My post today is brought to you with thanks to Sian over at High in the Sky.
I posted this during halloween week never dreaming it would be OK to post it as part of Sian’s Story Telling Sunday. Now if Sian says it’s OK by her then OK it must be.
Lotta has been visiting and she had a yen to carve a pumpkin. We went off in search of the perfect specimen.
Now everyone who knows me knows how fussy and indecisive I can be. Well let me tell you I am a dream to work with compared to our Lotta.
Lotta is in her last year of University and like most students she is nocturnal. She sleeps during the day and studies during the late afternoon and on into the very late evening.
I began to think I would be chief pumpkin carver again this year as it was nearing time for her to leave.
And then…
One dark and stormy night, in the smallest darkest hours… she began to carve the pumpkin. She sat all alone at the kitchen table, she chipped and sliced and scooped her way into the beautiful orange beast.
The following morning I was thrilled to see that she had carved a lovely tree into the pumpkin and it looked fabulous!
And then it happened again… in the following darkest, quietest, smallest hours she chipped and chopped and sliced and scooped further into the beautiful orange beast.
Now we had a house next to the tree!
My goodness I was beside myself with joy and wonder. A beautiful scene carved into our pumpkin. I was texting everyone in my phone book!
As if that wasn’t enough the following night she toiled again, carefully cutting, chipping, slicing more and more detail into the beautiful orange beast.
It was beautiful enough in the day but when we lit it during another dark and stormy evening…..Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! (there were four of us) Even the dog came to investigate and I am certain that in her head she thought wow!
And I thought pumpkins just got faces!
Wishing you a lovely Story Telling and Story Reading Sunday.
Definitely much more than ok – I mean, look at it, it’s stunning!
Oh wow, perfect pumpkins and perfect story to go with it. Young people are odd aren’t they sometimes. My young girl suddenly made a chocolate cake and iced it the day before yesterday with no help. It was darned nice too. She didn’t wash up.
Great to read your story.
wonderful carving
That is truly stunning!!
Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! is just about right. What a talented girl she is. I’ll simply add my own personal Wow! to her collection.
All I made with our pumpkin was some jam and some chutney.
Yey, I thought it would be great for here! And they really are wonderfully done …
Well worth revisiting! It got another ‘wow’ from me, even though I’d seen it before! 🙂
Very appropriate!
Alison xx
This is really impressive – I am sure that a lot of creative genius’ work best at night!
What an artist!
Do the carving pumpkins have a really thin skin? I ask because no pumpkins grown here are soft enough to carve.
Oh pretty – very talented. One of my friends lives in the US and her town has the world championships of pumpkin carving. Didn’t realize there was such a thing 🙂
What a stunning job she did! Quite handy with a knife!
What a wonderful pumpkin – simply stunning!
A perfect story for today!
Rinda
Wow, that’s some serious carving. I’d say her attention to detail paid off. Wow, I say too!
wow I love the intricate carving on that pumpkin!! Great story.
That is a very cool pumpkin! It was worth the wait for it 🙂 And a great story.
now THAT is one beautiful pumpkin~!!!~
🙂
libbyQ