Pumpkin Carving

Happy Halloween guys!

I've been contemplating buying a pumpkin to carve for about two weeks now and then yesterday I thought why the hell not and bought one. Its been a quite a while since i've actually carved a pumpkin, so I looked on Pinterest for some inspiration (as you do). I found this cool idea to use cookie cutters to cut neat shapes out, but it didn't go to plan! I tried to hammer the cookie cutter into the pumpkin, but it wouldn't go through. So instead I used it as a template, and it worked out well :)

You will need: 

• Pumpkin
• Cookie Cutter
• Knife
• Colander
• Big Serving Spoon 

1) Cut the lid out of the pumpkin. This involves a certain amount of wiggling.

2) Once the lid is cut out, you can scoop out the insides of the pumpkin using a big serving spoon. You can discard the seeds or wash and roast them (yummy!) 

3) Using the cookie cutter as template, imprint the cookie cutter shapes onto the pumpkin making a design of your choice. 

4) Carefully cut out the shapes. I suggest cutting out small bits at a time.

5) Once cut out, put a tealight inside the pumpkin sit back and admire your work :)

Hope you enjoy, if you guys carved pumpkins we would love to see them, so please tweet us a picture :)

Don't know what to do with the left over pumpkin seeds? Why not try out my recipe for sweet baked pumpkin seeds.

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D.I.Y~ Halloween mini Pumkin Candles

Hello Internet, April here,

This week I'm going to be showing you how to jazz up your Halloween displays with super cute, munchkin pumpkin candles!
(mouth full)

After pottering about many, many, supermarkets in my local area, hunting high and low for the perfect pumpkin, i finally found these babies,

Munchkin Pumpkins!  Look how adorable!

These little cuties were bought from Waitrose £1 each!

So, after my last candle escapade -Here- i had loads of wax bars left, begging to be used!
and after finding an awesome pin on Pinterest, which for the life of me, i cannot re find, to link,-sorry, i felt totally inspired to create something similar. This is a really unique and simple yet effective decoration for all your halloweeny needs!

This DIY has a make time of half an hour; 

-In depth instructions for candle making can be found here-

• Melt wax via a double boiler,
• Whilst the wax is melting, hollow out your pumpkins,
• Use some sort of Vaseline or petroleum jelly to layer the entire inside of the pumpkin. This aids in keeping the pumpkin fresher for longer,
• Dunk the metal end of the wick in to the melted wax pan then press till set in the bottom of the pumpkin,
• Using a jug, pore in the melted wax till full,
• As wax starts to set, tape the wick in place,
• Place pumpkin in fridge till fully set

And that's munchkin pumpkin candles sorted!

I hope you love this DIY as much as i do, and i cannot even describe the beautiful mixture of vanilla wax with a hint of pumpkin, its delicious!

Toodlepip xx

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