Nothing like waiting until the last minute

I have some serious blogging to catch up on, but I wanted to post our 2008 Jack-O-Lantern. I did the whole thing myself (Jason is off on a morale-boosting fun fest for work). The kids wanted to be involved, but slicing a irregularly shaped giant pumpkin, with slimy pumpkin innards dripping from my hands with a very large butcher knife can be dangerous when my kids want to peer into the gaping pumpkin hole. I made them stand back and work on the sugar pumpkins. As always, they were happy to oblige where there is glue and glitter involved. Yeah, glitter. What the heck was I thinking?

So we think it came out pretty good. And yes, that is indeed a star shaped nose. We originally decided on an inverted triangle nose, but after I drew the outline, we concluded it looked too much like a cat nose. So I did the regular Jack-O-lantern nose, but then there was the issue of the marker lines from the cat nose sketch. So Addie, ever the problem-solver, suggested the star nose to cover them up. And thus, it was so.