Maternity Pics

Not of me thankfully, but of Jenn.  This was at 33 weeks:

These are at 20 weeks:

Halloween Pumpkins

Another Halloween come and gone.  Thankfully, it was on a Saturday, which gave me enough (barely) time to create my carving patterns and carve the pumpkins.  I was able to step up the overall complexity.  Here are this year's pumpkins.  Check out the Photo Journal link to see pumpkins from previous years.

My unborn son, Megatron Vader Quinn, was this year's inspiration for the pumpkin patterns. And of course, Hello Kitty, for Jenn. Lots of compliments from the parents this year, although most did not recognize Megatron (because most people aren't cool).

Another Halloween, another Hello Kitty pumpkin. I had found the picture for this last year, but like every year, I didn't start turning it into a pumpkin pattern until Halloween afternoon. This one took the longest to carve because of the "shaded" areas. I'm getting better at shading, but it's still not there yet. Maybe next year.

Darth Vader (as if I needed to tell you). I can't believe how well this turned out. It didn't look this good in my dining room. There are some really thin areas, so I doubt it will last more than a day. I had an even better version, but it would have taken too long turning it into a pattern, whereas this one was pretty much done as I found it.

  I had to make a choice between old school Megatron (from the 80's Transformers cartoon) and the "Michael Bay" version. Naturally, I went old school, for three reasons: 1) It required very little conversion work, 2) Who cares if no one else recognizes it, and 3) ALWAYS go old school. The Michael Bay version would've taken me an entire day to convert from a movie poster to a carving pattern, and then carving it would be another 3 hrs. Plus, I probably would've needed a 40lb pumpkin to include the level of detail in that version. This one took about 1.5 hrs to carve, mostly because of how small it is. The pattern/image is only 6"H x 5"W.