Monday, October 27th, 2008
Tasmanian Tiger Spotted in Pittsburgh!
Long thought to be extinct, and to live only in its natural habitat of Southern Australia and the island of Tasmania, a fine specimen of Tasmanian Tiger (aka Thylacine) was spotted and photographed in Pittsburgh! Amazingly it was also in my front yard… during our pumpkin carving party… and it’s wearing a collar… and looks [...]
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
Here comes Halloween… and Pumpkin Carving!
I just redid my pumpkin carving page. If you’re carving a pumpkin and would like some tips, I bet I have a couple that will help you out. The best jack o lantern ever: isn’t that what we all want? This year I think I’m going to do another one with its face on fire, [...]
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Pumpkin Carving Tips & Tricks ebook, Second Edition
Last year I published an ebook on pumpkin carving just barely in time for Halloween at Lulu.com. I just posted the second edition of the book, and this time it’s early enough that it could actually be of use to people in time for Halloween. It’s got more tips, more photos, AND more [...]
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Gearing Up for Halloween and Pumpkin Carving!
I’ve already started thinking about how I’m going to carve my pumpkin, I just can’t quite decide between fire and lasers though…. I’ve also been scheming about how I’m going to scare the snot out of the children in my neighborhood. Good times.
Get Carving Tips and Tricks here, along with photos of the pumpkins I’ve [...]
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Friday, October 27th, 2006
Pumpkin Carving Secrets Revealed!
If you have always wanted to carve the Best Pumpkin in the World you can get in on the action with this book.
Mark Hayward has just released his first eBook: Pumpkin Carving Tips, Tricks and Patterns.
Even if you don’t want to be the Best in the World and just want to carve a better pumpkin [...]
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Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Pumpkin Carving Party
We had our annual pumpking carving party Sunday night, and it was a good time as usual.
Many a good pumpkin was carved, and some new tools were even introduced, including a wood-carving chisel set and a eye-gouger/mellon-baller that Richard brought.
This year my pumpkin was not very intricately carved, this time it was all about the [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Juggling Knives While Carving A Pumpkin
This weekend I had a couple of gigs in the Chicago area, but I went up a day early to participate in a taping for Chicago Public Access Cable TV.
Harper, Matiss and I showed up with a bag full of juggling machetes and two pumpkins.
We carved this one in advance, and the other was to [...]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Christmas Used to Come After Thanksgiving
As a kid, the way I remember it, was that on the day after Thanksgiving all of a sudden you would see the Christmas stuff appear in the stores. Then, as I got older, I remember being offended when the Christmas stuff started appearing before Thanksgiving. Recently, Christmas stuff has made its debut [...]
