I guess it could be considered a Twilight tribute...

Pumpkin carving tends to be one of those festive activities- like making gingerbread houses or dying easter eggs- that always sounds fun to me in theory but when it comes to actually doing it I lose interest in about 2.5 seconds and sit around distracting everyone around me, usually while eating sickening amounts of candy.

Maybe this is because my immigrant family wasn’t too big on these holiday projects. I think we carved pumpkins all together once in an attempt to be festive, but after that we just had one family jack-o-lantern carved by whoever felt the most motivated that year and called it good.

The Cassitys, on the other hand, are all about the seasonal crafts. They make ornaments at Christmastime, dye eggs for Easter, and, of course, carve pumpkins when Halloween rolls around. The first time I participated in the annual Cassity pumpkin carving night was two years ago when Mike and I were engaged. By the time I had hollowed out and cleaned the pumpkin my craft ADD was really up and going, so I grabbed the simplest looking stencil I could find and went to town (yes, they had stencils. And special pumpkin carving tools. The Cassitys don’t mess around).

I probably should have paid a little more attention to how I positioned the stencil though, because what was supposed to be a frightening image of a vampire biting someone turned out to be a little…well…erotic in feel:

Yep, I unintentionally created Pumpkin Porn. Awesome. I think I am going to keep things a little more simple this year:


Because apparently I can't be trusted to keep it G-rated otherwise.