A Bumper Crop of Carvings!

Hello everyone and welcome back to another fine year of competition!

This year's theme of "Animated Characters" drew an eclectic assortment of entries and has really allowed the carvers to let their hair down and stretch their artistic legs.

I thought it would be a steady stream of Mickey Mouse and Frozen Princess's but they have proved me wrong! What I love is that there are no two carvings alike again this year!! With entries from Canada, Denmark and New Zealand, we have three countries representing, and if we wanted to get really technical, we did have carvers from England, Australia and Ireland enter as well;)

So feast your eyes on these fine looking vegetables and look forward to the results!

1. The Great Gazoo wishes you Happy Halloween, dum dums

2. Eating Nemo

3. Spiderman

4. Minion

5. Fred Cailloux got pumpkinified, yabadabadoo!

6. Scar... plotting to rule the Pride Lands

7. Come with me, where dreams are born & time is never planned.
Just think of happy things & your heart will fly on wings forever in Neverland. 

8. ZOINKS Scoob! A guh, guh, guh, GHOST!


9. Rubber duckie you're the one, you make Halloween so much fun!



10. Southern Devil eats everything, including candles


11. Winnie the Pooh, the orange bear


12. You ba$tard$!!! You killed Kenny!!


Each year we hold this competition, it is getting harder and harder to tell the kids carvings apart from the grown-ups. This means one of two things, that I'm going to have to make more participation ribbons, or that we're going to have to let them have a crack at the trophy!! I'm not sure I'm ready to lose to the next generation just yet so I guess I had better start churning out those ribbons!


Robbie - "Lego Man" drawn and carved solo (age 10)
Kyle - Pikachu Trying to destroy team rocket - drawn and carved solo (age 7)
Rebecca - With some help from her Grandma (age 3)
Josephine - Silly Pumpkin Face (age 8)

James - (Age 3?)
Zoe - Pumpkin with the BIG Eyes - she did most of the design and some of the cutting (age 4)
Riley - Pumpkin with different size eyes - drawn and cut pretty much with a little saw by himself (age 4)
Tessa - Who's knocking on my Hearts?" (age 4)
Amy - Rainbow Eve - drawn and painted by Amy, carved by Nana (age 5) 
Angus & Fynn - One sad face, one happy face - Creative control to Angus, carving by Mum (age 2)

Tyler - "Who's There?" - (Age 6)

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