Pumpkin Carving on Halloween

Posted by sab | Filed under Crafting, Travel

I went down to Dunsborough this weekend with friends. Celine was awesome and bought pumpkins for us to carve as well as a sheet to put on the table, carving utensils and patterns. The pumpkins were literally hard to carve and took a long time to scrape out to an acceptable one inch width for carving. We all wondered how people in the US did this on a regular basis, but had fun along the way regardless :)

Here is the custom design that my partner in crime helped me to carve out using corn cob stabby things, a cheap knife and a miniature saw from the pumpkin carving kit.

Quickly testing out how it would look with a light inside.

With a candle inside the pumpkin.

We used 1.5 kg of pumpkin to make pumpkin soup for dinner: there were twelve of us.

Here’s a pumpkin carved by Kien, Sena is sitting in the background with his creation.

Everyone’s pumpkins were still there in the morning!

Hope you guys had a fun Halloween last weekend too!

Read more | Comments (1) | November 2nd, 2008

Sometimes, reading the manual is not enough.

Posted by sab | Filed under Crafting

Whilst cleaning out my horifically messy room, I found a Tecre button making machine I purchased over a year ago in a fit of convulsive joy about the prospect of creating 1″ buttons. So I ditched the cleaning and tried to make a button, carefully puzzling over the instructions for several minutes.

I ended up with this:

My partner in crime jumped in to try it out himself and got it working!

Here’s a graphic journey showing how we made a button. I’m hoping it will be helpful to someone else trying to make buttons for the first time too! It is more helpful than the 1 page of bollo… photocopied instructions that came with the machine, chiefly because of the photos of each step!

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Read more | Comments (9) | August 13th, 2008