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Pumpkin Carving - Tips, Tools, Patterns, Etc ...

Instructions and How-To-Guide:

• Pumpkin Carving 101
• Pumpkin Carving Made Easy from Readers Digest

Free Carving Patterns:

• Hershey's TrickorTreat.com - a nice collection of easy, intermediate and advanced designs
• SpookMaster - Five free patriotic patterns, and there will be an additional daily freebie each day from October 24 through 31 (or at least that's what they didi in 2004).
• PC Jack-O-Lantern - George Bush and John Kerry portrait designs
• Fun-Kins - has several free patterns, including a ghost, a pirate ship and a skull

Carving Kits:

• Disney Patterns - every year, Disney comes out with a carving kit, with tools and patterns ... this year the kit is based on The Nightmare Before Christmas ... go to DisneyDirect and search for "pumpkin"

Other:

• Funkins - These are realistic foam pumpkins that are designed to be carved bu you just like a real pumpkin
• to add some variety to your pumpkin display, consider carving some gourds ... DoomBuggyProductions.com has tips and ideas ... go to "Holiday Decorations" in "At Home Imagineering"
• Cats from Acorn Squash - Readers Digest

eBay Marketplace Searches:

• Pumpkin Masters - this is the company that makes the Disney kits, and many of the other ones you see in stores
• Pumpkin Carving - this search brings the most results ... the following searches give more specialized results
  • Candles
  • CD's - Use these to design your own patterns
  • Cherished Teddies - collectible includes a carving kit
  • Disney Sets - Cinderella / Mickey / Monsters Inc / Pooh / Toy Story
  • Dremel - Electric Carving Tool
  • Electric Carving Knife
  • Funkins - carvable foam pumpkins (or try searching for Fun-Kins)
  • Patterns
  • Tools
  • Williams Sonoma