New Paltz Halloween 2.0

Celebrated Halloween for the second year in a row! Of course, we did our tradition of carving pumpkins! We each did two pumpkins. Mine were a four-eyed monster and one with lots of sharp, narrow teeth. Marc decided to try the shaving of the pumpkin flesh and play with a smoke bomb in one of his pumpkin's mouth. We had a blast carving them. We also attempted to enter them into The Bakery's Pumpkin Carving Contest...clearly the judges do not know artistic good taste when they see it! haha. Just kidding! But year, we did not win. Next Year is the Year! haha. As for costumes, we were a little late on the planning committee, so it was a good year to reuse what we had in the costume box - a penguin from ski school/gaper day and a twirler from high school. Yup. Do not hate, just enjoy.

TheChristyBel

Our Pumpkins Lit Up

Smoke Bomb!
Also, this temporarily stained our kitchen table cloth!

My Two Favorite Heroines From the Mountain House!

F*ck Couples Costumes!
Happy Halloween from a Twirler and Her Penguin!

Halloween 2015

Snapshots From Halloween 2015! Hey, that rhymed! Haha! Enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

TheChristyBel

Carving Pumpkins with Friends!
From Left to Right: Kim, Noah, Marc, & theChristy

My Scary Looking Pumpkin!

Our Halloween Costumes: Gillian & Garrett Toman
We thought this would be appropriate for us dress up like them because we lived with them for a month!

Garrett & Garrett

Gillian & Gillian

The New Paltz Halloween Parade is RIDICULOUS!
It's a big deal here. The whole town and surrounding towns fill up the streets to celebrate!
A pretty cool experience!

Jack O'Lanterns Time

So when Marc and I went to Boulder (the first time) our friends, Meg and Matt, carved some really awesome pumpkins. So feeling the Halloween Spirit, we bought some carving pumpkins at Whole Foods. It took us, what, two weeks later to actually sit down and carve them. I was studying and doing homework all morning today, and for our 'Brain Break' we decided to sit down and plan out what to carve, and actually carve our pumpkins! Made a pit stop at Safeway to buy a pumpkin carving kit and got back to plan what we were going to do.

It was so nice out, that we carved our pumpkins outside my apartment! Marc decided to carve out a scary Jack O'Lantern face, named Fred, while I wanted to draw out an owl. Marc found a really cool idea online and so I just free-hand drew it from the screen. Check out our process and photos! And!!!! Our FINISHED Products! We were totally excited to light them this evening when it got super dark out! Enjoy!

The Blue Prints for Our Pumpkins

Taking Out the Seeds...the Gross Part!

Carving Time!

The Finished Products?!
We Have a Potential Career in Pumpkin Carving, Right?

My Owl!

Fred, the Scary Jack O'Lantern

The Night Glowing-Finale!

Happy Early Halloween!
TheChristyBel