Adventures in Cheater-Art
My mother called last week and invited me over on Sunday to visit.

Little did I realize this was a clever trap to get me to carve her pumpkin for her contest at work. D:

I haven't carved a pumpkin in 10 years, and when I did it was of the "Triangle eyes and jagged teeth" variety. But Mom had her web browser open to all these amaaazing pumpkins and I'm like "I may do creative stuff, but vegetable is not my usual medium of choice". Oh Mom. ^_^

Anyway, we (I) managed something okay anyways, leaving no dead pumpkin soldiers in my wake. :)



(Mom lost an eye to cancer 25 years ago, so we were going for the Cripple Vote in the contest ;) She lost the carving contest but won Employee of the Quarter, so I think it all evens out.)


Then tonight I tried out my knitting loom (because I'm waaaaaay too tense for regular knitting) and spent 2 episodes of Heroes and 1 and a half episodes of Supernatural making this:


Pretty cute for a few hour's work!