behind scenes... I would love to get paid for making things like my costumes/props for movies or theater!
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I'd love to be the one wearing the costumes!! Especially if they were really wicked cool.
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the 2 costumes I've made are in my gallery -- the Deathsythe and Al. I'm not so good w/the fabric costumes... I think we've had this discusion somewhere on here, lol.
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Yeah. It was that whole sewing discussion.
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oh yeah, I remember now!
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I'm too lazy to sew anyway. Haha. Lol
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yeah me too! that's one of the reasons I can't/won't learn... not enough motivation...
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Unless it's something I like that I ripped. Then I'll sew it.
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if you're not going to see where I fixed it, then I'll sew it... otherwise I have my mom sew it for me
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I'm usually the same way
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I posted some aged poems I wrote over the years...
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cool, I'll have to check those out...
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Most of them are boring
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lol, I'll still look anyway...
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I have a spine-snapping new pic up. I couldn't feel my back when I was done hunching over it.
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ouch! I feel that way sometimes when I make stuff...
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