I thought it would be interesting to start a thread of signs that you have a pumpkin carving addiction. Not a bad thing in any way. I'll start off the list and feel free to add to it. You can recognize the pumpkin stencil someone used for their pumpkin carving becuase you have either carved it befor...

About 2-3 years ago I tried to be mummy with horrible results. I thought I will just wrap myself in toliet paper but it kept breaking all the time. A friend suggested some old bed sheets torn up, but the results weren't much better. I also remember as a kid those old costumes with the plastic face m...

I do a mix of both cut through and shading depending if I am carving real or fake pumpkins. I like the shading technique on real pumpkins becuase they tend a last a little longer when they are etched than carved all the way through. You can use a variety of tools for the effect. Pumpkin Masters dye ...

You'll find all things pumpkin in these forums.

Ryan the site looks great. As soon as you get those ZP flyers ready I'll be posting some around my area to speard some Halloween Pumpkin cheer.

Thanks again Ryan for offering the XXL shirts. I just ordered mine today and two of the rainbow lights.

Now with the bride of the zombie pumpkins nature must take it's course and brings us the spawn of the zombie pumpkins next year. I can just picture a baby zombie pumpkin with a binky and bonnet. LOL

About two years ago I got a Disney Winne the Poo CD which had about 2/3 of an old halloween soundtrack from the late 1970's. It's well worth the $5 I spent on it. There is a frekenstein scene where he escapes, grave diggers, and several more. I will try to dig it out and get the title for those that...

K-Mart has a Halloween game you can play at the following website.

http://games.mvm.com/halloween/halloween.html

I have one friend that soaks her pumpkins in the swimming pool. The water rehydrates them and the chlorine retards the mold growth.

Also Pumpkin Dunk'n worked well, but to my knowledge they don't make it anymore. One of my other posts had the details of how well it worked.

Micahel's carries their own knock off version of Funkins. I also saw that Gardenridge carries the same brand as Michaels.

I forgot I use them on occasion to scap out the inside or it I am etching a large area on a pumpkin I may use a small loop, or squared off version of a cermaic loop. Also useful is a metal pointer that comes in most ceramic kits for trimming excess clay, marking, etc. For pumpkins it makes a really ...

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I use the pumpkin Masters foam carving saws and they work well, but are slow going. Also the suggest of using an exacto knife would work as well. Could it be you got one of the decorative pumpkins not for carving by mistake? Michaels does sell some decorative one that are not for carving.

This is the prianry tool that I use for etching my pumpkins. You only need one hand on the tool, but the other hand to hold the pumpkin (I guessing that is what Pumpkin Masters is trying to get at). Anyways for light cuts you don't need to apply much pressure, for deeper cuts apply more pressure. It...

It would be cool to have stencils of all three previous zombie pumpkins characters, as well as the new one for 2006.