I gave in and tried something new this year...foam pumpkin carving. It's so not-traditional and makes me feel like a traitor to the real pumpkins sitting in boxes in front of the grocery stores, but a $50 fake pumpkin on sale for $15 at Jo-Ann Fabric was too good to pass up. (Those savings, right?!) My main reason for wanting one this year was because I just don't have time to carve a real pumpkin with Mr. Jetty Jettson running around everywhere and having to chase after him with pumpkin guts all over my hands...especially because my typical carvings take an average of 4 hours! We moms just don't have that kind of time to block out. So, spending $15 on a no-gut pumpkin sounded like a worthy investment, and I'm happy to report it was. I can't say it really was that much easier to carve with my profesh carving set I bought a couple of years ago, but I did like how smooth my carving lines were afterwards and the one mistake I made was easily fixed with superglue instead of toothpicks. What I am most proud of is having a permanent pumpkin to display every year alongside my real pumpkins and very much like that it can be in my home lit up instead of shunned to the cold porch.
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