Well today I brought my husband Edward Wimberley with us.
Edward is an artist, and I thought we would get him
to do one of his famous jack-o-lanterns.
Edward, thanks for coming.
I went to the farmer's market and got this
and I think you've done part of the hard work already.
Yeah, everybody knows what a mess it is.
I've already pulled all the seeds out of it.
I cut a whole in the top.
Okay, so that part is done.
That part is done.
I'm gonna save the seeds because I like to toast them, don't you?
Yes, yeah you've always done that.
One of the benefits but we usually don't make pie.
One of the delights of pumpkin.
Anyway, well I'm gonna move these out of the way
and then we're gonna let you start working
your magic on this jack-o-lantern.
Alright,I've got a nice little knife here
and that's what you need to carve a pumpkin with,
a nice little knife with a kind of narrow blade
because that way you can make curves.
I'm not a fancy pumpkin carver.
I'm a traditionalist, you know, so this is just gonna be
a jack-o-lantern with eyes and a nose and stuff like that.
So on the other hand I'm interested in,
always have taken a clue from the Japanese Noh theater
because they have such interesting and extreme
expressions on their masks. So I'm gonna give it
a little bit of a turn like that.
And then I'm going to cut the eyes and the nose and eyebrows.
This is where having a knife with a narrow blade in it
comes in handy because you can cut little circles like that.
I'm going to give this pumpkin a tongue
and I'm making the tongue out of this dobby squash here.
There we go.
One time when we had our first house in St. Matthews
I had great success with pumpkin like this with the tongue.
Amanda would take our children
trick-or-treating and I was left at home.
I had a pumpkin and...
I had an old pumpkin that had grown up in the side yard
but it was way before Thanksgiving,
I mean before Halloween and it rotted,
well that is to say it got a rotten spot in it.
So I had a pumpkin to carve and I had
this half of a pumpkin that was...
so I decided that I would take half of the pumpkin
and make ears and a tongue.
And I did that and when I couldn't get through
when I was finishing up, I couldn't get the tongue
to stay on the pumpkin. I put the pumpkin down
the porch so I took the knife that I was carving with,
and stuck it through the tongue into the porch floor
to hold the tongue in place and the little children
who came trick-or- treating around were very impressed,
let me tell you. It was one of the most
successful pumpkins I ever did. All right.
It's hard to get those pieces out. There we go.
The Japanese are always emphasizing the corners
of the mouth to make it look like the characters
are under great stress so...
Alright, what do you think of that?
I think it'd be fun if we showed everybody
what you do to try to look scary too.
Would you be willing to put your costume on for us?
Sure. 68 00:06:06,833 Boo!